Is there a tool that generates C/C++ source code from XML (or something similar) to create command line argument parsing functionality?Now a longer explanation of the question:I have up til now used gengetopt for command line argument parsing. It is a nice tool that generates C source code from its own configuration format (a text file). For instance the gengetopt configuration line\[code\]option "max-threads" m "max number of threads" int default="1" optional\[/code\]among other things generates a variable\[code\]int max_threads_arg; \[/code\]that I later can use.But gengetopt doesn't provide me with this functionality:
rogram_options::variables_map ( tutorial ). I other words, I prefer \[code\]args_info.iterations_arg\[/code\] to \[code\]vm["iterations"].as<int>()\[/code\]User tsug303 suggested the library TCLAP. It looks quite nice. It would fit my needs to divide the options into groups so that I could reuse code when multiple programs share some common options. Although it doesn't generate out the source code from a configuration file format in XML, I almost marked that answer as the accepted answer.But none of the suggested libraries fullfilled all of my requirements so I started thinking about writing my own library. A sketch: A new tool that would take as input a custom XML format and that would generate both C++ code and an XML schema. Some other C++ code is generated from the XML schema with the tool CodeSynthesis XSD. The two chunks of C++ code are combined into a library. One extra benefit is that we get an XML Schema for the command line options and that we get a way to serialize all of them into a binary format (in CDR format generated from CodeSynthesis XSD). I will see if I get the time to write such a library. Better of course is to find a libraray that has already been implemented.Today I read about user Nore's suggested alternative. It looks promising and I will be eager to try it out when the planned C++ code generation has been implemented. The suggestion from Nore looks to be the closest thing to what I have been looking for.
- A way to generate Unix man pages from the gengetopt configuration format
- A way to generate DocBook or HTML documentation from the gengetopt configuration format
- A way to reuse C/C++ source code and to reuse gengetopt configuration lines when I have multiple programs that share some common command line options
rogram_options::variables_map ( tutorial ). I other words, I prefer \[code\]args_info.iterations_arg\[/code\] to \[code\]vm["iterations"].as<int>()\[/code\]User tsug303 suggested the library TCLAP. It looks quite nice. It would fit my needs to divide the options into groups so that I could reuse code when multiple programs share some common options. Although it doesn't generate out the source code from a configuration file format in XML, I almost marked that answer as the accepted answer.But none of the suggested libraries fullfilled all of my requirements so I started thinking about writing my own library. A sketch: A new tool that would take as input a custom XML format and that would generate both C++ code and an XML schema. Some other C++ code is generated from the XML schema with the tool CodeSynthesis XSD. The two chunks of C++ code are combined into a library. One extra benefit is that we get an XML Schema for the command line options and that we get a way to serialize all of them into a binary format (in CDR format generated from CodeSynthesis XSD). I will see if I get the time to write such a library. Better of course is to find a libraray that has already been implemented.Today I read about user Nore's suggested alternative. It looks promising and I will be eager to try it out when the planned C++ code generation has been implemented. The suggestion from Nore looks to be the closest thing to what I have been looking for.