</> ccli - A simple header-only cli framework

Usage

To use the header just include it where you want to use it.

By default only the struct and macro definitions are exposed. To include the argument parser define the CCLI_IMPLEMENTATION macro before the include:

#define CCLI_IMPLEMENTATION
#include "cli.h"

Then create you can define your options in the following way:

static cli_command commands[] = {
    {"test", "Run the test command"},
    {"version", "Display the version of the app"},
    {0}
};

static cli_data echo_data;
static cli_data stderr_data = {.bool_data = false};

static cli_option options[] = {
    {0, "stderr", ARG_MAKE_GLOBAL(boolean, 0, 0), &stderr_data, "Print to stderr instead of stdout", NULL},
    {'e', "echo", ARG_MAKE_CMD(string, 1, 0, 0), &echo_data, "Echo the value given to this flag", "message"},
    {0}
};

The array commands hold all commands of the application. The unions of type cli_data hold the values the user passes to all the later defined flags. You can set default values by assigning a value to the correct field in the union.

Then you are ready to define all the options. The options array holds all the options across all the commands in the application.

An option is a struct holding the following information, in order:

• The short form of the flag
• The long form and name of the flag. Required
• The parameters of the flag. Check out the documentation of the macros
• A pointer to the union to save the data to
• An optional description of the flag.
• The name of the argument to a string|number|unumber flag. Required or NULL if the flag is boolean

Once the options are defined you can call the cli_parse_opts funtion in your program. The function returns the string value of the command that has been called or NULL if no command was invoked.

Documentation

Currently the only available documentation is the code itself.

All of the function in the header are documented.

More in-depth docuementation might come in the future.

Api changes

The project is fairly new. It started as a part of an university project of mine. I decied to extrapolate the code and make it available on GitHub.

I will change some of the apis to make working with the library easier and to avoid potential naming conflicts.

License

The project is licenced under the MIT license.

See LICENSE

Contributing

If you want to contribute to this project open an issue.