/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncursesw "libcursesw"

[ajaygautam2]

Hi,
I am compiling a 3rd party code on Ubuntu Machine and i am getting following error:
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2 -m32 conf.o zconf.tab.o -lncursesw -o conf
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncursesw
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Already i did below:
1. Installed sudo apt-get install libncursesw5-dev
2. Created soft link also:
sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcursesw.so
sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcursesw.so
sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 /usr/lib/libcursesw.so

still i am getting same above error.
Can anybody please help me?

Thanks
Ajay

[steeldriver]

Since you are building a 32-bit executable (-m32), you probably need to explicitly install the libncursesw5-dev:i386 package, no?

Manually symlinking things should not be necessary

[ajaygautam2]

Thanks,
That problem is solved but after some time again i am getting:
Build dependency: Please install ncurses. (Missing libncurses.so or ncurses.h)

even i installed :
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev:i386
and created soft link also.