How do I use PDCurses after having installed it?

[miss-programgamer]

My question is fairly straightforward: After having installed pdcurses via vcpkg, how do I actually use it in one of my project's CmakeLists.txt? I can't seem to find_package it under the names PDCurses, Curses, PDC, or similar. The portfile doesn't make it clear what the package is named either:

https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/ports/pdcurses/portfile.cmake

Plus, when I install other packages, a short snippet for how they should be included into projects is printed. For instance, SDL2 tells you to do find_package(SDL2 CONFIG REQUIRED) and then target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE SDL2::SDL2 SDL2::SDL2main). This instruction is conspicuously missing when I install PDCurses.

I've confirmed that this is not a CMake configuration issue by doing a clean reconfigure and finding SDL2, which DOES work.

So, again, how do I include PDCurses?

[JackBoosY]

Because PDCurses did not export any cmake files.
Therefore, you need to add some custom code, for example:

find_path(pdcurses_INCLUDES curses.h)
find_library(pdcurses pdcurses REQUIRED)

target_include_directories(${PROJECT} PRIVATE ${pdcurses_INCLUDES})
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT} PRIVATE pdcurses)

[miss-programgamer]

Well, that's disappointing. At least you solved my problem, so thanks.

For future readers though, it should actually be the following:

find_path(PDC_INCLUDES curses.h)
find_library(PDC_LIBS pdcurses REQUIRED)

target_include_directories(${PROJECT} PRIVATE ${PDC_INCLUDES})
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT} PRIVATE ${PDC_LIBS})

[JackBoosY]

@programgamer-real This is because the official does not support this feature, can you make this request to the official?

[miss-programgamer]

@JackBoosY Sure, should I make a new issue for this?

[JackBoosY]

@programgamer-real Yes, could you report it to the official?

[DeepspaceFreelancer]

For me these were the lines:

find_path(pdcurses_INCLUDES curses.h)
find_library(pdcurses pdcurses REQUIRED)
include_directories(${pdcurses_INCLUDES})

and for linking:

target_link_libraries(${CMAKE_PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE pdcurses)

Used this for include in the main.cpp:

#include <pdcurses.h>