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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2011-01-04 16:00:08 +0200
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+.\" Process this file with
+.\" groff -man -Tascii cli.1
+.\"
+.TH CLI 1 "December 2009" "CLI 1.1.0"
+.SH NAME
+cli \- command line interface compiler for C++
+.\"
+.\"
+.\"
+.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------
+.B cli
+.B [
+.I options
+.B ]
+.I file
+.\"
+.\"
+.\"
+.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------
+.B cli
+generates C++ implementation and documentation in various formats for a
+command line interface defined in the CLI language. For an input file in
+the form
+.B name.cli
+the following is generated. By default or if the
+.B --generate-cxx
+option is specified, the following C++ files are generated:
+.B name.hxx
+(header file),
+.B name.ixx
+(inline file, generated unless the
+.B --suppress-inline
+option is specified), and
+.B name.cxx (source file).
+If the
+.B --generate-html
+option is specified, then the
+.B name.html
+HTML documentation file is generated. If the
+.B --generate-man
+option is specified, then the
+.B name.1
+man page file is generated. When
+.B --generate-html
+or
+.B --generate-man
+is specified, the
+.B --stdout
+option can be used to redirect the output to STDOUT instead of a file.
+.\"
+.\"
+.\"
+.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------
+.SH OPTIONS
+.\"--------------------------------------------------------------------
+.\"
+.\" The following documentation was generated by CLI, a command
+.\" line interface compiler for C++.
+.\"
+.IP "\fB--help\fP"
+Print usage information and exit\.
+
+.IP "\fB--version\fP"
+Print version and exit\.
+
+.IP "\fB--output-dir\fP|\fB-o\fP \fIdir\fP"
+Write the generated files to \fIdir\fP instead of the current directory\.
+
+.IP "\fB--generate-modifier\fP"
+Generate option value modifiers in addition to accessors\.
+
+.IP "\fB--generate-specifier\fP"
+Generate functions for determining whether the option was specified on the
+command line\.
+
+.IP "\fB--generate-description\fP"
+Generate the option description list that can be examined at runtime\.
+
+.IP "\fB--generate-file-scanner\fP"
+Generate the argv_file_scanner implementation\. This scanner is capable of
+reading command line arguments from the argv array as well as files
+specified with command line options\.
+
+.IP "\fB--suppress-inline\fP"
+Generate all functions non-inline\. By default simple functions are made
+inline\. This option suppresses creation of the inline file\.
+
+.IP "\fB--suppress-undocumented\fP"
+Suppress the generation of documentation entries for undocumented options\.
+
+.IP "\fB--suppress-usage\fP"
+Suppress the generation of the usage printing code\.
+
+.IP "\fB--long-usage\fP"
+If no short documentation string is provided, use the complete long
+documentation string in usage\. By default, in this situation only the first
+sentence from the long string is used\.
+
+.IP "\fB--option-length\fP \fIlen\fP"
+Indent option descriptions \fIlen\fP characters when printing usage\. This
+is useful when you have multiple options classes, potentially in separate
+files, and would like their usage to have the same indentation level\.
+
+.IP "\fB--cli-namespace\fP \fIns\fP"
+Generate the CLI support types in the \fIns\fP namespace (\fBcli\fP by
+default)\. The namespace can be nested, for example \fBdetails::cli\fP\. If
+the namespace is empty, then the support types are generated in the global
+namespace\.
+
+.IP "\fB--generate-cxx\fP"
+Generate C++ code\. If neither \fB--generate-man\fP nor
+\fB--generate-html\fP is specified, this mode is assumed by default\.
+
+.IP "\fB--generate-man\fP"
+Generate documentation in the man page format\.
+
+.IP "\fB--generate-html\fP"
+Generate documentation in the HTML format\.
+
+.IP "\fB--man-prologue\fP \fIfile\fP"
+Insert the content of \fIfile\fP at the beginning of the man page file\.
+
+.IP "\fB--man-epilogue\fP \fIfile\fP"
+Insert the content of \fIfile\fP at the end of the man page file\.
+
+.IP "\fB--html-prologue\fP \fIfile\fP"
+Insert the content of \fIfile\fP at the beginning of the HTML file\.
+
+.IP "\fB--html-epilogue\fP \fIfile\fP"
+Insert the content of \fIfile\fP at the end of the HTML file\.
