GNU Gengetopt This program generates a C function that uses /getopt_long/ function to parse the command line options, to validate them and fills a /struct/ . Thus your program can now handle options such as: myprog --input foo.c -o foo.o --no-tabs -i 100 *.class And both long options (those that start with --) and short options (start with - and consist of only one character) can be handled. For standards about short and long options you may want to take a look at the GNU Coding Standards <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html> . gengetopt is *free software*. Please see the file LICENSE and COPYING for details. Notice that: Use of gengetopt _does not impose any particular license on the generated code: the code generated is not under any license_. For installation, please read the INSTALL file. For documentation, please read the info documentation. gengetopt is perfect if you are too lazy (like me) to write all stuff required to call getopt_long, and when you have a program and wish it took options. Generated code works if you use /GNU Autoconf/ or /GNU Automake/ . Gengetopt has originally been written by *Roberto Arturo Tena Sanchez* <arturo@directmail.org <mailto:arturo@directmail.org>>, and currently maintained by *Lorenzo Bettini* http://www.lorenzobettini.it . Gengetopt is a GNU <http://www.gnu.org> program and its main home page is at GNU site: http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt/gengetopt.html Download You can download it from GNU's ftp site: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gengetopt/ or from one of its mirrors (see http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html ). Anonymous Git Checkout This project's git repository can be checked out through the following clone instruction: git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gengetopt.git Further instructions can be found at the address: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gengetopt. And the git repository can also browsed on-line at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gengetopt.git. Since version 2.22.4 of Gengetopt the CVS repository was dismissed in favor of Git (http://git-scm.com/). *Lorenzo Bettini* http://www.lorenzobettini.it gengetopt is free software. See the file LICENSE and COPYING for copying conditions. Anyway we won't get offended if you send us a postcard :-) C/C++ files are formatted with /GNU Source-highlight/ (http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/ ) by Lorenzo Bettini.
