what the fuck am i doing wrong

.gitea/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -12,3 +12,10 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - run: ./configure && make
       - run: ./mikusays -V && ./mikusays "hi"
+
+  windows-cross:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64
+      - run: ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 && make

.gitea/workflows/release.yml

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ on:
     tags: ["v*"]
 
 jobs:
-  # builds the source tarball (configure included) and checks tag == configure.ac version
   dist:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
@@ -44,17 +43,37 @@ jobs:
           strip mikusays
           ./mikusays -V
           ./mikusays "hi" > /dev/null
-          out=mikusays-$VERSION-linux-x86_64
-          mkdir "$out"
-          cp mikusays LICENSE README.md "$out"/
-          tar czf ../"$out".tar.gz "$out"
+          mv mikusays ../mikusays-$VERSION-linux-x86_64
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
         with:
           name: bin-linux-x86_64
-          path: mikusays-*-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
+          path: mikusays-*-linux-x86_64
+
+  build-windows:
+    needs: dist
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: install compiler
+        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y build-essential gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: dist
+      - name: build and package
+        run: |
+          VERSION=${GITHUB_REF_NAME#v}
+          tar xf mikusays-$VERSION.tar.gz
+          cd mikusays-$VERSION
+          ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 LDFLAGS="-static"
+          make
+          x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip mikusays.exe
+          mv mikusays.exe ../mikusays-$VERSION-windows-x86_64.exe
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: bin-windows-x86_64
+          path: mikusays-*-windows-x86_64.exe
 
   release:
-    needs: [dist, build]
+    needs: [dist, build, build-windows]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/download-artifact@v3

configure.ac

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])
-AC_INIT([mikusays], [1.1.0], [], [mikusays], [https://git.squeakyrat.moe/mikusays-c])
+AC_INIT([mikusays], [1.1.3], [], [mikusays], [https://git.squeakyrat.moe/mikusays-c])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/main.c])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects -Wall])

src/main.c

@@ -480,8 +480,7 @@ static int usage_error(const char *format, ...){
 }
 
 //returns 1 if argv[*index] is this option; *value stays NULL when the value is missing
-static int match_value_option(int argc, char **argv, int *index, const char *long_name,
-                              char short_name, const char **value){
+static int match_value_option(int argc, char **argv, int *index, const char *long_name, char short_name, const char **value){
     const char *argument = argv[*index];
     size_t long_length = strlen(long_name);