Short: Free Getopt Author: Mark K. Kim, Fredrik Wikstrom (OS4 compile) Uploader: Fredrik Wikstrom Type: dev/lib Version: 0.11 Architecture: ppc-amigaos Installation: Copy libfreegetopt.a SDK:Local/newlib/lib/ Copy getopt.h SDK:Local/newlib/include/ Usage: gcc -o blah.exe blah1.o blah2.o -lfreegetopt --- original readme --- ****************************************************************************** Please read the file LICENSE for the terms of use and distribution of this software. ****************************************************************************** "getopt" is a library that allows a parsing of arguments passed to a program. This is a useful library used in many software. There are many versions of the getopt library available, two popular versions being the BSD getopt and the GNU getopt. BSD getopt is somewhat old, dated, and isn't very user-friendly. The GNU getopt is great, except the user license doesn't let you statically link the library to a proprietary software. This is usually not a problem on modern operating systems that allow dynamic links to libraries, but sometimes you just gotta link the library statically for one reason or another. That's where Free Getopt steps in. Functionally, this getopt library is equivalent to GNU's getopt library (the short option version, not the long one) in almost every aspect. The only exception is how the "optind" variable increments. Apparently due to different algorithms used by my program and the GNU getopt, the "optind" changes quite differently between our two software. I personally find my algorithm to be quite elegant; I couldn't tell you about the GNU version since I never looked at its source. GNU's getopt_long support is in progress. This library was deliberately left in non-library (not in *.lib, *.so, or *.a) form because it's most likely to be statically-linked in various platforms, and linking it directly from source is probably the most straight-forward way to use the software in any platform. I hope you find this software useful. Mark K. Kim $Header: /cvsroot/freegetopt/freegetopt/README,v 1.2 2003/10/26 03:10:19 vindaci Exp $