How do I create a doxygen document?

In order to generate doxygen based documentation, you need to follow four steps:

1. have the doxygen executable installed on your computer (this is already done on our DESY machines)
2. document your code.
3. create a configuration file.
4. run doxygen to create the documentation (HTML or LaTeX based).

What is doxygen configuration file?

A configuration file is a free-form ASCII text file with a structure that is similar to that of a Makefile , with the default name Doxyfile . It is parsed by doxygen . The file may contain tabs and newlines for formatting purposes. The file essentially consists of a list of assignment statements.

What is doxygen HTML?

Doxygen (/ˈdɒksidʒən/ DOK-see-jən) is a documentation generator and static analysis tool for software source trees. When used as a documentation generator, Doxygen extracts information from specially-formatted comments within the code.

How do I view doxygen documents?

The generated HTML documentation can be viewed by pointing a HTML browser to the index. html file in the html directory.

How do you open a Doxygen GUI?

Do this by switching to the Run tab, and click the “Run doxygen” button. Once doxygen runs you can cancel it by clicking the same button again. The output produced by doxygen is captured and shown in the “Output produced by doxygen” pane. Once doxygen finishes, the log can be saved as a text file.

Where is Doxygen installed?

Binaries are installed into the directory /usr/local/bin , man pages in /usr/local/man/man1 and documentation in /usr/local/doc/doxygen To change this just edit the Makefile. You need the GNU install tool for this to work (it is part of the coreutils package).

How to get a single PDF document from Doxygen?

Patel is right – you need to run Doxygen, then Latex of some sort to create the single doc. For me, using Doxygen 1.7.3, the root file for the latex build seems to be “refman.tex”.

What kind of directories can Doxygen create?

Doxygen will create a html, rtf, latex and/or man directory inside the output directory. As the names suggest these directories contain the generated documentation in HTML, RTF, and Unix-Man page format.

Can you use doxygen to generate cross references?

Doxygen will generate such cross-references if you set the SOURCE_BROWSER tag to YES. It can also include the sources directly into the documentation by setting INLINE_SOURCES to YES (this can be handy for code reviews for instance). Doxygen will create a html, rtf, latex and/or man directory inside the output directory.

Why is refman.pdf not created in Doxygen?

If refman.pdf is not created, run make.bat from a command window and read the errors. Errors like: ‘pdflatex’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, Mean that you do not have the prerequisites to run latex at all. Other errors may be due to missing latex packages or doxygen bugs causing invalid .tex files.