Re: [Mingw-users] getopt for Windows

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Luke Dunstan wrote:
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>> From: "Don Sutter" <dr...@su...>
>> To: <Min...@li...>
>> Subject: [Mingw-users] getopt for Windows
>> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:18:52 -0700
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> getopt, or perhaps I should say the lack of getopt, in the Windows 
>> environment seems to be somewhat of a recuring theme.  I thought it 
>> would be easy to find a current copy of getopt.c and just port it to 
>> Windows myself but it seems to be quite the ellusive creature.  Does 
>> anyone know where that ellusive critter lives?  I thought I would be 
>> able to find it through GNU but I must have missed something.
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> You probably want the version of getopt in GNU libc. For a smaller 
> download you could instead get GNU gengetopt, which includes a copy of 
> getopt.c from GNU libc. Building gengetopt with "configure && make" is 
> also an easy way to compile getopt, and no porting is required.
> 

Which comes in libiberty.a; however, the getopt.h isn't shipped.  I've 
an idea I'll discuss with the developers.

Earnie.