Hi, I am pleased to announce the first public release of CLI. CLI is an open-source (MIT license), cross-platform command line interface compiler for C++. It allows you to specify the options that your program supports, their types, and default values. For example: include <string>; class options { bool --help; std::string --name = "example"; unsigned int --level | -l = 5; }; This specification can then be automatically translated to C++ classes that implement parsing of the command line arguments and provide a convenient and type-safe interface for accessing the extracted data. For example: #include <string> class options { public: options (int argc, char** argv); options (int argc, char** argv, int& end); bool help () const; const std::string& name () const; unsigned int level () const; ... }; int main (int argc, char* argv[]) { options o (argc, argv); if (o.help ()) print_usage (); if (o.level () > 4) cerr << "name is " << o.name () << endl; ... } It is easy to start using CLI in your application since there are no external dependencies. You can compile your command line interface to C++ and simply add the generated files to your project's source code. For a five minute introduction to CLI, see the "Hello World" example in the CLI Getting Started Guide: http://www.codesynthesis.com/projects/cli/doc/guide/#2 More information, documentation, and source code distributions are available from the project's web page: http://www.codesynthesis.com/projects/cli/ Enjoy, Boris -- Boris Kolpackov, Code Synthesis Tools http://codesynthesis.com/~boris/blog Open-source XML data binding for C++: http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsd XML data binding for embedded systems: http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsde