@Werner, if it is not possible to enable them from ncurses I'll redefine them inside the perl-Curses package. Just for reference, here is the list of all not found symbols: function 'wattr_get' NOT found function 'color_content' NOT found function 'pair_content' NOT found function 'getyx' NOT found function 'getparyx' NOT found function 'getbegyx' NOT found function 'getmaxyx' NOT found function 'getsyx' NOT found function 'mousemask' NOT found function 'wmouse_trafo' NOT found function 'flusok' NOT found function 'getcap' NOT found function 'touchoverlap' NOT found function 'menu_format' NOT found function 'scale_menu' NOT found function 'menu_spacing' NOT found function 'scale_form' NOT found function 'field_info' NOT found function 'dynamic_field_info' NOT found Of course, not all symbols are needed and some of them are already deprecated.