gengen(1)

gengen1

Manual page for gengen 1.4.3

Usage

gengen [OPTIONS] ...

Overview

GNU gengen 1.4.3

This program, given a skeleton source file with some parts to be replaced, generates a program that generates that source, and substitutes those parts as specified.

-h, --help

Print help and exit

-V, --version

Print version and exit

-i, --input=file

input file (default std input)

-F, --file-name=name

name used for generating file (default stdout)

-f, --gen-name=STRING

prefix for generated code (default=`gengen')

--output-format=lang

target language (cpp, c, lua) (default=`cpp')

--output-dir=STRING

output directory (default current dir)

--separate-files

output to separate files (header, source). require --file-name

--expand-tabs

strings containing newlines are indented according to the current indentation level

--no-gen-version

do not put gengen version in the generated file

--test-mode

even with errors exit with 0 (this is only for testing purposes)

--force

force regeneration of output code

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to Raman Gopalan <[email protected]>

From gengen 1.4.3-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.