The following snippet is from a little console app I wrote using the QT framework. Currently, it does not receive the arguments passed at the CLI.

Can anyone spot what I may be doing wrong?

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    //Q_INIT_RESOURCE(application);

    try {
        QApplication the_app(argc, argv);

        utility::option_values ov;
        QStringList cmdline_args = QCoreApplication::arguments();

        //attempt to parse arguments here, but cmdline_args is an empty list :(
        ov.parse_options(cmdline_args);

        // Code continues ...
    }
    } catch (utility::invalid_option&) {

        return 1;

    }

    return 0;
}

I am debugging using QtCreator 1.3