catch2/examples/232-Cfg-CustomMain.cpp
Martin Hořeňovský 863c662c0e
Fix adding Opts with | to lvalue Parser
This is the recommended way of adding new Opts in our documentation
for using custom main, but we did not compile the code to see if it
works. We now compile the example as part of the BUILD_EXAMPLES
option.

Fixes #2787
2024-01-02 23:27:13 +01:00

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// Copyright Catch2 Authors
// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
// (See accompanying file LICENSE.txt or copy at
// https://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSL-1.0
// 232-Cfg-CustomMain.cpp
// Show how to use custom main and add a custom option to the CLI parser
#include <catch2/catch_session.hpp>
#include <iostream>
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
Catch::Session session; // There must be exactly one instance
int height = 0; // Some user variable you want to be able to set
// Build a new parser on top of Catch2's
using namespace Catch::Clara;
auto cli
= session.cli() // Get Catch2's command line parser
| Opt( height, "height" ) // bind variable to a new option, with a hint string
["--height"] // the option names it will respond to
("how high?"); // description string for the help output
// Now pass the new composite back to Catch2 so it uses that
session.cli( cli );
// Let Catch2 (using Clara) parse the command line
int returnCode = session.applyCommandLine( argc, argv );
if( returnCode != 0 ) // Indicates a command line error
return returnCode;
// if set on the command line then 'height' is now set at this point
std::cout << "height: " << height << std::endl;
return session.run();
}