diff -r 8cf704f4cffa configure.ac
--- a/configure.ac	Thu Oct 15 23:52:32 2020 +0000
+++ b/configure.ac	Thu Oct 15 23:52:58 2020 +0000
@@ -16,6 +16,6 @@
 
 # Checks for libraries.
-AC_CHECK_LIB([ncurses], [initscr])
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES([NCURSES], [ncurses], [], [exit 1])
 
 # I18N
 AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.14.5])
diff -r e64ba00e0147 src/Makefile.am
--- a/src/Makefile.am	Fri Oct 16 00:08:17 2020 +0000
+++ b/src/Makefile.am	Fri Oct 16 00:08:39 2020 +0000
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 	-DCONFIGFILE=\"$(sysconfdir)/typespeedrc\" \
         -DHIGHFILE=\"$(highscoredir)/$(HIGHFILE)\" \
 	-DWORDDIR=\"$(WORDDIR)\" -DRULEDIR=\"$(RULEDIR)\"
-typespeed_LDADD = @LIBINTL@
+typespeed_LDADD = @LIBINTL@ @NCURSES_LIBS@
 typespeed_SOURCES = file.c gettext.h menu.c misc.c network.c pathnames.h \
 	    typespeed.c typespeed.h
 
diff -r 987ceebc438f testsuite/Makefile.am
--- a/testsuite/Makefile.am	Fri Oct 16 00:14:34 2020 +0000
+++ b/testsuite/Makefile.am	Fri Oct 16 00:15:37 2020 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 localedir = $(datadir)/locale
 AM_CPPFLAGS = -DLOCALEDIR=\"$(localedir)\" -DTVERSION=\"v$(VERSION)\" -DTEST
-LDADD = @LIBINTL@
+LDADD = @LIBINTL@ @NCURSES_LIBS@
 
 EXTRA_DIST = t_unescstr.sh t_loadwords_data/3_empty