ASSA-GENESIS(1)

💖 ASSA-GENESIS(1) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because assa-genesis is that girl 💅 — she generates skeleton files for RAD development with the ASSA library. no cap, she just hands you a whole starter pack and you get to be the main character. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

assa-genesis [OPTIONS] <app_name>

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. one app name and a pile of options. 🦋

🎀 USAGE 🎀

so like, by default she's gonna birth four files for you. four! iconic behaviour. 🙌

• <app_name>-main.h — the header file, and it's holding the debug tracing masks
• <app_name>-main.cpp — this one's got the 'main()' function with the event loop in it
• <app_name>.h — header file for the class <app_name> (yes girl, your very own class 👑)
• <app_name>.cpp — implementation stubs for that same class <app_name>

and THEN, plot twist, if the --gtk2-app option was specified, she also generates the MainWindow class. obsessed:

• MainWindow.h — the MainWindow class declaration
• MainWindow.cpp — the MainWindow class definition

now if you use the {-t, --one-file} switch, everything gets crammed into one single file: <app_name>.cpp. it's giving "i don't have time for folders". she says this is primarily used for writing test programs. 🧪

also pls pls pls check out the ASSA User's Guide for further details, she said it not me 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

one bullet per flag, no skipping, we respect the lore here:

• --with-example — adds an example of processing positional command-line arguments. learn by looking, periodt.
• --with-gpl-license — (Default!) generates the files with GPL license headers.
• --with-lgpl-license — generates the files with LGPL license headers instead.
• --with-x11-license — generates the files with X11-type license headers.
• --with-makefile — generates a GNUmakefile.<app-name> file. build system bestie 🛠️
• --gtk2-app — generates a Gtkmm2-2.4 ready application. fancy.
• -o, --one-file — put everything in one file. all of it. no crumbs.
• -e, --extension STRING — set the file extension for C++ code (C, cxx, ...). you pick, she obeys 💅
• -h, --help — print the help message. when in doubt, ask for help, it's healthy.
• -v, --version — print the version number. so you know exactly which era of her you're dealing with ⭐

💜 AUTHOR 💜

the original program was written by Vladislav Grinchenko — legend behaviour, we stan. 💐

this manual page was written by Miriam Ruiz <little_miry@yahoo.es>, for the Debian project (but it may be used by others — sharing is caring, bestie 🫶).

okay that's the whole page, thanks for coming to my ted talk. this icon was documented by Miriam Ruiz back in June 2005 and it still ate fr fr. mwah 💋✨ 🎀