argz: CLI application helper for Zig

Supports:

• Subcommands app sub1 sub2
• Input options for primitive types string integer boolean
• Chained options for boolean types -abc is same as -a -b -c
• Flags for on/off behavior types
• Typed arguments
• Builtin and customizable help system
• Hooks for attaching user functions to specified locations.

Installation

Use zig fetch --save to pull a version of the library into your build.zig.zon. (This requires at least Zig 0.11.)

zig fetch --save "https://github.com/ceyhunkerti/argz/archive/refs/tags/0.0.1.tar.gz"

Then in your build.zig file

...
const argz = b.dependency("argz", .{
    .target = target,
    .optimize = optimize,
});
exe.root_module.addImport("argz", argz.module("argz"));
...

To access help, add -h or --help option. This will print the attached help for the current command.

See examples/help.zig