Kotlin/Native adding c library ncurses via Cinterop-CodePudding

I have been trying to add ncurses to Kotlin/Native using cinterop, but this error shows up:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: /usr/include/stdint.h:26:10: fatal error: 'bits/libc-header-start.h' file not found

I checked and I have this file installed in this path.

this is my code:

src/nativeInterop/cinterop:

headers = ncurses.h
headerFilter = ncurses.h

compilerOpts.linux = -I/usr/include -I/usr/include
linkerOpts.linux = -L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lncurses

build.gradle.kts

plugins {
    kotlin("multiplatform") version "1.6.10"
}

group = "org.example"
version = "1.0-SNAPSHOT"

kotlin {
    val hostOs = System.getProperty("os.name")
    val isMingwX64 = hostOs.startsWith("Windows")
    val nativeTarget = when {
        hostOs == "Mac OS X" -> macosX64("native")
        hostOs == "Linux" -> linuxX64("native")
        isMingwX64 -> mingwX64("native")
        else -> throw GradleException("Host OS is not supported in Kotlin/Native.")
    }

    nativeTarget.apply {
        compilations["main"].cinterops {
            val ncurses by creating {
                when(preset) {
                    presets["linuxX64"] -> includeDirs.headerFilterOnly("/usr/include", "/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu")
                }
            }
        }
        binaries {
            executable {
                entryPoint = "main"
            }
        }
    }

    sourceSets {
        val nativeMain by getting
        val nativeTest by getting
    }
}

CodePudding user response：

It looks like your include filter might be too strict. Try adding the parent directory of that header file to your cinterop file. On my Ubuntu install, it's in /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu, but that's not listed in your compilerOpts.

Another note -- is there a reason to have -I/usr/include listed twice in your file?