It is useful for generating html documentation andor an offline reference manual from a set of documented source files. How to use doxygen to generate documentation code yarns. Looks like that doxygen is creating some non understood code. A directive is an instruction for make to do something special while reading the makefile. Using make and writing makefiles swarthmore college.
The configuration file has a format that is similar to that of a simple makefile. Extend the makefile to generate a library and documentation. Document your cmake code within doxygen esnault jerome. See section doxygen usage for more detailed usage information optionally, the executable doxywizard can be used, which is a graphical frontend for editing the configuration file that is used by doxygen and for running doxygen in a graphical environment. Im using a mac to do the latex and doxygen bit by writing make f makefile in the terminal when i am in the doxygen latex output directory. Generate a pdf version of the manual you will need pdflatex, makeindex, and egrep for this. Im working on a fairly big open source rts game engine. This works, however i also have some doxygen style comments in my code, and i want my makefile to automatically generate the html page with the documentation. Doxygen is a utility that extracts documentation from source files. Look for the binary distribution for your operating system.
Doxygen can be downloaded from the doxygen download page. The simplest way to convert a docbook to pdf is to install the xslfo stylesheet to convert to fo format, and fop to convert fo to pdf. However, if the project has multiple source file folders, there might be more than one makefile. Select doxyblocksopen preferences, and then select the doxyfile defaults tab. It can generate html output andor pdf output as well as a few other types. But following is the makefile used by doxygen to export a pdf file out of latex file. If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link. Before extracting documentation the first time, you will probably want to select a few other options. Programming assignment tips getting started doxygen makefiles. Doxygen combines the rtf output to a single file called refman. A complete reference for writing makefiles from simple to advanced features. It also generates a docdoxyfile in the build folder, which allows cmake to substitute some variables such as version number.
If you do not wish to edit the configuration file with a text editor, you should have. I run doxygen and then in latex folder i run the make file. If you do not wish to edit the config file with a text editor, you should have a look. Thankfully, even if this is not the case it can still produce documentation that can be useful for understanding a mass or mess of code. The simple makefile example shows a variable definition for objects as a list of all object files see variables make makefiles simpler. For more detailed information and to download the doxygen program go to the doxygen website. For the project i am documenting, the documentation does not make sense if you read the last group first. Quick setup to use doxygen with cmake victoria rudakova. To help with the latter, we will use the doxygen tool to generate. Generates indexed pdf documentation, and installs it as the following files. This file is optimized for importing into the microsoft word.
Our examples show c programs, since they are most common, but you can use make with any programming language whose compiler can be run with a shell command. Automatic project documentation you were previously added to the hyperv administrators security group, but the permissions have not taken effect. For some reason, the xslfo stylesheet is in the docbookxsldoc pdf package. For the project i am documenting, the documentation does not. The following makefile rules run doxygen to generate html docs, xml docs. Supported features are doxygen itself, dot for generating graphics, html for plain html, chm for compressed html help for ms users, chi for generating a separate. It should contain some user documentation files of markdown origin which are not located with the source folder. As i have understood, the makefile is the key to generating the documentation as a pdf, however i do not get it to work. Link the binary so it can be used on the path easily. Exporting doxygen to pdf using latex package inputenc error tex. You can run doxygen from the command line as long as you have a configuration file to use. I have set up doxygen and it runs generating a some 100.
You can avoid editors altogether by typing your log message on the command line with the. For each project that uses doxygen, you must create a configuration file. If you wish to tweak the doxygen settings, do so by editing docdoxygen. To use this makefile to delete the executable file and all the object files from the directory, type. It is probably a handcrafted file that can be found at doxygendoc subdirectory. Older versions of these files seem to be available at the autoconf macro archive, but these dont work as good. Bankmann, unger documentation with doxygen december 15, 2014 8 9. May 12, 2016 the documentation should be generated by a cmake file. Markup doxygen uses markdowns formatting syntax, e.
Doxygen users, i noticed the group documentation is sometimes generated in reverse order of declaration. Reading another makefile see including other makefiles. For each of your projects, you should include a makefile in your submission. The official doxygen site contains plenty of information on how to use the doxygen syntax so that to generate. Does there exist a wiki for editing doxygen comments. This is useful for generating html documentation andor an offline reference manual from a set of documented source files. Gnu makefile documentation lecture notes foundations of. This page provides a summary of some of the things youll need to know. Please sign out of your computer for the permissions to take effect. The executable doxygen is the main program that parses the sources and generates the documentation.
Makefile readme bin\ data\ doc\ include\ src\ created using doxygen g modify it after creation. These next few lines will form a comment block to start a new paragraph add an empty line to end the comment block. You will need the stream editor sed for this, but this should be available on. Docs generated with doxygen tend to be visually noisy, have a style out of the early nineties, and struggle to clearly represent complex templatebased apis. Doxygen is a useful tool to automatically generate documentation for code. A configuration file is a freeform ascii text file with a structure that is similar to that of a makefile, default name doxyfile. Doxygen has been around for a couple of decades and is a stable, featurerich tool for generating documentation. In this case the makefile will only contain a target to build refman. This a mirror of the subversion repository on coinor. Dec 15, 2014 bankmann, unger documentation with doxygen december 15, 2014 8 9. Laslabs blog ubuntu installing doxygen laslabs blog. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features.
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