mkgetopt.py generates ANSI C command line parsing routines that uses
getopt_long(). It aims to remove the tedium of parsing command
line options in various programs.
It reads a text file containing descriptions of the command line
options and generates corresponding .c, and .h files. These
generated files have no other dependency other than getopt_long()
and libc.
Python 2.7.x
Unix like systems (including OS X Darwin):
./install.sh
Windows:
- copy mkgetopt.py to some directory in
%PATH- copy the mkgetopt-manual.txt to a directory where you can find it in the future (for reference)
If your system doesn't have a functional getopt_long() - use the
version provided here. The bundled version of getopt_long() is
from NetBSD with minor changes for ANSI-fication, and is distributed
under the terms described at the top of getopt_long.h and
getopt_long.c.
Read the reStructured Text file mkgetopt-manual.txt. If you have docutils installed, you can generate a PDF of the .txt file and read it at your leisure.
The same text file is converted to a manpage and is available as mkgetopt.1; on Unix like systems, this is installed as *mkgetopt.py.1.gz"