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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2017, ARM Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ */
+
+#ifndef __WINPOSIX_H__
+#	define __WINPOSIX_H__
+
+#	define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
+
+#	include <direct.h>
+#	include <io.h>
+#	include <stdint.h>
+#	include <stdlib.h>
+#	include <string.h>
+#	include <sys/stat.h>
+
+#	include "uuid.h"
+
+
+/* Derive or provide Windows equivalents of Posix/GCC/Unix stuff. */
+#	ifndef PATH_MAX
+#		ifdef MAX_PATH
+#			define PATH_MAX MAX_PATH
+#		else
+#			ifdef _MAX_PATH
+#				define MAX_PATH _MAX_PATH
+#				define PATH_MAX _MAX_PATH
+#			else
+#				define PATH_MAX 260
+#			endif
+#		endif
+#	endif
+
+#	ifndef _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
+#		define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS 1
+#	endif
+
+/*
+ * Platform specific names.
+ *
+ * Visual Studio deprecates a number of POSIX functions and only provides
+ * ISO C++ compliant alternatives (distinguished by their '_' prefix).
+ * These macros help provide a stopgap for that.
+ */
+
+/* fileno cannot be an inline function, because _fileno is a macro. */
+#	define fileno(fileptr) _fileno(fileptr)
+
+/* _fstat uses the _stat structure, not stat. */
+#	define BLD_PLAT_STAT	_stat
+
+/* Define flag values for _access. */
+#	define F_OK	0
+
+
+/* getopt implementation for Windows: Data. */
+
+/* Legitimate values for option.has_arg. */
+enum has_arg_values {
+	no_argument,		/* No argument value required */
+	required_argument,	/* value must be specified. */
+	optional_argument	/* value may be specified. */
+};
+
+/* Long option table entry for get_opt_long. */
+struct option {
+	/* The name of the option. */
+	const char *name;
+
+	/*
+	 * Indicates whether the option takes an argument.
+	 * Possible values: see has_arg_values above.
+	 */
+	int has_arg;
+
+	/* If not null, when option present, *flag is set to val. */
+	int *flag;
+
+	/*
+	 * The value associated with this option to return
+	 * (and save in *flag when not null)
+	 */
+	int val;
+};
+
+/*
+ * This variable is set by getopt to point at the value of the option
+ * argument, for those options that accept arguments.
+ */
+extern char *optarg;
+
+/*
+ * When this variable is not zero, getopt emits an error message to stderr
+ * if it encounters an unspecified option, or a missing argument.
+ * Otherwise no message is reported.
+ */
+extern const int opterr;	/* const as NOT used in this implementation. */
+
+/*
+ * This variable is set by getopt to the index of the next element of the
+ * argv array to be processed. Once getopt has found all of the option
+ * arguments, you can use this variable to determine where the remaining
+ * non-option arguments begin. The initial value of this variable is 1.
+ */
+extern int optind;
+
+/*
+ * When getopt encounters an unknown option character or an option with a
+ * missing required argument, it stores that option character in this
+ * variable.
+ */
+extern int optopt;
+
+
+/*
+ * Platform specific names.
+ *
+ * Visual Studio deprecates a number of POSIX functions and only provides
+ * ISO C++ compliant alternatives (distinguished by their '_' prefix).
+ * These inline functions provide a stopgap for that.
+ */
+
+inline int access(const char *path, int mode)
+{
+	return _access(path, mode);
+}
+
+inline int chdir(const char *s)
+{
+	return _chdir(s);
+}
+
+inline int fstat(int fd, struct _stat *buffer)
+{
+	return _fstat(fd, buffer);
+}
+
+inline char *strdup(const char *s)
+{
+	return _strdup(s);
+}
+
+/*
+ * getopt implementation for Windows: Functions.
+ *
+ * Windows does not have the getopt family of functions, as it normally
+ * uses '/' instead of '-' as the command line option delimiter.
+ * These functions provide a Windows version that  uses '-', which precludes
+ * using '-' as the intial letter of a program argument.
+ * This is not seen as a problem in the specific instance of fiptool,
+ * and enables existing makefiles to work on a Windows build environment.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * The getopt function gets the next option argument from the argument list
+ * specified by the argv and argc arguments.
+ */
+int getopt(int argc,
+	   char *argv[],
+	   char *options);
+
+/*
+ * getopt_long gets the next option argument from the argument list
+ * specified by the argv and argc arguments.  Options may be either short
+ * (single letter) as for getopt, or longer names (preceded by --).
+ */
+int getopt_long(int argc,
+		char *argv[],
+		const char *shortopts,
+		const struct option *longopts,
+		int *indexptr);
+
+/*
+ * getopt_long_only gets the next option argument from the argument list
+ * specified by the argv and argc arguments.  Options may be either short
+ * or long as for getopt_long, but the long names may have a single '-'
+ * prefix, too.
+ */
+int getopt_long_only(int argc,
+			   char *argv[],
+			   const char *shortopts,
+			   const struct option *longopts,
+			   int *indexptr);
+
+#endif /* __WINPOSIX_H__ */