diff --git a/tools/soslim/cmdline.c b/tools/soslim/cmdline.c
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+#include <debug.h>
+#include <cmdline.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <getopt.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
+
+extern char *optarg;
+extern int optind, opterr, optopt;
+
+static struct option long_options[] =
+{
+    {"verbose",  no_argument,       0, 'V'},
+    {"quiet",    no_argument,       0, 'Q'},
+    {"shady",    no_argument,       0, 'S'},
+    {"print",    no_argument,       0, 'p'},
+    {"help",     no_argument,       0, 'h'},
+    {"outfile",  required_argument, 0, 'o'},
+    {"filter",   required_argument, 0, 'f'},
+    {"dry",      no_argument,       0, 'n'},
+    {"strip",    no_argument,       0, 's'},
+    {0, 0, 0, 0},
+};
+
+/* This array must parallel long_options[] */
+static
+const char *descriptions[sizeof(long_options)/sizeof(long_options[0])] = {
+	"print verbose output",
+    "suppress errors and warnings",
+    "patch ABS symbols whose values coincide with section starts and ends",
+    "print the symbol table (if specified, only -V is allowed)",
+    "this help screen",
+    "specify an output file (if not provided, input file is modified)",
+    "specify a symbol-filter file",
+    "dry run (perform all calculations but do not modify the ELF file)",
+    "strip debug sections, if they are present"
+};
+
+void print_help(void)
+{
+    fprintf(stdout,
+			"invokation:\n"
+			"\tsoslim file1 [file2 file3 ... fileN] [-Ldir1 -Ldir2 ... -LdirN] "
+			"[-Vpn]\n"
+			"or\n"
+			"\tsoslim -h\n\n");
+	fprintf(stdout, "options:\n");
+	struct option *opt = long_options;
+	const char **desc = descriptions;
+	while (opt->name) {
+		fprintf(stdout, "\t-%c/--%-15s %s\n",
+				opt->val,
+				opt->name,
+				*desc);
+		opt++;
+		desc++;
+	}
+}
+
+int get_options(int argc, char **argv,
+                char **outfile,
+                char **symsfile,
+                int *print_symtab,
+                int *verbose,
+                int *quiet,
+                int *shady,
+                int *dry_run,
+                int *strip_debug)
+{
+    int c;
+
+    ASSERT(outfile);
+    *outfile = NULL;
+    ASSERT(symsfile);
+    *symsfile = NULL;
+    ASSERT(print_symtab);
+    *print_symtab = 0;
+    ASSERT(verbose);
+    *verbose = 0;
+    ASSERT(quiet);
+    *quiet = 0;
+    ASSERT(shady);
+    *shady = 0;
+    ASSERT(dry_run);
+    *dry_run = 0;
+    ASSERT(strip_debug);
+    *strip_debug = 0;
+
+    while (1) {
+        /* getopt_long stores the option index here. */
+        int option_index = 0;
+
+        c = getopt_long (argc, argv,
+                         "QVSphi:o:y:Y:f:ns",
+                         long_options,
+                         &option_index);
+        /* Detect the end of the options. */
+        if (c == -1) break;
+
+        if (isgraph(c)) {
+            INFO ("option -%c with value `%s'\n", c, (optarg ?: "(null)"));
+        }
+
+#define SET_STRING_OPTION(name) do { \
+    ASSERT(optarg);                  \
+    *name = strdup(optarg);          \
+} while(0)
+
+        switch (c) {
+        case 0:
+            /* If this option set a flag, do nothing else now. */
+            if (long_options[option_index].flag != 0)
+                break;
+            INFO ("option %s", long_options[option_index].name);
+            if (optarg)
+                INFO (" with arg %s", optarg);
+            INFO ("\n");
+            break;
+        case 'p': *print_symtab = 1; break;
+        case 'h': print_help(); exit(1); break;
+        case 'V': *verbose = 1; break;
+        case 'Q': *quiet = 1; break;
+        case 'S': *shady = 1; break;
+        case 'n': *dry_run = 1; break;
+        case 's': *strip_debug = 1; break;
+        case 'o': SET_STRING_OPTION(outfile); break;
+        case 'f': SET_STRING_OPTION(symsfile); break;
+        case '?':
+            /* getopt_long already printed an error message. */
+            break;
+
+#undef SET_STRING_OPTION
+
+        default:
+            FAILIF(1, "Unknown option");
+        }
+    }
+
+    return optind;
+}