+
+.IP "\fB--class\fP \fIfq-name\fP"
+Generate the man page or HTML documentation only for the \fIfq-name\fP
+options class\. The \fIfq-name\fP name should be a fully-qualified options
+class name, for example, \fBapp::options\fP\. This functionality is useful
+if you need to insert custom documentation between options belonging to
+different classes\.
+
+.IP "\fB--stdout\fP"
+Write output to STDOUT instead of a file\. This option is not valid when
+generating C++ code and is normally used to combine generated documentation
+for several option classes in a single file\.
+
+.IP "\fB--hxx-suffix\fP \fIsuffix\fP"
+Use \fIsuffix\fP instead of the default \fB\.hxx\fP to construct the name of
+the generated header file\.
+
+.IP "\fB--ixx-suffix\fP \fIsuffix\fP"
+Use \fIsuffix\fP instead of the default \fB\.ixx\fP to construct the name of
+the generated inline file\.
+
+.IP "\fB--cxx-suffix\fP \fIsuffix\fP"
+Use \fIsuffix\fP instead of the default \fB\.cxx\fP to construct the name of
+the generated source file\.
+
+.IP "\fB--man-suffix\fP \fIsuffix\fP"
+Use \fIsuffix\fP instead of the default \fB\.1\fP to construct the name of
+the generated man page file\.
+
+.IP "\fB--html-suffix\fP \fIsuffix\fP"
+Use \fIsuffix\fP instead of the default \fB\.html\fP to construct the name
+of the generated HTML file\.
+
+.IP "\fB--option-prefix\fP \fIprefix\fP"
+Use \fIprefix\fP instead of the default \fB-\fP as an option prefix\.
+Unknown command line arguments that start with this prefix are treated as
+unknown options\. If you set the option prefix to the empty value, then all
+the unknown command line arguments will be treated as program arguments\.
+
+.IP "\fB--option-separator\fP \fIsep\fP"
+Use \fIsep\fP instead of the default \fB--\fP as an optional separator
+between options and arguments\. All the command line arguments that are
+parsed after this separator are treated as program arguments\. Set the
+option separator to the empty value if you don't want this functionality\.
+
+.IP "\fB--include-with-brackets\fP"
+Use angle brackets (<>) instead of quotes ("") in the generated
+\fB#include\fP directives\.
+
+.IP "\fB--include-prefix\fP \fIprefix\fP"
+Add \fIprefix\fP to the generated \fB#include\fP directive paths\.
+
+.IP "\fB--guard-prefix\fP \fIprefix\fP"
+Add \fIprefix\fP to the generated header inclusion guards\. The prefix is
+transformed to upper case and characters that are illegal in a preprocessor
+macro name are replaced with underscores\.
+
+.IP "\fB--reserved-name\fP \fIname\fP=\fIrep\fP"
+Add \fIname\fP with an optional \fIrep\fP replacement to the list of names
+that should not be used as identifiers\. If provided, the replacement name
+is used instead\. All C++ keywords are already in this list\.
+
+.IP "\fB--options-file\fP \fIfile\fP"
+Read additional options from \fIfile\fP with each option appearing on a
+separate line optionally followed by space and an option value\. Empty lines
+and lines starting with \fB#\fP are ignored\. Option values can be enclosed
+in double (\fB"\fP) or single (\fB'\fP) quotes to preserve leading and
+trailing whitespaces as well as to specify empty values\. If the value
+itself contains trailing or leading quotes, enclose it with an extra pair of
+quotes, for example \fB'"x"'\fP\. Non-leading and non-trailing quotes are
+interpreted as being part of the option value\.
+
+The semantics of providing options in a file is equivalent to providing the
+same set of options in the same order on the command line at the point where
+the \fB--options-file\fP option is specified except that the shell escaping
+and quoting is not required\. Repeat this option to specify more than one
+options file\.
+
+.\"
+.\" DIAGNOSTICS
+.\"
+.SH DIAGNOSTICS
+If the input file is not a valid CLI definition,
+.B cli
+will issue diagnostic messages to STDERR and exit with non-zero exit code.
+.\"
+.\" BUGS
+.\"
+.SH BUGS
+Send bug reports to the cli-users@codesynthesis.com mailing list.
+.\"
+.\" COPYRIGHT
+.\"
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Code Synthesis Tools CC.
+
+Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
+the terms of the MIT License. Copy of this license can be obtained from
+http://www.codesynthesis.com/licenses/mit.txt