This is the changelog for cxxopts
, a C++11 library for parsing command line
options. The project adheres to semantic versioning.
- Fix compilation with optional on C++20.
- Fix unannotated fallthrough.
- Fix sign conversion with Unicode output.
- Don't initialize regex in static initialiser.
- Fix incorrect integer overflow checks.
- Add fuzzing to CI
- Change quote output to '' to match Windows.
- Don't split positional arguments by the list delimiter.
- Order help groups by the order they were added.
- Fixed version number in header.
- Fixed cast warning in Unicode function.
- Support for multiple long names for the same option (= multiple long aliases)
- Add a
program()
function to retrieve the program name. - Added a .clang-format file.
- Added iterator and printing for a ParseResult.
- Cleanup exception code, add cxxopts::exceptions namespace.
- Renamed several exceptions to be more descriptive, and added to a nested namespace.
- Fix
arguments()
having no key for options that only have a short name.
- Only search for a C++ compiler in CMakeLists.txt.
- Allow for exceptions to be disabled.
- Fix duplicate default options when there is a short and long option.
- Add
CXXOPTS_NO_EXCEPTIONS
to disable exceptions. - Fix char parsing for space and check for length.
- Change argument type in
Options::parse
fromchar**
toconst char**
. - Refactor parser to not change its arguments.
ParseResult
doesn't depend on a reference to the parser.- Fixed several warnings and code quality issues.
- Improved formatting for help descriptions.
- Improve integer parsing.
- A list of unmatched arguments is available in
ParseResult
. - Support single letter options with argument attached.
- Use if it is present.
- Fix missing option name in exception.
- Allow integers to have leading zeroes.
- Build the tests by default.
- Don't check for container when showing positional help.
- Iterator inputs to
parse_positional
. - Throw an exception if the option in
parse_positional
doesn't exist. - Parse a delimited list in a single argument for vector options.
- Add an option to disable implicit value on booleans.
- Fix a warning about possible loss of data.
- Fix version numbering in CMakeLists.txt
- Remove unused declaration of the undefined
ParseResult::get_option
. - Throw on invalid option syntax when beginning with a
-
. - Throw in
as
when option wasn't present. - Fix catching exceptions by reference.
- Fix out of bounds errors parsing integers.
- Revert the change adding
const
type forargv
, because most users expect to pass a non-constargv
frommain
.
- Options with implicit arguments now require the
--option=value
form if they are to be specified with an option. This is to remove the ambiguity when a positional argument could follow an option with an implicit value. For example,--foo value
, wherefoo
has an implicit value, will be parsed as--foo=implicit
and a positional argumentvalue
. - Boolean values are no longer special, but are just an option with a default and implicit value.
- Added support for
std::optional
as a storage type. - Allow the help string to be customised.
- Use
const
for the type in theargv
parameter, since the contents of the arguments is never modified.
- Building against GCC 4.9 was broken due to overly strict shadow warnings.
- Fixed an ambiguous overload in the
parse_positional
function when aninitializer_list
was directly passed. - Fixed precedence in the Boolean value regex.
Options::parse
returns a ParseResult rather than storing the parse result internally.- Options with default values now get counted as appearing once if they were not specified by the user.
- A new
ParseResult
object that is the immutable result of parsing. It responds to the samecount
andoperator[]
asOptions
of 1.x did. - The function
ParseResult::arguments
returns a vector of the parsed arguments to iterate through in the order they were provided. - The symbol
cxxopts::version
for the version of the library. - Booleans can be specified with various strings and explicitly set false.
The 1.x series was the first major version of the library, with release numbers starting to follow semantic versioning, after 0.x being unstable. It never had a changelog maintained for it. Releases mostly contained bug fixes, with the occasional feature added.