Static Linking Cursive/ncurses in Rust - linux

Question

I am trying to create a statically linked executable for a rust project that uses Cursive (with ncurses as backend). I installed the libraries for ncurses-devel, ncurses-static, ncurses-lib as well as did
rustup target add x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
When I try to compile the project using:
RUSTFLAGS='-C link-arg=-s' cargo build --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
cargo fails with the error:
error: failed to run custom build command for `ncurses v5.101.0`
Caused by:
process didn't exit successfully: `/vagrant_data/rust-cli-example/target/release/build/ncurses-9d002170cebb3401/build-script-build` (exit status: 101)
--- stdout
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=NCURSESW5_NO_PKG_CONFIG
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_CROSS_x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_CROSS_x86_64_unknown_linux_musl
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=TARGET_PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_CROSS
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_CROSS
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64_unknown_linux_musl
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=TARGET_PKG_CONFIG
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64_unknown_linux_musl
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=TARGET_PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=NCURSESW_NO_PKG_CONFIG
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_CROSS_x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_CROSS_x86_64_unknown_linux_musl
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=TARGET_PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_CROSS
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_ALLOW_CROSS
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64_unknown_linux_musl
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=TARGET_PKG_CONFIG
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64_unknown_linux_musl
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=TARGET_PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
cargo:rustc-link-lib=ncursesw
OPT_LEVEL = Some("3")
TARGET = Some("x86_64-unknown-linux-musl")
HOST = Some("x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")
CC_x86_64-unknown-linux-musl = None
CC_x86_64_unknown_linux_musl = None
TARGET_CC = None
CC = None
CROSS_COMPILE = None
CFLAGS_x86_64-unknown-linux-musl = None
CFLAGS_x86_64_unknown_linux_musl = None
TARGET_CFLAGS = None
CFLAGS = None
CRATE_CC_NO_DEFAULTS = None
DEBUG = Some("false")
CARGO_CFG_TARGET_FEATURE = Some("fxsr,sse,sse2")
--- stderr
/vagrant_data/rust-cli-example/target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/release/build/ncurses-7d3468c31a087559/out/chtype_size.c:6:10: fatal error: ncurses.h: No such file or directory
6 | #include <ncurses.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
thread 'main' panicked at 'assertion failed: command.status().expect(\"compilation failed\").success()', /home/vagrant/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/ncurses-5.101.0/build.rs:105:5
Can someone please guide me in what needs to be done to get this to compile?