diff --git a/soltools/javadep/javadep.c b/soltools/javadep/javadep.c
index a573d78eed75..d0517d832f45 100644
--- a/soltools/javadep/javadep.c
+++ b/soltools/javadep/javadep.c
@@ -733,6 +733,7 @@ usage()
             pprogname);
 }
 
+#ifdef WNT
 /* my very simple minded implementation of getopt()
  * it's to sad that getopt() is not available everywhere
  * note: this is not a full POSIX conforming getopt()
@@ -770,6 +771,7 @@ int simple_getopt(char *pargv[], const char *poptstring)
     }
     return -1;
 }
+#endif
 
 int CDECL
 main(int argc, char *argv[])