Curses/CLion workflow recommendations

I've wanted to do something with the Curses library for a very long time now because I have an odd fascination with text-based user interfaces. Call it nostalgia.  

However, I've always found working with Curses in Jetbrains IDEs to be problematic. The embedded terminal doesn't seem to work well with text-based user interfaces and I can't find a way to easily launch my compiled program in an external terminal window. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

Does anybody have any recommendations for a way to write and debug Curses based programs with CLion?