A C++ Command line option parsing library
	=========================================

Please refer to the automatically generated HTML documentation.  

Thanks:
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	Chris Haidinyak <chrish@techspecs.com> for reporting bugs on
	error handling.

Debian:
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	I use Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 for most of what I do. 

	To make a debian package, simply do `debuild'.  
	
	The HTML documentation is installed in the liboptionmm-dev
	Debian package. 

Red Hat:
--------
	There's no support for making Red Hat packages just yet -
	sorry.  However, I do plan to make it at some point. 

IDE's:
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	The sub-directory `ide' contains some project files for
	various IDEs (Integrated Development Platforms).  

	`optionmm.dsw'
	`liboptionmm.dsp'
	`demo.dsp'
	`tryit.dsp'
		Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 project and workspace files. 


		Note, that I use `.cc' as the extension for C++
		implementation files, and `.hh' as the extension for
		C++ declaration files.  MSVC and Microsoft Visual
		Studio (MSVS) does not understand those extension as
		C++ files, so you need to do a bit of Registry magic
		to get it to work.  Here's how (also refer to the
		documentation of MSVC and MSVS):
	
		* Start `regedit'

		* In the group `HKEY_CLASS_ROOT', add two new keys, by
		  selecting `New -> Key' from the pop-up menu (right
		  click), called `.cc' with value `cppfile' and
		  another called `.hh' with value `hppfile'.

		* In the group `HKEY_CURRENT_USER', find the group for
		  MS Developer studio:

		    Software\Microsoft\DevStudio\<version>

		  There, you need to find the sub-entry for the
		  platform, typically something like:

	            Build System\Components\Platforms\Win32 (<cpu>)
             
                  In that group, there's another subgroup for the compiler:

    	            Tools\C/C++ Compiler for <cpu>

		  Whew! OK.  In this group, edit the `Input_Spec'
	          entry to contain `*.cc'.

	        * Going back to the Developer Studio group, find the
	          group for the editor, and it's language settings for
	          C/C++:

	            Text Editor\Tabs/Language Settings\C/C++
 
	          There's an entry called `FileExtensions' - edit that
		  qto contain `hh' and `cc'.
        
	        Once all that's done, you'll have nice syntax
	        highlighting and so on in MSVS when you open the
	        `optionmm' workspace.

	`liboptionmm.dev'
	`demo.dev'
	`tryit.dev'
	        Dev-C++ project files. 
			
MS Visual C++ 6.0:
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	To build using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (MSVC), you should run
	configure as follows:

	  ./configure CC=`pwd`/ide/cl		\
		      CXX=`pwd`/ide/cl		\
		      CXXFLAGS="-GX"		\
		      LD=link			
		      --enable-dependency-tracking 
	  

	The script "`pwd`/ide/cl" is a small wrapper around MSVC's
	compiler "cl.exe" that simply prefixes all ".cc" files with
	the option "/Tp" to force C++ compilation. 

	The flag "-GX" is to enable exception handling. 

	The option "--enable-dependency-tracking" is to have Autotools
	track the dependencies of the source code. 

	Note, that `make check' report failure, but as is evident from
	the output, the tests don't really fail. Hence, please don't
	report that as a bug to me. 


Christian Holm Christensen
<cholm@nbi.dk>