I went back to a much older version to avoid issues with widechar support and it compiled&linked without problems (*hooooray*)
Starting it results in : "Error opening terminal: unknown." which I traced down to initscr().
So do I need to something special to get curses running ? Use a special con-device ? Set the Shell to obscure mode ???
Edit: I also downloaded "cmatrix" from my best friend (tm) and it shows the same message. There is also something about having to install "tux goes morphos" which I'd rather avaoid ;)