Cobra Command Line Options

cobra -h

or

cobra -help

will dump a page detailing all the command line options supported.

The compiler runs for each invocation in a particular mode of operation. These correspond to the 'commands on paths'

• -compile or -c - compile the provided files and bind into an executable
• -run-exe or -r - as for -compile but run the executable after successful compilation. This is the default mode if none other is given
• -test - as for -compile but run the executables test cases after successful execution
• -document - parse the provided files and generate documentation from the parse tree

In addition there are three standalone commands

• -help or -h - display the cobra commandline options and descriptions
• -about - display info about cobra
• -version - display the cobra executables version information

Commandline items that are not options ( begin with '-') are taken to be filenames. Cobra can take one or a list of commandline given files to compile and the files can be cobra code ( filename ends in '.cobra') or C# code ( filename ends in '.cs'. Filenames without any extension are assumed to be a cobra code file of the same name with a '.cobra' extension

i.e

cobra myProg.cobra 
cobra myProg

both do the same thing - compile a cobra code file myProg.cobra to an executable and run it (if compilation succeeds)

Options

options form : -option:value, synonyms

TODO Sections

• Files:file
• Controlling type of executable built -target/-t
• Providing references and library search path -reference/-ref -library-directory/-lib -embed-run-time/-ert
• Controlling compilation -include-{asserts, nil-checks, tests}
  • -optimize/-o -debug/-d -turbo/-t
  • -keep-intermediate-files/-kif
  • -contracts -verbosity/-v
• Specifying executable and args for it -run-args/-- and -run
• Error handling -detailed-stack-trace/dst -debugging-tips -exception-report -reveal-internal-exceptions
• Development cycle - colorize -editor
• Back end -sharp-compiler -sharp-args

Examples