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+# Copyright (c) 2020 Egor Tensin <Egor.Tensin@gmail.com>
+# This file is part of the "cmake-common" project.
+# For details, see https://github.com/egor-tensin/cmake-common.
+# Distributed under the MIT License.
+
+'''Supported platform/build system/compiler combinations include, but are not
+limited to:
+
+* Linux / make / Clang,
+* Linux / make / GCC,
+* Linux / make / MinGW-w64,
+* Windows / make / Clang (clang.exe & clang++.exe),
+* Windows / make / Clang (clang-cl.exe, Boost 1.69.0 or higher only),
+* Windows / make / MinGW-w64,
+* Windows / msbuild / MSVC,
+* Cygwin / make / Clang,
+* Cygwin / make / GCC,
+* Cygwin / make / MinGW-w64.
+'''
+
+import argparse
+from enum import Enum
+
+
+class ToolchainType(Enum):
+    AUTO = 'auto'   # This most commonly means GCC on Linux and MSVC on Windows.
+    MSVC = 'msvc'   # Force MSVC.
+    GCC = 'gcc'     # Force GCC.
+    MINGW = 'mingw' # As in MinGW-w64; GCC with the PLATFORM-w64-mingw32 prefix.
+    CLANG = 'clang'
+    CLANG_CL = 'clang-cl'
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.value
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def all():
+        return tuple(ToolchainType)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def parse(s):
+        try:
+            return ToolchainType(s)
+        except ValueError:
+            raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError(f'invalid toolset: {s}')