Re: Compiling gnu diction on Cygwin

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>]

On 2022-04-05 07:27, Keith Christian wrote:
> I successfully compiled diction and style from this tar file, but with errors:
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diction/diction-1.11.tar.gz
> Diction and style both work, but I am looking for suggestions for how
> to clean up the compile errors in lines 48 - 60 below:
...
>      48  getopt.c:147:1: warning: function declaration isnt a prototype
> [-Wstrict-prototypes]
>      49    147 | extern char *getenv ();
>      50        | ^~~~~~
>      51  getopt.c: In function _getopt_internal_r:
>      52  getopt.c:444:23: warning: cast discards const qualifier from
> pointer target type [-Wcast-qual]
>      53    444 |             exchange ((char **) argv, d);
>      54        |                       ^
>      55  getopt.c:467:23: warning: cast discards const qualifier from
> pointer target type [-Wcast-qual]
>      56    467 |             exchange ((char **) argv, d);
>      57        |                       ^
>      58  getopt.c:774:27: warning: cast discards const qualifier from
> pointer target type [-Wcast-qual]
>      59    774 |           d->__nextchar = (char *) "";
>      60        |                           ^

#include <stdlib.h>
remove casts (should not normally be required or used in C)

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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