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

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francois Gouget [mailto:fgouget at free.fr] 
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 6:15 AM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: Steven_Ed4153 at yahoo.com; wine-devel at winehq.com; 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