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This program generates a C function that uses _getopt_long_ function to
parse the command line options, to validate them and fills a _struct_.
Thus your program can now handle options such as:

     myprog --input foo.c -o foo.o --no-tabs -i 100 *.class

   And both long options (those that start with -) and short options
(start with - and consist of only one character) can be handled.  For
standards about short and long options you may want to take a look at
the GNU Coding Standards (https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html).

   Gengetopt can also generate a function to save the command line
options into a file, and a function to read the command line options
from a file.  Of course, these two kinds of files are compliant.

   Generated code is commented with Doxygen (https://www.doxygen.org)
comments.

   Gengetopt is *free software*.  Please see the file <LICENSE> and
<COPYING> for details.  Use of gengetopt *does not impose any particular
license on the generated code, the generated code is considered to be in
public domain*.

   Gengetopt has originally been written by *Roberto Arturo Tena
Sanchez* and currently maintained by *Tomas Volf*.

   Gengetopt is a GNU (https://www.gnu.org) program and its main home
page is at GNU site <https://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt>.

1 Documentation
===============

For complete documentation, please see <gengetopt.html>.

2 Download
==========

You can download it from GNU's ftp site
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gengetopt/> or from one of its mirrors
(https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html).  You can also use https protocol to
benefit from encryption: <https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gengetopt/>.  Binaries
are not distributed, please either use your distribution's version or
compile your own.

2.1 Anonymous Git Checkout
--------------------------

This project's git repository can be checked out through the following
clone instruction:

     git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gengetopt.git

   Further instructions can be found at the address
<https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gengetopt> and the git repository can
also browsed on-line at
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gengetopt.git>.

   Please note that this way you will get the latest development sources
of Gengetopt, which may also be unstable.  This solution is the best if
you intend to correct/extend this program.  You should send me patches
against the latest git repository sources.

   If, on the contrary, you want to get the sources of a given release
through git, say, e.g., version X.Y.Z, you must check out the tag
'rel_X_Y_Z'.

   When you compile the sources that you get from the git repository,
before running the 'configure' and 'make' commands, for the first time,
you must run the command:

     autoreconf -i

   This will run the autotools commands in the correct order, and also
copy possibly missing files.  You need to have installed recent versions
of 'automake', 'autoconf' and 'libtool' in order for this to succeed.

2.2 CVS
-------

Since version 2.22.4 of Gengetopt the CVS repository was dismissed in
favor of Git.  The CVS repository is no longer updated or used.

3 Bugs
======

If you find a bug in gengetopt, please use the Savannah web interface
(https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gengetopt) to report it.

4 Changes in this release
=========================

See <NEWS> for a summary of new features and user visible changes in
this release.  See <ChangeLog> for complete list of changes.

5 Other
=======

Please send FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to <mailto:gnu@gnu.org>.
There are also other ways to contact
(https://www.gnu.org/home.html#ContactInfo) the FSF.

   Please send comments on these web pages to
<mailto:webmasters@gnu.org>, send other questions to
<mailto:gnu@gnu.org>.

6 Copyright
===========

Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place -
Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA

   Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted
in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.


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