perl5 VS optparse

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As we mentioned last week, this week we are working on a portable, symbolic link implementation that also works on Windows. You can see our progress here. To implement this, the Perl win32/win32.c source code would be greatly appreciated.

However, I wouldn't shelve your plans to put more time into Moose. The PR for the initial Corinna work is out and while /u/leonerduk's work is great, the PR is huge and there are a few minor issues to deal with. I do not know when the initial Corinna work will be finished and even after that, it will be a couple of years before it's considered "stable."

First round of feature 'class'

First I noticed that there are some warning during the build emitted by one of the dependencies. As it turns out upgrading the dependency solved this issue, but the latest package of the dependency also had a minor issue. The version numbers in the different files were slightly confusing. So I reported that too.

Between -std=c99 and removing these headers, you're missing time definitions (struct timeval, gettimeofday) and option parsing definitions (struct option, getopt_long). Mingw-w64 provides all this for compatibility, but MSVC has none of these, so you'll need to write replacements. I've written embeddable, public domain implementations of getopt and something like getopt_long, in case that helps. These are how I deal with option parsing portability.

getopt_long is a GNU extension, common across unix-like systems, for parsing long options. You can find libraries for functionality as well.

When I need something more sophisticated, where long options would be nice, I reach for my own Optparse.

https://github.com/skeeto/optparse (short and long)

This is bug-free and feature complete so it never needs to be updated. When I need argument parsing in a C program, I just copy-paste that into my source and massage it into place. Sometimes I cut the fprintf() stuff, or replace the isalnum, or otherwise adapt it to fit the program's needs. The point is that it becomes wholly owned by the project using it. It's a similar story for long option parsing.