RE: [ros-kernel] Status of building Wine under Cygwin/Mingw

[Robert C. <rob...@it...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francois Gouget [mailto:fg...@fr...]=20
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 6:15 AM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: Ste...@ya...; win...@wi...; ReactOS-Kernel
> Subject: RE: [ros-kernel] Status of building Wine under Cygwin/Mingw
>=20
>=20
> On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Robert Collins wrote:
> [...]
> > > 4. add -liberty to the makefile for wrc and wmc. This is needed=20
> > > because of getopt and optarg
> >
> > Cygwin has a BSD licenced getopt.c that doesn't need libiberty to=20
> > link, only mingw (AFAIK). Anyway worth investigating?
>=20
>    I usually regard getopt functions as higly unportable and=20
> always try to avoid them. I did not check how they are used=20
> in wrc&co, but it should not be very difficult to do entirely=20
> without them. I believe that would be the best solution.

You must end up writing the same bit of code many times. Ahh well, have
fun.

Rob