> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francois Gouget [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 6:15 AM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ReactOS-Kernel
> Subject: RE: [ros-kernel] Status of building Wine under Cygwin/Mingw
>
>
> On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Robert Collins wrote:
> [...]
> > > 4. add -liberty to the makefile for wrc and wmc. This is needed
> > > because of getopt and optarg
> >
> > Cygwin has a BSD licenced getopt.c that doesn't need libiberty to
> > link, only mingw (AFAIK). Anyway worth investigating?
>
> I usually regard getopt functions as higly unportable and
> always try to avoid them. I did not check how they are used
> in wrc&co, but it should not be very difficult to do entirely
> 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
