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# Supplying main() yourself
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**Contents**<br>
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[Let Catch2 take full control of args and config](#let-catch2-take-full-control-of-args-and-config)<br>
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[Amending the Catch2 config](#amending-the-catch2-config)<br>
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[Adding your own command line options](#adding-your-own-command-line-options)<br>
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[Version detection](#version-detection)<br>
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The easiest way to use Catch2 is to use its own `main` function, and let
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it handle the command line arguments. This is done by linking against
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Catch2Main library, e.g. through the [CMake target](cmake-integration.md#cmake-targets),
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or pkg-config files.
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If you want to provide your own `main`, then you should link against
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the static library (target) only, without the main part. You will then
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have to write your own `main` and call into Catch2 test runner manually.
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Below are some basic recipes on what you can do supplying your own main.
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## Let Catch2 take full control of args and config
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This is useful if you just need to have code that executes before/after
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Catch2 runs tests.
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```cpp
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#include <catch2/catch_session.hpp>
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int main( int argc, char* argv[] ) {
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// your setup ...
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int result = Catch::Session().run( argc, argv );
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// your clean-up...
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return result;
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}
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```
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_Note that if you only want to run some set up before tests are run, it
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might be simpler to use [event listeners](event-listeners.md#top) instead._
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## Amending the Catch2 config
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If you want Catch2 to process command line arguments, but also want to
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programmatically change the resulting configuration of Catch2 run,
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you can do it in two ways:
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```c++
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int main( int argc, char* argv[] ) {
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Catch::Session session; // There must be exactly one instance
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// writing to session.configData() here sets defaults
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// this is the preferred way to set them
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int returnCode = session.applyCommandLine( argc, argv );
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if( returnCode != 0 ) // Indicates a command line error
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return returnCode;
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// writing to session.configData() or session.Config() here
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// overrides command line args
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// only do this if you know you need to
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int numFailed = session.run();
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// numFailed is clamped to 255 as some unices only use the lower 8 bits.
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// This clamping has already been applied, so just return it here
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// You can also do any post run clean-up here
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return numFailed;
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}
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```
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If you want full control of the configuration, don't call `applyCommandLine`.
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## Adding your own command line options
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You can add new command line options to Catch2, by composing the premade
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CLI parser (called Clara), and add your own options.
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```cpp
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int main( int argc, char* argv[] ) {
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Catch::Session session; // There must be exactly one instance
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int height = 0; // Some user variable you want to be able to set
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// Build a new parser on top of Catch2's
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using namespace Catch::Clara;
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auto cli
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= session.cli() // Get Catch2's command line parser
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["-g"]["--height"] // the option names it will respond to
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("how high?"); // description string for the help output
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// Now pass the new composite back to Catch2 so it uses that
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session.cli( cli );
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// Let Catch2 (using Clara) parse the command line
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int returnCode = session.applyCommandLine( argc, argv );
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if( returnCode != 0 ) // Indicates a command line error
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return returnCode;
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// if set on the command line then 'height' is now set at this point
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if( height > 0 )
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std::cout << "height: " << height << std::endl;
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return session.run();
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}
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```
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See the [Clara documentation](https://github.com/catchorg/Clara/blob/master/README.md)
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for more details on how to use the Clara parser.
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## Version detection
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Catch2 provides a triplet of macros providing the header's version,
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* `CATCH_VERSION_MAJOR`
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* `CATCH_VERSION_MINOR`
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* `CATCH_VERSION_PATCH`
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these macros expand into a single number, that corresponds to the appropriate
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part of the version. As an example, given single header version v2.3.4,
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the macros would expand into `2`, `3`, and `4` respectively.
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---
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