diff --git a/Ports/ncurses/package.sh b/Ports/ncurses/package.sh
index bd8b6fa8bc..121317c50f 100755
--- a/Ports/ncurses/package.sh
+++ b/Ports/ncurses/package.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ configopts=(
     "--with-pkg-config-libdir=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig"
     "--with-shared"
     "--without-ada"
+    "--enable-widec"
+    "--disable-lib-suffixes"
 )
 files="https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-${version}.tar.gz ncurses-${version}.tar.gz 30306e0c76e0f9f1f0de987cf1c82a5c21e1ce6568b9227f7da5b71cbea86c9d"
 auth_type="sha256"