conf2struct | Create C parsers for libconfig and command-line | Configuration Management library

conf2struct is a C library typically used in Devops, Configuration Management applications. conf2struct has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

conf2struct takes a configuration file that describes a configuration file in the [libconfig] format, and generates a C parser that will read a configuration file directly into a C structure. The goal is to accept any file that is valid for libconfig, which in particular means using conf2struct does not introduce restrictions to what the configuration file should look like. It also generates a command line interpreter based on [argtable3] Currently it allows to create a configuration equivalent to that of the configuration file; eventually it will allow to override file settings from the command line. conf2struct manageѕ optional settings and default values. It is alpha and the configuration file format is bound to change dramatically. (A bit of history: [sslh] uses libconfig, which provides a C API. There are two downsides to that: with the increase of the number of settings, the code to read the configuration file grew and became harder to read, while being all mostly boilerplate code; also, every time it reads a setting libconfig traverses a tree doing string compares on the setting names, which is very inefficient for settings that get used very often: those setting need to be copied to a structure. Put both problems together, and you get this program as a solution by taking a step up.). See the [tutorial] tutorial.md) for a gentle introduction. This is more of a reference documentation.