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 < James.Sutherland@utah.edu> 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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