argp-standalone ☆

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Description:
Standalone version of arguments parsing functions from GLIBC

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 1.5.0@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: cli argument-parsing library portability gnu

Install: brew install argp-standalone

About:
argp-standalone provides the argument parsing functionality from the GNU C Library (GLIBC) as a portable, standalone library. It allows developers to build robust command-line interfaces with features like automatic help and usage message generation. This is particularly useful for projects that require GLIBC's argp capabilities but cannot depend on GLIBC itself.

Key Features:

Portability: Enables GLIBC's argp on non-GLIBC systems like macOS and BSD
Standards-compliant: Supports standard GNU argument parsing conventions
Feature-rich: Handles optional and required arguments, options, and automatic help generation
Lightweight: Minimal dependencies for integration into existing projects

Use Cases:

Porting Linux applications that use GLIBC's argp to macOS or other BSD systems
Building new command-line tools with robust, standard-compliant argument parsing
Maintaining software that requires consistent CLI behavior across different Unix-like platforms

Alternatives:

getopt – Standard POSIX utility, but less feature-rich and lacks automatic help generation
libclargs – Modern alternative with similar goals, but argp-standalone is a direct GLIBC port

License: LGPL-2.1-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain

Bottles available for: arm64_tahoe, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_ventura, arm64_monterey, sonoma, ventura, monterey

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 10, 2025 11:18pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	282df4a1