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From:	Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject:	getopt_long missing (or "More esoteric language fun: EsCo")
Date:	Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:46:03 -0700 (PDT)
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As part of my endless quest for more esoteric language files to play
with, I found EsCo ("Esoteric Combine") on Sourceforge. It supports
quite a few languages besides my favorite Befunge93 (Whitespace,
Brainf***, Spoon, Ook!, Byter, HQ9+). And it's written in C++ (using
GMP), so DJGPP support is possible!

http://esco.sf.net

Anyways, a few weeks ago I barely got it to mostly compile for 0.51
(dated Dec. 2008), but it had issues (cstdio needed, getopt* for
getopt_long not compiling at all), so I contacted the author. He
replied, said he fixed a few things for latest GCCs, added -q upon
request, and pointed me to the GIT repo. Today I finally took a look
at rebuilding it (finally worked around Internet issues I encountered
this past week). And I noticed that 0.511 is available on Sourceforge
(dated Oct. 2), so I switched to that.

Various minor issues crop up:    same ol' silly Autoconf 2.63 typo, G+
+ lacking some backwards-compatible headers (so I switched back to
4.2.3), srcs no longer include getopt_long (although 0.51's didn't
work anyways) so I had to grab it from GNU BinUtils (and make two tiny
tweaks), and it basically works (although had to manually compile
getopt* and add them to makefile).

I even wrote up a silly .CMD (using "wget" for the external files,
lines are longer than 126 bytes). It seems to work, but I only really
vaguely tested Befunge (although numwarp.b also seems to work for
Brainf***, so that's good). I'm not posting the .CMD here since I'm
fairly certain nobody cares (but feel free to ask).

Basically, I'm wondering why getopt_long (apparently a GNU extension)
isn't available in libsupp or even DJGPP's lib. I understand you
probably don't want to contaminate the *BSD-ish license of the lib,
but it seems like something that should be put somewhere. Maybe it's
the EsCo dude's responsibility, who knows, but I felt it was important
enough to mention. (Plus, like I said, it won't build by default
unless you remove two instances ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED and comment out the
include of ansidecl.h, whatever that is). One old post said popt is
superior, but I'm not familiar with that (although Richard Dawe ported
it a while back).

Any thoughts?   :-)

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