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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