DDCLI

###by Dave Dribin

an Objective-C library to help write command line applications by simplifying parsing command line options and eliminating much of the boiler plate code.

The getopt_long(3) function is used to parse command options, but the complexity of using this function is hidden by an Objective-C wrapper (DDGetoptLongParser). Key-Value Coding (KVC) is used to set the options on a target class. A simple example should help make this clear.

http://www.dribin.org/dave/software/ddcli/api/

###Modifications in the repo: PPC support dropped, 64bit mode and ARC compatibility added.

note: the project remains non-arc so it is available in 32bit and 64bit both but it has been modified to work with projects that DO use arc.

For that I changed the DDGetoptOption struct to no longer include a NSString *longOption but a const char *longOption

so From the example above one would have to modify:

- (void) application: (DDCliApplication *) app
willParseOptions: (DDGetoptLongParser *) optionsParser;
{
	DDGetoptOption optionTable[] = 
    {
	    // Long         Short   Argument options
    	{@"output",     'o',    DDGetoptRequiredArgument},
		{@"help",       'h',    DDGetoptNoArgument},
	    {nil,           0,      0},
    };
	[optionsParser addOptionsFromTable: optionTable];
}

to:

...
    	{"output",     'o',    DDGetoptRequiredArgument},
		{"help",       'h',    DDGetoptNoArgument},
...

no more @" but only " -> NSString to char*