This can use be used in combination with the u option, to add or strip the documentation from an existing configuration file. With doxygen my project sources are the documentation. Section automatic link generation shows how to put links to files, classes, and members in the documentation. Only a fraction of the documented header file, the structures, actually appears in any doxygen output.
Documentation not appearing in doxygen output stack overflow. The following output formats are directly supported by doxygen. The latter only for the html output, which, however, is the most commonly used and preferred output format. This answer helps you avoid manually typing using a keyboard. After saving this file, i create a default configuration file with.
The doxygen output for all of the files that include a\block. Doxygen documentation generator leibnizrechenzentrum lrz. Comments may be placed anywhere within the file except within quotes. Doxygen will then use the output that the filter program writes to standard output. For the doxygen documentation, i have a html mainpage. Doxygen is using the comments in the code to generate the documentation. Doxygen documentation generator leibnizrechenzentrum. Pdf generated from the output by running make pdf in the output directory. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual doxygendoxygen. I was expecting my two functions to be documented here. This file is optimized for importing into the microsoft word. Configuration options related to the html output doxygen manual.
May 21, 2012 the second argument specifies the file name of the image. Then we edited it manually to add the application name, version and output directory. I advise you to let doxygen generate this file the first time. Doxygen users \image command with latex output from. Doxygen allows you to place this command in which ever comment you want. Some of the important things you need to pay attention to are. If you omit the file name, a file named doxyfile will be created. Doxygen doxygenusers \image command with latex output. Doxygen sample configuration file to extract everything github. The pdf file will contain links just like the html output instead of page references. Sep 04, 2019 the following output formats are directly supported by doxygen. This page provides a summary of some of the things youll need to know. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual by albert. There is html generated, but nothing is documented here.
Section output formats shows how to generate the various output formats supported by doxygen. In this case the makefile will only contain a target to build refman. To make doxygen readwrite to standard inputoutput instead of fromto a file, use for the file name. How to generate pdf documents from doxygen stack overflow. Section preprocessing explains how doxygen deals with macro definitions. In addition to the javadoc syntax, doxygen supports the documentation tags used in the qt toolkit and can generate output in hypertext markup language as well as in microsoft compiled html help chm, rich text format rtf, portable document format pdf, latex, postscript or man pages. Doxygen is a tool that can generate project documentation in html, pdf or latex from code comments formatted with doxygen markup syntax.
Please sign out of your computer for the permissions to take effect. Below i show how to insert images such that they appear in both html and pdfs generated by latex. Configure the rest of the wizard settings as usual. Doxygen file to put in the root of your directory not in. The idea is to accumulate examples in there and use it as a quick reference. Note that the image files must be placed in a location recognized by doxygen. Doxygen users multiple files with same file name on thu, jun 28, 2007 at 07. Glast software has adopted doxygen as our code documentation tool. Doxygen is a tool which allows to generate documentation from source code. Doxygen requires different image formats for the different output types. For pdf output, pdflatex is required as well as a number of tex packages such as texlivextab and texlivetocloft. Doxygen usage example for c matteo franchins corner. In order to generate pdf output or use scientific formulas you will also. Section searching shows various ways to search in the html documentation.
Doxygen uses a file called doxyfile to store its configuration. The source file of the main page, the socalled master document, of the web site must be named index. Whatever the program writes to standard output is used as the file version. Various output file formats like html, latex and pdf are supported. Ive noticed that im getting very weird output for my project when it comes to files that have the same name. Calling doxygen with the help option at the command line will give you a brief description of the usage of the program all options consist of a leading character, followed by one character and one or more arguments depending on the option to generate a manual for your project you typically need to follow these steps. We are going to cover both ways generate the document. Doxygen will invoke the filter program by executing via popen the command. For this reason, i put together one single c header file which contains some doxygen code snippets. The final step is to generate the documentation, by running. You can do this by executing the file program files\ doxygen \bin\ doxygen. Click on next, select latex and as intermediate format for pdf.
The file essentially consists of a list of assignment statements. There are three ways you can use that file to get a book out of doxygen. In wizard output, choose the output format as prepare for compressed html. I cant see anything in configuration settings or documentation that would assist in clarifying why doxygen does not place documented code from the header file into its generated output. Doxygen usage example for c i have been using doxygen for a while now, but i keep forgetting bit and pieces of it. If the image is found it will be copied to the correct output directory.
For more detailed information and to download the doxygen program go to the doxygen website. The first post we are cover gui only and next post will cover doxygen command. Jun 25, 2012 with doxygen my project sources are the documentation. Like javadoc, doxygen extracts documentation from source file comments. Automatic project documentation you were previously added to the hyperv administrators security group, but the permissions have not taken effect. Documenting the sources doxygenvisible multiline comment blocks begin with, or. Try doxygen next, set the input variable to point to the current directory. Easy documentation using doxygen wintergreen works. Please use the s option if you send me a configuration file as part of a bug report. The file may contain tabs and newlines for formatting purposes. If it is left blank doxygen will generate files with. Create chm file using doxygen solutions experts exchange.
Given that the project web site and manuals are generated by sphinx and only the more advanced reference documentation is generated by doxygen, this one directional linking of documentation pages is sufficient for most use cases. Clicking on next will open screen for diagram generator. Doxygen sample configuration file to extract everything. For creating the document, we are going to cover the doxygen utility. However, the glast convention is that the command goes into a file called mainpage. The second argument specifies the file name of the image. Doxygen generates makefile and supporting tex files, once the make is run successfully it will generate document in the name of refman.
Doxygen can generate an online documentation browser in html andor an offline reference manual from a set of documented source files. The file name may include part of the path if the name alone is not unique. There is also support for generating output in rtf ms. Learning doxygen for source code documentation ibm developer. When doxygen is finished processing, in the latex directory theres a file called refman. Once the source code is well formatted, the first thing to do is to create a config file for doxygen using the following command line in the source directory. Add the examples a shown in the html chm documentation also to the latex pdf documentation. 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.
A configuration file is a freeform ascii text file with a structure that is similar to that of a makefile, default name doxyfile. At last count, the pdf file is over three thousand pages. Doxygen combines the rtf output to a single file called refman. Be warned the pdf file generated via doxygen is extremely large. Configuration file well documented, you just need to fill in the blanks. Some commentary to accompany the first list in the special documentation blocks section of. It is a compiler which compiles source or text files and extracts the embedded information. Generate a pdf version of the manual you will need pdflatex, makeindex, and egrep for this. Apr 18, 2010 once the source code is well formatted, the first thing to do is to create a config file for doxygen using the following command line in the source directory. These standard rules generate html, pdf, xml, or man files. Doxygen usage doxygen is a command line based utility.
Documenting the sources doxygen visible multiline comment blocks begin with, or. Doxygen doxygenusers multiple files with same file name. If a source code file name is written in it, hyperlinks to. The generated documentation makes easier to navigate and understand the code as it may contain all public functions, classes, namespaces, enumerations, side notes and code examples. Remember that global functions, variables, typedefs etc. Using doxygen, a developer can create the document using doxygen gui or doxygen command.
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