Windows getopt code

Re: Here's a version that's completely free Ludvik Jerabek 3-Sep Firstly, there is nothing stopping people from statically compiling this code. If you plan on distributing software using an LGPL library which is statically linked you simply need to provide the "object code" that links with the LGPL library and not the source.

The reason this is the case is because the LGPL library can have bugs which are later fixed and a user may want to link against the new version of the library. Thanks Bhatt Piyush Jul Bhatt Piyush. Amazing Code Helped me a lot. Works with Visual Studio as well Thank you. Re: Thanks Ludvik Jerabek Jul Thanks for your kind words. Glad to here it works in Did you really mean to have two! I think what was intended was "! Type mismatch?

Apparently, GNU implementation uses int as the type of these. I'm asking this because I'm converting a small linux utility to windows, and the values that are used in it goes beyond the byte limit of the char highest value is I'm curious why it was changed to these.

Thank you in advance! Re: Type mismatch? Sorry for my first reply The reason this breaks stuff is because you don't always want to map a long option to an individual character. You may want to map it to a arbitrarily large integer to create larger option sets. Thanks for the information I will fix it in a future release. I have published the fixed version. My vote of 4 lomo74 Jul Great work.

Cheers - Lorenzo -. Re: My vote of 4 Ludvik Jerabek Jul Lorenzo, Thanks for the information and kind words. I have been planning on going back and doing exactly what you outlined instead of having to compile separate dlls. Regards, Lu.

Re: My vote of 4 Ludvik Jerabek 2-Aug Just wanted to let you know I have updated my article and source they should have it posted any day now. The new source used defines in the header to toggle between the correct exported functions in the DLL rather than having to compile a unicode or an ANSI.

Kind Regards, Lu. Re: My vote of 4 lomo74 2-Aug I'm glad you accepted the suggestion. Keep up the good work! Re: My vote of 4 Ludvik Jerabek Jun It's hard to keep up with these projects when you have a full time job and several kids. I successfully did this using VC As far as I remember I ran into no significant issues doing so. NullUserException I rolled that back, and include the comment here. Er, including getopt. VictorSergienko: Sure some code out of getopt.

Anyway, my answer was not meant to be understood the way that compiling the files linked was possible without any minor modifications. Just feeding them "as is" to VC10 would not work. Getting glib to work in windows: HowTo Oh, you might explore using mingw for the build environment, and visual studio for your IDE. Glib for Win HowTo Anywho, hope this helps. Steven Fosdick Steven Fosdick 11 1 1 bronze badge.

Benj Benj I'm not sure if this will be practical for me. So, what happens in 2 months when they give us a slightly newer version of the code? Will I have to redo the argument processing code every time we get an update?

That sounds time consuming. It sounds as though you need to get together with these other developers and agree an argument passing system which is portable. The solution provided by theJollySin may well be the answer, but either way it's not difficult to write a portable argument parser.

Over the time the getopt API looked quiet stable to me. Why do it manually when the getopt function is available on the internet? The getopt. Well, finding getopt. I was more worried about the Windows getopt. Good to know though. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. If an element of ARGV starts with '-', and is not exactly "-" or "--",.

The characters of this element. The ARGV-elements have been permuted. Two colons mean an option that. Their names may be abbreviated as long as the abbreviation is unique. If they have an. The elements of ARGV aren't really const, because we permute them. But we pretend they're const in the prototype to be compatible.

It is only valid when a long-named option has been found by the most. Either it does not have option syntax, or there is an environment flag. The later information. Skip it like a null option,. Skip the initial punctuation.

Otherwise there would be no. On the other hand, if there's a long option "fubar" and. This distinction seems to be the most useful approach. Otherwise interpret it as a short option. Copyright C , , Free Software. Foundation, Inc. General Public License as published by the Free Software. Foundation; either version 2. License for more details. Why ctype. It's guaranteed to exist and it. Return the option character from OPTS just read. Return -1 when.

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To avoid compilation. Users should not call this directly.