How do I avoid the stray error when compiling a c program with the library pdcurses?

Question

I was working on a c program with code blocks on windows when I realized i needed the pdcurses library so downloaded it and build it but after importing it into code blocks, when I ran a test code, I got these errors :

the code is:

#include <stdio.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <pdcurses.a>

int main(){

    initsrc();

    printw("Hello world!\n");
    refresh();
    getch();

    endwin();
    return 0;
}

can someone help me resolve this please?

Answer 1

A file with an extension of ".a" is a library file, which is binary. You don't include that in your code with #include.

What you should do instead is #include the header file(s) associated with this library, then link in the library file in the project configuration.