quire

quire is a parser generator for configuration files.

State

Alpha (it's ok to use in production as long as your config doesn't come from untrusted party)

Documentation

http://quire.readthedocs.org/

Parsing configuration files is uneasy work. There are a lot of configuration file parsers, but syntax of most of them is ugly. Also all parsers I have seen before, require you fetch every option from configuration library and copy it to your own structure. Also it's not easy to make reusable parts for configuration file (they have only scalar variables usually). So...

• We use YAML for configuration files
• We generate C structure, already typed appropriately, for your config
• Command-line parser is generated automatically (command-line overrides configuration file options)
• We use YAML config, to configure parser itself. So you decide the types of options, constraints, and command-line argument names
• Code, to print runtime configuration (including command-line overrides) is also made
• YAML has rich set of data types (arrays, mappings) which we use to make config useful (compare it with old .ini files)
• We use YAML-builtin anchors to make reusable parts
• We have extended YAML with runtime variables, substring substitution (and we some simple mathematical expressions too)

All this to meet the following goals:

• Embed configuration in your own application with ease
• Add each option only in one place
• Document it just as easy as adding

The quire library is successor to old coyaml library of the same author

Build Instructions

Build process is done with cmake:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make
make install