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I don't know how keen you are on using C, but there's an excellent open Roguelike library for Python, with a whole community round it. The subreddit is pretty active..

http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Complete_Roguelike...

thanks for the link I didn't know about this project. However here it's specifically a project to learn C :) but your link is still full a useful information (notably their dungeon generation algorithm )

I haven't looked into roguelike game dev in a long time, but libtcod [0] used to be the gold standard, especially among 7DRLs because it gives you so much to start with so you get to focus on what makes your game interesting.

[0] https://github.com/libtcod/libtcod

Notcurses is ok, not great.

Tickit[1] is much nicer, and comes with what is possibly the only good way of reading modifier characters from a terminal (seriously).

Alternately, if you're ok with not running in a terminal, check out bearlibterminal[2].

1: http://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libtickit/

2: http://foo.wyrd.name/en:bearlibterminal