FreeBSD build fails, -fPIC option?

[mutkach]

Hi! Firstly, let me say thanks to you for great work, it is very much appreciated.
I've been using brick on Linux for some time now, but my current OS is FreeBSD (-13.2 Release). I would appreciate any directions for fixing the problem myself.
Building vty-unix fails with a following error:

/usr/local/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libtinfow.a(lib_cur_term.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against symbol `ttytype' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
`gcc' failed in phase `Linker'. (Exit code: 1)
CallStack (from HasCallStack):
  withMetadata, called at src/Distribution/Simple/Utils.hs:368:14 in Cabal-3.10.2.1-inplace:Distribution.Simple.Utils
Error: cabal: Failed to build vty-unix-0.2.0.0-inplace.

cabal: 3.6.2.0, 3.10.2.0
GHC: 9.8.1

Adding -fPIC to ghc-options in vty-unix.cabal does not seem to change matters a bit. Maybe I'm doing it wrong? Any other ideas to try?

[jtdaugherty]

This seems bizarre to me. vty-unix uses the same C sources that were previously bundled with vty (prior to version 6) so I'm wondering if you've ever had success building vty on FreeBSD prior to version 6.

Googling the error yielded only one result that leads me to wonder if ncurses needs to be compiled with --enable-shared as indicated there..

[mutkach]

Thanks for the quick response. I tried rebuilding ncurses with different combinations of flags - with no luck for now. Though I might have missed something. Will keep trying and maybe something will come of it.