Compilation error on macosx [curses.h] about ncmpcpp HOT 9 CLOSED

What happens if you add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 to your CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS?

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With -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 I have same errors but..
I added -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED to CXXFLAGS and it works. I can make pull request with changes but I don't sure that is cross platform solution. Could you check it?
And second thing:
Does ncmpcpp really depends on ICU? Because I configured the project with ICU_CFLAGS=trash ICU_LIBS=trash and it works (to avoid errors because I don't have icu libraries in pkg-config).
May be we should remove the dependency?

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With -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 I have same errors but..
I added -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED to CXXFLAGS and it works. I can make pull request with changes but I don't sure that is cross platform solution. Could you check it?

That it weird, from man feature_test_macros:

_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
              If  this  macro  is defined, and _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined, then expose
              definitions corresponding to the XPG4v2 (SUSv1) UNIX extensions  (UNIX
              95).   This  macro  is  also  implicitly  defined  if _XOPEN_SOURCE is
              defined with a value of 500 or more.

So something fishy is going on there. Also, because of the above, defining _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED explicitly is definitely not a good general way to solve it.

ncmpcpp should depend on ICU only if boost was compiled with ICU. Does configure fail if ICU is not installed?

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/*
 * With XPG4, you must define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, it is redundant (or
 * conflicting) when _XOPEN_SOURCE is 500 or greater.
 */
#undef NCURSES_WIDECHAR
#if defined(_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED) || defined(_XPG5)
#define NCURSES_WIDECHAR
#endif

It is from my /usr/local/Cellar/ncurses/5.9/include/ncursesw/curses.h. And I see "you must define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED"

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and after the comma it says exactly what I pasted above.

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Yes.

defining _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED explicitly is definitely not a good general way to solve it.

So what is the good way? I'm not familiar with this feature_test_macros_magic.

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I have no idea. I'm also not familiar with it, what I wrote is just what I found after checking out yesterday the fragment of curses.h you pasted.

You can locally define XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED if for some reason it's not defined by XOPEN_SOURCE.

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I managed that it happens because there is no features.h on macosx. This feature_test_macros_magic is in the header. So I'll pass XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED to homebrew formula (macosx package manager). You can close the issue. Thanks.

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I still need to add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED in order to build ncmpcpp 0.7.1 on macosx El Capitan. Is this the correct way?

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