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  <h1>NAME</h1>

  <p>cli - command line interface compiler for C++</p>

  <h1>SYNOPSIS</h1>

  <dl id="synopsis">
    <dt><code><b>cli</b> [<i>options</i>] <i>file</i></code></dt>
  </dl>

  <h1>DESCRIPTION</h1>

  <p><code><b>cli</b></code> 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
  <code><b>name.cli</b></code> the following is generated. By
  default or if the <code><b>--generate-cxx</b></code> option is
  specified, the following C++ files are generated:
  <code><b>name.hxx</b></code> (header file), <code><b>name.ixx</b></code>
  (inline file, generated unless the <code><b>--suppress-inline</b></code>
  option is specified), and <code><b>name.cxx</b></code> (source file).
  If the <code><b>--generate-html</b></code> option is specified, then
  the <code><b>name.html</b></code> HTML documentation file is generated.
  If the <code><b>--generate-man</b></code> option is specified, then
  the <code><b>name.1</b></code> man page file is generated. When
  <code><b>--generate-html</b></code> or <code><b>--generate-man</b></code>
  is specified, the <code><b>--stdout</b></code> option can be used to
  redirect the output to STDOUT instead of a file.</p>

  <h1>OPTIONS</h1>

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<dl class="options">
  <dt><code><b>--help</b></code></dt>
  <dd>Print usage information and exit.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--version</b></code></dt>
  <dd>Print version and exit.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--output-dir</b></code>|<code><b>-o</b></code> <i>dir</i></dt>
  <dd>Write the generated files to <i>dir</i> instead of the current directory.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--generate-modifier</b></code></dt>
  <dd>Generate option value modifiers in addition to accessors.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--generate-specifier</b></code></dt>
  <dd>Generate functions for determining whether the option was specified on the
  command line.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--generate-file-scanner</b></code></dt>
  <dd>Generate the <code>argv_file_scanner</code> implementation. This scanner is
  capable of reading command line arguments from the <code>argv</code> array
  as well as files specified with command line options.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--suppress-inline</b></code></dt>
  <dd>Generate all functions non-inline. By default simple functions are made
  inline. This option suppresses creation of the inline file.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--suppress-usage</b></code></dt>
  <dd>Suppress the generation of the usage printing code.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--long-usage</b></code></dt>
  <dd>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.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--option-length</b></code> <i>len</i></dt>
  <dd>Indent option descriptions <i>len</i> 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.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--generate-cxx</b></code></dt>
  <dd>Generate C++ code. If neither <code><b>--generate-man</b></code> nor
  <code><b>--generate-html</b></code> is specified, this mode is assumed by
  default.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--generate-man</b></code></dt>
  <dd>Generate documentation in the man page format.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--generate-html</b></code></dt>
  <dd>Generate documentation in the HTML format.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--man-prologue</b></code> <i>file</i></dt>
  <dd>Insert the content of <i>file</i> at the beginning of the man page file.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--man-epilogue</b></code> <i>file</i></dt>
  <dd>Insert the content of <i>file</i> at the end of the man page file.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--html-prologue</b></code> <i>file</i></dt>
  <dd>Insert the content of <i>file</i> at the beginning of the HTML file.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--html-epilogue</b></code> <i>file</i></dt>
  <dd>Insert the content of <i>file</i> at the end of the HTML file.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--class</b></code> <i>fq-name</i></dt>
  <dd>Generate the man page or HTML documentation only for the <i>fq-name</i>
  options class. The <i>fq-name</i> name should be a fully-qualified options
  class name, for example, <code><b>app::options</b></code>. This
  functionality is useful if you need to insert custom documentation between
  options belonging to different classes.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--stdout</b></code></dt>
  <dd>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.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--hxx-suffix</b></code> <i>suffix</i></dt>
  <dd>Use <i>suffix</i> instead of the default <code><b>.hxx</b></code> to
  construct the name of the generated header file.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--ixx-suffix</b></code> <i>suffix</i></dt>
  <dd>Use <i>suffix</i> instead of the default <code><b>.ixx</b></code> to
  construct the name of the generated inline file.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--cxx-suffix</b></code> <i>suffix</i></dt>
  <dd>Use <i>suffix</i> instead of the default <code><b>.cxx</b></code> to
  construct the name of the generated source file.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--man-suffix</b></code> <i>suffix</i></dt>
  <dd>Use <i>suffix</i> instead of the default <code><b>.1</b></code> to construct
  the name of the generated man page file.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--html-suffix</b></code> <i>suffix</i></dt>
  <dd>Use <i>suffix</i> instead of the default <code><b>.html</b></code> to
  construct the name of the generated HTML file.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--option-prefix</b></code> <i>prefix</i></dt>
  <dd>Use <i>prefix</i> instead of the default <code><b>-</b></code> 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.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--option-separator</b></code> <i>sep</i></dt>
  <dd>Use <i>sep</i> instead of the default <code><b>--</b></code> 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.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--include-with-brackets</b></code></dt>
  <dd>Use angle brackets (&lt;>) instead of quotes ("") in the generated
  <code><b>#include</b></code> directives.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--include-prefix</b></code> <i>prefix</i></dt>
  <dd>Add <i>prefix</i> to the generated <code><b>#include</b></code> directive
  paths.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--guard-prefix</b></code> <i>prefix</i></dt>
  <dd>Add <i>prefix</i> 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.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--reserved-name</b></code> <i>name</i>=<i>rep</i></dt>
  <dd>Add <i>name</i> with an optional <i>rep</i> 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.</dd>

  <dt><code><b>--options-file</b></code> <i>file</i></dt>
  <dd>Read additional options from <i>file</i> with each option appearing on a
  separate line optionally followed by space and an option value. Empty lines
  and lines starting with <code><b>#</b></code> are ignored. Option values can
  be enclosed in double (<code><b>"</b></code>) or single
  (<code><b>'</b></code>) 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
  <code><b>'"x"'</b></code>. Non-leading and non-trailing quotes are
  interpreted as being part of the option value.

  <p>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 <code><b>--options-file</b></code> option is specified except that
  the shell escaping and quoting is not required. Repeat this option to
  specify more than one options files.</p></dd>

</dl>
  <h1>DIAGNOSTICS</h1>

  <p>If the input file is not a valid CLI definition, <code><b>cli</b></code>
     will issue diagnostic messages to STDERR and exit with non-zero exit
     code.</p>

  <h1>BUGS</h1>

  <p>Send bug reports to the
     <a href="mailto:cli-users@codesynthesis.com">cli-users@codesynthesis.com</a> mailing list.</p>

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