Argh! vs gflags

Argh!

Argh! A minimalist argument handler. (by adishavit)

The gflags package contains a C++ library that implements commandline flags processing. It includes built-in support for standard types such as string and the ability to define flags in the source file in which they are used. Online documentation available at: (by gflags)

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Argh!		gflags
	Project
1	Mentions	4
1,273	Stars	2,799
-	Growth	1.0%
2.5	Activity	0.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
C++	Language	C++
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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Argh!

Posts with mentions or reviews of Argh!. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-25.

CLI11 is making all the other options libraries look bad, does anyone have a comparison from experience?
6 projects | /r/cpp | 25 Aug 2022

I personally have been very satisfied with Argh, although I'm not sure that it's necessarily as powerful or more so than CLI11.

gflags

Posts with mentions or reviews of gflags. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-21.

All 1,400 Google Chrome CLI flags
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Dec 2022
Resolved an issue in gflags which has been opened for about 7 years
2 projects | /r/cpp | 24 Jan 2022

Someone opened an issue at https://github.com/gflags/gflags/issues/76, to request for a feature of flag alias, and it has been opened for about 7 years.
New to photogrammetry, getting started?
7 projects | /r/photogrammetry | 12 Apr 2021

git clone https://github.com/gflags/gflags.git
Why Do Long Options Start with Two Dashes?
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2021

Google's command line flags library, known to the public as absl::Flags and formerly gflags, does not distinguish between --foo and -foo, these are both the flag "foo". Each flag has a unique name so there is never a short -f equivalent to --foo, and -foo can never mean -f -o -o.
The main design motivation of absl::Flags is that the flag definitions can appear in any module, not just main. Go inherits this. A quirk that Go did not inherit is gflags --nofoo alternate form of --foo=false.
This is all documented at https://gflags.github.io/gflags/#commandline, which is pretty much a literal export of the flags package documentation that a Google engineer would see internally.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Argh! and gflags you can also consider the following projects:

jarro2783/cxxopts - Lightweight C++ command line option parser

Boost.Program_options - Boost.org program_options module

conan - Conan - The open-source C and C++ package manager

CLI11 - CLI11 is a command line parser for C++11 and beyond that provides a rich feature set with a simple and intuitive interface.

args - A simple header-only C++ argument parser library. Supposed to be flexible and powerful, and attempts to be compatible with the functionality of the Python standard argparse library (though not necessarily the API).

rang - A Minimal, Header only Modern c++ library for terminal goodies 💄✨

Ncurses - ncurses Git mirror

Vcpkg - C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS