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From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: undefined reference to `_getline' in linking
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Kristian Hermansen wrote:

> administrator AT ubuntu-khermans-desk:/tmp$ cat getline-test.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main() {
>   FILE *fp;
>   char *line = NULL;
>   size_t len = 0;
>   fp = fopen("/etc/motd", "r");
>   getline(&line,&len,fp);
> }
> administrator AT ubuntu-khermans-desk:/tmp$ i586-mingw32msvc-gcc
> getline-test.c /tmp/ccCRN0HZ.o:getline-test.c:(.text+0x5f): undefined
> reference to `_getline'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> </snip>
> 
> I filed a bug with Ubuntu, as I am unsure if this is a distro-specific
> problem or something upstream:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mingw32/+bug/92072

What has this got to do with Cygwin?  This is not a support list for
Ubuntu or MinGW.  The answer you're probably fishing for is that MinGW
(or rather MSVCRT.DLL) does not implement getline, so you shouldn't
expect this to work.

Brian

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