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RE: setup.exe command line options
- To: Keith Starsmeare <keith_starsmeare at yahoo dot co dot uk>
- Subject: RE: setup.exe command line options
- From: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: 31 Oct 2001 20:40:44 +1100
- Cc: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- References: <20011031083038.86183.qmail@web9906.mail.yahoo.com>
On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 19:30, Keith Starsmeare wrote:
> --- Robert Collins <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au> wrote: > > -----Original
> Message-----
> > > From: Keith Starsmeare [mailto:keith_starsmeare@yahoo.co.uk]
> > >
> > > I thought it best to mirror the options in the dialog boxes,
> > > so I came up
> > > with these options:
> >
> > Can I suggest getopt is used? (Just copy the mingw_getopt.o rule from
> > utils/Makefile.in).
>
> The arguments are passed in as one string, can I use getopt to process a
> string; I imagined I that getopt worked with an array of strings i.e. char
> *argv[]?
Fixed. I realised this just after mailing my comment :}. Update your CVS
repository.
> I enjoyed writing my own function to make parsing easier (I've never used
> getopt, although I had heard of it, and there's no man page) but if getopt is
> the way to go then I'll use it.
>
> Keith
>
> BTW Is there a cinoptions setting for vim to match the indentation in the setup
> sources - I can't get the braces and then the block of code to indent...
Possibly, I ususally just hit spc spc :].