Note that the actual documentation consists in comments you write in the header file. If you know other projects, let me know and ill add them. What is going wrong is that when latex output is generated, no refman. Sometimes doxygen just stops generating documentation at some point in your source for no obvious reason. In my final document i would like to have references of the kind for more information look at figure 3. It is highly recommended that you document your code. The rest of this document talks about the doxygen commands that you need for each of the two kinds. Building doxygen under cygwin on 64bit vista system does not give any problem. Doxygen develop generating latex pdf documentation of doxygen doxygen develop generating latex pdf documentation of doxygen. In addition to the guidelines in the preceding sections, the following additional style guidelines should be considered when writing documentation as part of standalone text files. Dear all, i just checked out the last version of doxygen 1. Doxygen usage example for c i have been using doxygen for a while now, but i keep forgetting bit and pieces of it.
Contribute to doxygendoxygen development by creating an account on github. These are part of a larger list of projects that use doxygen. To improve the pdf output, you typically would want to enable the. Diagrams and images in doxygen ales nosek the software. Creating documentation using doxygen in ubuntu ranvir singh. In this video i show you how to install, setup a doxygen config file and then create your html and pdf documents. Doxygen is not very user friendly when it comes to input errors. A single statement goes here to give a highlevel description of the function, which is ended by the first period.
This makes your life easier not only for potential users of your code, but also for you, if you are going to reuse your code after a long period of time. Doxygen advantages the documentation is embedded in the source code, making it harder to lose, and immediately accessible to persons reading that code. In the last article of the doxygen miniseries well go over a couple of options how to include diagrams and images in doxygen documentation. Learning doxygen for source code documentation ibm developer. Let us take castle active record as an example, it has extensive xml documentation, so it is a good candidate. Here are a number of examples of html output generated by doxygen. Generate a pdf version of the manual you will need pdflatex, makeindex, and egrep for this. Have a look in the html folder, and you should see an examples folder in there. Knowing this helps you to understand what kind of layouts dot makes and how you can control them. For each project that uses doxygen, you must create a configuration file. Doxygenusers missing refman tex file for pdf output. Doxygen documentation for your programs installing. For that i think i need to be able to generate an id for the image in the docbook document. I use it as a header prototype for the box compiler, which i am currently developing.
Doxygen quick reference kutztown university of pennsylvania. These examples show javadoc style tags, c macro substitution and link to external documentation. Doxygen sample configuration file to extract everything. For more detailed information and to download the doxygen program go to the doxygen website. Glast software has adopted doxygen as our code documentation tool. Doxygen supports a number of output formats where html is the most popular one. Bankmann, unger documentation with doxygen december 15, 2014 8 9. See the gnu general public license for more details. Doxygen is a useful tool to automatically generate documentation for code.
Is it possible to obtain a single pdf document, organized as a book, roughly as the. Doxygen can be an amazing tool for disciplined embedded software developers seeking to quickly generate a software manual that stays in. In order to show the graphical capabilities of doxygen i created a sample project. When used in conjunction with graphviz, doxygen will generate small uml class diagrams embeded within the documentation. Tags using the \tagname style are considered qt style doxygen tags. This book contains many real life examples derived from the authors experience as a linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. While i left it disabled for the default, you shoud try it. Note that the default doxygen configuration takes hours to build. For example you can give a name to your project using this file. Here is a short example showing all the elements together.
Section documenting the code demonstrates the various ways that code can be. Doxygen will pass the text on to dot and include the resulting image and image map into the output. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual by albertgithub. This is a simple guide to basic use of doxygen compliant commenting of source code. Formulas can be included within the text of a single line, for example r p x. When i generate doxygen documentation in pdf format, i get plenty of different files with a single diagram in each. Here are the steps required to generate documentation from the xml comments. The nodes of a graph can be made clickable by using the url attribute. Tips for writing doxygen documentation rosettacommons. Install miktex from url select working directory to saveselect setting file fill project name select source code directory from where documentation has to. This is useful for generating html documentation andor an offline reference manual from a set of documented source files. Hello, in my workflow i transform the xml output from doxygen to a docbook xml document this is done with a custom xsl transform.
