Re: putenv with mingw32

[Ben Pfaff]

Brian Dessent <address@hidden> writes:

> MinGW implements access to 'environ' as a macro in stdlib.h, one which
> gets the environment pointer through a function call.  However, that
> macro is not enabled if __STRICT_ANSI__ is set, and -std=c99 sets
> __STRICT_ANSI__.  So one workaround would be to drop -std=c99, or add
> -U__STRICT_ANSI__ to CFLAGS but that seems rather lame.

Is there a particular reason that you want to use -std=c99?  To
me, it seems odd to request C99-only semantics from the compiler
and then try to use features that are not part of C99
(e.g. environ).

I would use -std=gnu99 in this case.
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