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Re: Missing getopt.h for MinGW is not a bug.


From: Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com>
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>

I'm not sure why Yahoo hasn't delivered the personal main but ...

> On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 23:58, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > We purposefully do not give GPLed interfaces to the MinGW user
> > community, even though we do supply the libraries for those who are
> > aware of the GPL issues. You'll have to supply your own declarations
> > for getopt.
>
> There are BSD getopt's floating around, why not use one of those?

It's on the round tuit list to provide a GPL free libiberty which should contain such an object as this BSD getopt.

Earnie.


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