In order to generate doxygen based documentation, you need to follow four steps. You can also use doxygen for creating normal documentation as i did for the doxygen user manual and. The documentation is written within code, and is thus relatively easy to keep up to date. Numbered lists can also be generated by using a minus followed by a hash. I ended up something similar to that of opencv, which looks quite nice, but it still does not have many features of that of doxygen user manual. Doxygen provides a number of ways to create lists of items. To avoid this warning please update your configuration file using doxygen u warning. The user manual should be the doxygen mainpage of the package. This makes your life easier not only for potential users of your code, but also. When you run cmake, corresponding files doxyfileuser, doxyfilelib, doxyfilefull, doxyfiledev are generated at the corresponding location in. How to use doxygen to generate documentation code yarns. All these steps will be explained in the following.
Then, in the top directory of your source tree run. Run doxygen g g to create a configuration file named g. This explains how to setup for github projects which automatically generates doxygen code documentation and publishes the documentation to the ghpages branch using travis ci. Doxygen is even flexible enough to create user level documentation files.
Section installation discusses how to download, compile and install doxygen for your platform section getting started tells you how to generate your first piece of documentation quickly section documenting the code demonstrates the various ways that code can be documented section markdown support show the markdown formatting supported by doxygen. Using doxygen, a developer can create the document using doxygen gui or doxygen command. Doxygen is even flexible enough to create userlevel documentation files. Get doxygen and put it somewhere on your hard disk. Creating documentation from xml comments using doxygen. Section linking to external documentation explains how to let doxygen create links to externally. Ruff doxygen advantages the documentation is embedded in the source code, making it harder to lose, and immediately accessible to persons reading that code. A breath of fresh air for documentation techrepublic. Depending on how you install doxygen, you may be prompted for optional addons, including doxywizard and graphviz. Section linking to external documentation explains how to let doxygen create links to externally generated documentation.
I like to configure it to output to a subdirectory like dochtml. Generate vhdl doxygen documentation in sigasi sigasi. Lists doxygen has a number of ways to create lists of items. Add the examples a shown in the html chm documentation also to the latex pdf documentation. By putting a number of columnaligned minus signs at the start of a line, a bullet list will automatically be generated. But it is also pretty great for generating user documentation, as is apparent from the doxygen documentation itself. For example, pagesection index on the left and page wise table of content on the right. This post is dedicated to developers because after reading this post developers life will easy to create the document directly from the code. They can serve as tutorials for understanding how to use graphviz, but the most uptodate documentation is provided in the online pages listed above. Doxygen is as everybody knows, the defacto standard for generating api documentation from source code comments. I am using doxygen to comment my header files however, my understanding of doxygen is limited and i know it is possible to make very nice html output from it.
Before you can generate documentation with doxygen, you need to create a doxygen configuration file first. Documentation of the public apis of the simulator tutorial, manual this document, and model library for thelatest releaseanddevelopment tree ns3 wiki. The links that are automatically generated by doxygen always have the name of the object they point to as linktext. Section frequently asked questions gives answers to frequently asked questions. Doxygen parses the source code and can warn you when documentation is missing for code constructs or when they are out of sync. Doxygen then presents a convenient user interface to build the configuration file that defines how you want to document your project. Doxygen does not generate documentation for my c functions. You can also use doxygen for creating normal documentation as i did for the doxygen user manual and website. Confusingly enough, doxygen accepts several different standards, but the default is the one that looks most like javadoc, the comment, which is fine. If you omit this name, it will default to doxyfile without an extension. Following the doxygen manual convention, the command arguments are enclosed here in braces that signify the extent of the argument, these braces. Doxygen also ships with a gui tool named doxywizard that makes it easy to create a configuration file and generate documentation for the first time. Creating documentation with doxygen part 1 learning tree blog. Jul 03, 20 doxygen is as everybody knows, the defacto standard for generating api documentation from source code comments.
Autodeploying doxygen documentation to ghpages with travis ci. For line comment just insert a triple forward slash. Nov 12, 20 how to create pdf document from doxygen. See section doxygen usage for more detailed usage information the executable doxytag is only needed if you want to generate references to external documentation i. Doxygen the wellautomated arduino library adafruit. A few general template doxygen pages have been created to help you document. And with the really good markdown support in recent versions, it is no longer necessary to write the documentation in fake code. Section getting started tells you how to generate your first piece of documentation quickly. Doxygen is not very user friendly when it comes to input errors. These next few lines will form a comment block to start a new paragraph add an empty line to end the comment block. The first two documents are not current with the features and details of graphviz. Sometimes doxygen just stops generating documentation at some point in your source for no obvious reason.
Doxygen can also visualize the relations between the various elements by means of include dependency graphs, inheritance diagrams, and collaboration diagrams, which are all generated automatically. Dec 19, 2002 doxygen is even flexible enough to create userlevel documentation files. In order to generate doxygen based documentation, you need to. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual by albertgithub.
Section installation discusses how to download, compile and install doxygen for your platform. All files related to doxygen reside in the docs doxygen subdirectory in the source and build trees. Id like to help improve the use of doxygen in blender main. Doxygen special commands, with a few exceptions, begin with the pre. Section documenting the code demonstrates the various ways that. 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. Doxygen does not generate documentation for my c functions or any global function submitted by alexis wilke on wed, 022020 01. This manual is divided into three parts, each of which is divided into several sections.
Doxywizard is a convenient graphical user interface gui for configuring and running doxygen and graphviz is a plotting package that will enable you to generate inheritance diagrams and call trees. Primary documentation for the ns3 project is available in. Whats the penalty for words like recursion,subclass,operator requirements. The \link command can be used to create a link to an object a file, class, or member with a user specified linktext. The doxygen user manual was created by, as the tools creator puts it, abusing it. How to document your code using doxygen flc wiki desy. May 06, 2019 the user manual should be the doxygen mainpage of the package. Instead, docbook is used to create the manual and the faq, and doxygen is used to construct the api reference. Following the doxygen manual convention, the command arguments are enclosed here in. In the command line, go to active record folder and execute the following command. A number of short descriptions of what the user expects. On the project page, enter your working directory as your xcode project directory, set the project name and directory for source code.
This line will be included in the doxygen comments for this functionclassfile. The executable doxygen is the main program that parses the sources and generates the documentation. Once this file is properly configured, you are ready to generate nicely rendered documentation of your code. Doxygen uses special comments to flag keywords that help the tool create documentation. When you run cmake, corresponding files doxyfile user, doxyfilelib, doxyfilefull, doxyfiledev are generated at the corresponding location in. For creating the document, we are going to cover the doxygen utility.
Section documenting the code demonstrates the various ways that code can be documented. Create html documentation in its own folder open docconfigdoxyfile. Windows users might find it easier to use this tool. I am trying to write user manual tutorial for my library using doxygen something similar to the user manual of the doxygen itself. After updating the config file with doxygen u i get. Chocolatey is trusted by businesses to manage software deployments. It can be used to create userdefined text sections which are automatically. For example, pagesection index on the left and page wise table of. Tips for writing doxygen documentation rosettacommons. In a freshly checked out source tree, this directory contains various doxyfile. In the doxygen manual these variables are called tags.
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