meson.build: fallback libncurses detection without pkg-config

Previously, failure to find libncurses was silently ignored, leading
to compiler or linker errors.

Closes #6

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9e7b11c7d7c58ba59766cdd132022f372f7208a2..bf9ea584b3fc305be354749288217b3c55920cff 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ ncmpc 0.29 - not yet released
 * fix crash after losing MPD connection
 * fix crash after DNS lookup error
 * add Meson option "lyrics_plugin_dir"
+* fallback libncurses detection without pkg-config
 
 ncmpc 0.28 - (2017-09-21)
 * fix crash on lyrics screen

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 428e41e3b45156e5cae210124f8972a62fb93992..bc1b5e2f8695b09373d5196259462d48a48d5bbf 100644 (file)
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ else
     if curses_dep.found()
       curses = 'ncurses'
     else
+      curses_dep = cc.find_library('ncursesw', required: false)
+      if not curses_dep.found()
+        curses_dep = cc.find_library('ncurses')
+      endif
+
       # TODO: find other curses implementation (pdcurses?)
     endif
   endif