Are there alternate implementations of GNU getline interface?

Question

The experiment I am currently working uses a software base with a complicated source history and no well defined license. It would be a considerable amount of work to ration

Answer 1

Try using fgets() instead of getline(). I was using getline() in Linux and it was working well until I migrated to Windows. The Visual studio did not recognize getline(). So, I replace the character pointer with character, and EOF with NULL. See below:

Before:

char *line = (char*) malloc(sizeof(char) * 1000);
size_t size = 1000 * sizeof(char);
FILE *fp = fopen(file, "r");
while(getline(&line, &size, fp) != EOF) {
   ...
}
free(line);

After:

char line[1000];
size_t size = 1000 * sizeof(char);
while(fgets(&line, &size, fp) != NULL) {
   ...
}