You can get aligner to work on windows command line by inserting the following lines into aligner.ccp
after line 8: #include <queue>

#ifdef _WIN32
#include "getopt.h"
#endif

#include "edlib.h"

Then adding getopt.h file. The one I used is here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skandhurkat/Getopt-for-Visual-Studio/master/getopt.h although that's likely not the origin of the fi

Glyph is yet-another-character-type and should be supported in the majority of situations where Char and Rune are also supported. This means achieving near 100% parity for the functions.

That being said there are certain situations where a function reasonably expects a specific type and parity should not be implemented.