Doxygen is a tool that can generate project documentation in html, pdf or latex from code comments formatted with doxygen markup syntax. Doxygen provides a wide variety of options for documenting code and can be adapted for general documentation as well. Get doxygen and put it somewhere on your hard disk. Lets get to 300 subs by the end of the year here is the doxygen. I think this is because of the layout of the source files being different from the binaries, and. So i started to look at doxygen but was quickly put off by two major flaws. A silly c program to use for demonstrating doxygen. There are three ways you can use that file to get a book out of doxygen. Progress will be displayed, please wait till doxygen has finished is displayed. This page will give you a basic summary of some of the things youll need to know about doxygen. Doxygen special commands, with a few exceptions, begin with the pre.
Doxygen can include latex formulas in the html and latex output formats. When doxygen is finished processing, in the latex directory theres a file called refman. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual add the examples a shown in the html chm documentation also to the latex pdf documentation. Fetching latest commit cannot retrieve the latest commit at this time. The layout procedure used by dot relies on the graph being acyclic. The documentation is written within code, and is thus relatively easy to keep up to date.
For example \brief a brief description in one short sentence. 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. Following the doxygen manual convention, the command arguments are enclosed here in braces that signify the extent of the argument, these braces. I have a page with a section describing an information message. Aug 31, 2015 you do not have to comment individual variable instances but are welcome to if youd like. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual doxygendoxygen. Html isnt the only format that doxygen can generate. If html output is all you want, that is great, but often enough you would like to get a pdf that you can send to the printers, get a stack of paper back and then lobe at unsuspecting people at random often with calls of rtfm. Great now this is the time to generate the documentation.
The command takes the name of an include file as an argument. It can produce beautiful documentation if the code comments are written in its custom format. Doxygen parses the source code and can warn you when documentation is missing for code constructs or when they are out of sync. Doxygen is a tool for writing software reference documentation. Text files must contain doxygen at least one comment block. The doc subdirectory also contains three directories. Ive gathered some nice examples of reallife projects using doxygen. Doxygen usage example for c matteo franchins corner. Add the examples a shown in the html chm documentation also to the latex pdf documentation. Diagrams and images liven up technical documentation and help the reader to better understand the subject. Ive gathered some nice examples of reallife projects. The configuration file has a format that is similar to that of a simple makefile. There should be a header file containing only doxygen tags or a separate doxygen file that acts as a guide for the components, classes, methods, and variables e. If you just want to build the doxygen pages in the doc directory make the following substitution in the doxyfile in the main mini directory.
For this reason, i put together one single c header file which contains some doxygen code snippets. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources. First, well describe what we expect to see and then talk about the specific commands that you need to use including simple examples. To structure and fomat the generated documentation, doxygen provides a large number 170 of special commands. Doxygen sample configuration file to extract everything github. The subdirectory doc within the main source directory contains makefile. The brief description may also be repeated here immediately pr. To use doxygen, you write comments in code using the format that doxygen understands. However, you can make this even more useful by embedding documentation on how to use your classes right in the code itself. Where doxygen is the name of file we generated earlier. This is an old version of the project 1 starter code, presented in order to demonstrate doxygen i. Aspnetcore tool to use to generate pdf file from view. If doxygen is in your path simply issue the command. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.
Doing nothing, doxygen will produce a nice cross referenced htmlized version of the code. Documenting your code is a critical part of development, but too many developers pay too little attention to proper commenting. By using the command \ref inside the url value you can conveniently link to an item inside doxygen. The examples together show many of the features of doxygen. Pull request this branch is 11 commits ahead, 1495 commits behind doxygen. 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. I did this when creating the companion sample, so you can see how doxygen and javadoc produce similar results. Any further description of the function, such as this statement that comes after the first statement, will appear as part of the detailed description for this function. The idea is to accumulate examples in there and use it as a quick reference.
Im trying to generate a pdf documentation of our project here. Doxygen can generate an online class browser in html andor a reference manual in latex from a set of documented source files. Doxygen sample configuration file to extract everything doxyfile. Code examples provided in documentation must conform to the style guide. This page provides a summary of some of the things youll need to know. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the linux system and that you feel encouraged to try. Markup doxygen uses markdowns formatting syntax, e. Dec 15, 2014 project structure projectfolder bin doc lib src test doxy le make le bankmann, unger documentation with doxygen december 15, 2014 3 9. How to use doxygen to generate documentation code yarns. Doxygen is very useful for maintaining and understanding your own larger projects as well as useful documentation for others who use your code. For an example, the doxygen source for this style guide can be found in docmanualstyle.
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