wmcbrine/PDCurses

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

PDCurses is a public domain curses library implementing most X/Open and System V R4 curses functions for platforms that don't fit the termcap/terminfo model, such as DOS, OS/2, Windows console, X11, and SDL. It allows existing text-mode curses programs to be recompiled as GUI applications via its X11 and SDL ports.

Use cases

• build text-mode user interfaces on Windows console
• port ncurses programs to Windows
• compile curses apps as GUI applications with X11 or SDL
• write TUI programs for DOS or OS/2
• develop cross-platform terminal-style applications in C

When to choose

• you need curses functionality on Windows, DOS, OS/2, X11, or SDL where ncurses isn't available
• you want to recompile existing curses programs as GUI apps
• you need a public-domain, permissively licensed curses implementation

When to avoid

• you're targeting Unix terminals where ncurses is the standard
• you need modern graphical UI widgets rather than text-mode interfaces
• you require a project with an explicit license file and active large community

Facets

library · maturity stable

gui terminal-ui cross-platform developer-tools desktop-applications windows cross-platform cpp c curses tui text-user-interface public-domain dos os2 x11 sdl

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