.. _command-line:

Command line options
********************

Usage
-----

::

   shiboken [options] header-file typesystem-file


Options
-------

``--disable-verbose-error-messages``
    Disable verbose error messages. Turn the CPython code hard to debug but saves a few kilobytes
    in the generated binding.

.. _parent-heuristic:

``--enable-parent-ctor-heuristic``
    This flag enable an useful heuristic which can save a lot of work related to object ownership when
    writing the typesystem.
    For more info, check :ref:`ownership-parent-heuristics`.

.. _pyside-extensions:

``--enable-pyside-extensions``
    Enable pyside extensions like support for signal/slots. Use this if you are creating a binding based
    on PySide.

.. _return-heuristic:

``--enable-return-value-heuristic``
    Enable heuristics to detect parent relationship on return values.
    For more info, check :ref:`return-value-heuristics`.

.. _avoid-protected-hack:

``--avoid-protected-hack``
    Avoid the use of the '#define protected public' hack.

.. _use-isnull-as-nb_nonzero:

``--use-isnull-as-nb_nonzero``
    If a class have an isNull() const method, it will be used to
    compute the value of boolean casts

.. _api-version:

``--api-version=<version>``
    Specify the supported api version used to generate the bindings.

.. _documentation-only:

``--documentation-only``
    Do not generate any code, just the documentation.

.. _drop-type-entries:

``--drop-type-entries="<TypeEntry0>[;TypeEntry1;...]"``
    Semicolon separated list of type system entries (classes, namespaces,
    global functions and enums) to be dropped from generation.

.. _generation-set:

``--generation-set``
    Generator set to be used (e.g. qtdoc).

.. _skip-deprecated:

``--skip-deprecated``
    Skip deprecated functions.

.. _diff:

``--diff``
    Print a diff of wrapper files.

.. _dryrun:

``--dryrun``
    Dry run, do not generate wrapper files.

.. _--project-file:

``--project-file=<file>``
    Text file containing a description of the binding project.
    Replaces and overrides command line arguments.

.. _include-paths:

``-I<path>, --include-paths=<path>[:<path>:...]``
    Include paths used by the C++ parser.

... _system-include-paths:

``-isystem<path>, --system-include-paths=<path>[:<path>:...]``
    System include paths used by the C++ parser

.. _framework-include-paths:

``-F<path>, --framework-include-paths=<path>[:<path>:...]``
    Framework include paths used by the C++ parser

.. _language-level:

``--language-level=, -std=<level>``
    C++ Language level (c++11..c++17, default=c++14)

.. _typesystem-paths:

``-T<path>, --typesystem-paths=<path>[:<path>:...]``
    Paths used when searching for type system files.

.. _output-directory:

``--output-directory=[dir]``
    The directory where the generated files will be written.

.. _license-file=[license-file]:

``--license-file=[license-file]``
    File used for copyright headers of generated files.

.. _no-suppress-warnings:

``--no-suppress-warnings``
    Show all warnings.

.. _silent:

``--silent``
    Avoid printing any message.

.. _debug-level:

``--debug-level=[sparse|medium|full]``
    Set the debug level.

.. _help:

``--help``
    Display this help and exit.

.. _version:

``--version``
    Output version information and exit.

QtDocGenerator Options
----------------------

.. _doc-parser:

``--doc-parser=<parser>``
    The documentation parser used to interpret the documentation
    input files (qdoc|doxygen).

.. _documentation-code-snippets-dir:

``--documentation-code-snippets-dir=<dir>``
    Directory used to search code snippets used by the documentation.

.. _documentation-data-dir:

``--documentation-data-dir=<dir>``
    Directory with XML files generated by documentation tool.

.. _documentation-extra-sections-dir=<dir>:

``--documentation-extra-sections-dir=<dir>``
    Directory used to search for extra documentation sections.

.. _library-source-dir:

``--library-source-dir=<dir>``
    Directory where library source code is located.

.. _additional-documentation:

``--additional-documentation=<file>``
   List of additional XML files to be converted to .rst files
   (for example, tutorials).