Actually, I think you can setup through the mostly undocumented style_t enumeration for using
a "/" but it is not automatic as I recall. See cmdline.hpp for the style_t definition. It also took a
little looking to figure out how to set style_t. I did it once a couple of years ago and I forget offhand
how I did it but could find it if needed.
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: Ovanes Markarian
To: boost-users@lists.boost.org
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Boost-users] program_options
James,
Hicham's point was to generate OS system dependent short long options notations. Like --help or -h on Posix and /help or /h on Windows. AFAIK, program options does not provide this feature.
With Kind Regards,
Ovanes
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:24 PM, James C. Sutherland wrote:
Try the syntax:
desc.add_options()
( "help", "print help message\n" )
( "Long-Option-Name,o", ...);
and then you have:
--Long-Option-Name
or
-o
as valid usages.
On Dec 7, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Hicham Mouline wrote:
> For command-line options, I understand from what I read so far that the
> options should be like
> --option_name=value
>
> There is a system(I believe it is gnu) which has the long and short versions
> of options, like
> -h and --help
> Also, on winxxx systems, usually the command line options are indicated with
> a / like /? or /x /X ....
>
> Is it possible to tune program_options to choose the platform's default way
> of treating options?
>
> Regards,
>
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