diff --git a/config/check_depend.cmake b/config/check_depend.cmake
index d70d4bf..d12e60c 100644
--- a/config/check_depend.cmake
+++ b/config/check_depend.cmake
@@ -29,11 +29,20 @@ OPTION( BUILD_TESTS "Turn me off to disable compilation of all tests" OFF )
 
 find_package( Curses )
 IF ( CURSES_INCLUDE_DIR )
-    MESSAGE("-- Looking for libncurses - found")
+    MESSAGE("-- Looking for curses implementation - found libncurses")
     SET( CURSES 1 CACHE INTERNAL "libncurses" )
+    SET( CURSES_IMPL ncurses)
 ELSE ( CURSES_INCLUDE_DIR )
-    MESSAGE("-- Looking for libncurses - not found")
-    SET( CURSES 0 CACHE INTERNAL "libncurses" )
+    FIND_PATH( CURSES_INCLUDE_DIR termcap.h )
+    IF ( CURSES_INCLUDE_DIR )
+      MESSAGE("-- Looking for curses implementation - found termcap")
+      FIND_LIBRARY(CURSES_LIBRARY termcap )
+      SET( CURSES 1 CACHE INTERNAL "libncurses" )
+      SET( CURSES_IMPL termcap)
+    ELSE ( CURSES_INCLUDE_DIR  )
+      MESSAGE("-- Looking for curses implementation - not found")
+      SET( CURSES 0 CACHE INTERNAL "libncurses" )
+    ENDIF ( CURSES_INCLUDE_DIR )
 ENDIF ( CURSES_INCLUDE_DIR )
 
 FIND_PATH( READLINE_H readline/readline.h )
diff --git a/taskbrowser/CMakeLists.txt b/taskbrowser/CMakeLists.txt
index 6d26697..86dc628 100644
--- a/taskbrowser/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/taskbrowser/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ IF ( BUILD_TASKBROWSER )
 
       # readline only depends on curses on unixes, not on mingw/msvc
       if (UNIX)
-        OROCOS_PKGCONFIG_LIBS(ncurses readline)
+        OROCOS_PKGCONFIG_LIBS(readline ${CURSES_IMPL})
         INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES( ${READLINE_INCLUDE_DIR} ${CURSES_INCLUDE_DIR} )
         TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES( orocos-taskbrowser ${READLINE_LIBRARY} ${CURSES_LIBRARY} )
       else(UNIX)