System packages

Some Genero BDL features need specific operating system packages.

Curses (or NCurses) library

On Unix-like platforms, the Genero runtime system (fglrun) needs the Curses library to be installed on the system.

The Curses library is required for the text mode (for INFORMIXTERM=terminfo).

Depending on the operating system, fglrun will require libcurses, libncurses, libncurses5, or libncursesw5.
Note: For UTF-8 support in text mode, you need the libncursesw5 package. Make sure that the Curses software package installed on your system includes this library. See Platform specific notes.
If the required Curses library is not installed, executing fglrun will report this kind of error:
fglrun: error while loading shared libraries:
   libncursesw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory