‘mvwin_wchnstr’ was not declared in this scope when compiling lnav

lnav is a great log file viewer. To use its latest features, we need to fetch the source code and compile manually.
When compiling lnav using make, following error is appeared

listview_curses.cc: In member function ‘virtual void listview_curses::do_update()’:
listview_curses.cc:293:76: error: ‘mvwin_wchnstr’ was not declared in this scope
             mvwin_wchnstr(this->lv_window, y, this->lv_x, row_ch, width - 1);
                                                                            ^
listview_curses.cc:297:77: error: ‘mvwadd_wchnstr’ was not declared in this scope
             mvwadd_wchnstr(this->lv_window, y, this->lv_x, row_ch, width - 1);

I have installed all requirements stated in documentation.

Solution

The lnav documentation only said ncurses library is needed, but not mention which version.
My current installed ncurses library is libncurses5-dev. Changing to libncursesw5-dev fixed this issue.

apt install libncursesw5-dev

(This command is for apt package manager, please change to corresponding command according to the package manager you use.)

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