title: How to install PDCurses with MinGW on Windows?
body: <p>I have looked all over the internet for installation instructions but could not find one that actually worked. I have downloaded the MinGW-Get application as stated in many websites, but have no idea how to use it. I did find a website with the following instructions:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>HOW TO INSTALL: </p>
    
    <p>Install an ide on your windows machine, I’ll use the simple Dev-Cpp.</p>
    
    <p>Download this zip containing the files you’ll need.</p>
    
    <p>Create a folder called pdcurses and another one called include, inside
    of it.</p>
    
    <p>Extract panel.h and curses.h in the include fold.</p>
    
    <p>Extract the .dll file in the pdcurses one.</p>
    
    <p>Now open your ide and set the 32-bit version compiler as the default
    one.</p>
    
    <p>Create a new project, set it up.</p>
    
    <p>On the lefty Treeview, right click on the project icon -> project
    options</p>
    
    <p>Go to -> Parameters  tab-> Linker -> insert in its box the path to the
    .dll file you extracted before</p>
    
    <p>Go to -> Files/folders tab</p>
    
    <p>Here you’ll see three inner tabs named: Libraries/Includes/resources
    folders; inside each of them you have to insert the path to the
    include folder you created before.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Source: <a href="https://hastalafiesta.altervista.org/setup-pdcurses-windows-devcpp/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hastalafiesta.altervista.org/setup-pdcurses-windows-devcpp/</a></p>
  
  <p>However, I could not find the .dll or a library file in the PDCurses folder I extracted from the .zip file I downloaded from <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdcurses/files/pdcurses/3.4/pdc34dllw.zip/download" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdcurses/files/pdcurses/3.4/pdc34dllw.zip/download</a> (as stated in the fifth step). I just got started with C++ and libraries and would appreciate it if anyone could provide me some guidance or any useful links.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/HcV65.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/HcV65.jpg" alt="Edit: This is inside the folder I extracted from sourceforge."></a></p>