Doxygen usage doxygen is a command line based utility. An easy way to find the software is to type doxygen in the search bar in the software control centre. Configuration format a configuration file is a freeform ascii text file with a structure that is similar to that of a makefile, default name doxyfile. How to install and use doxygen doxygen easy tutorial youtube. Section installation discusses how to download, compile and install doxygen for your platform. By putting some specially crafted comment inside your code, it is possible to generate reference documentation automatically. I have a project that i have formatted for doxygen.
Doxygen documentation for your programs installing. This document serves as a brief overview of doxygen and the features you will use on a regular basis. The customdoxygencss open source project on open hub. Several different types of doxygen comments can be used. Using doxygen and mscgen to define some code github. The zip file you download contains two files, which you should extract into directory program files\ doxygen \bin.
Here you will be able to find at least 3 fields for download. Doxygen documentation cfd online discussion forums. The following sections provide guidelines for openocd developers who wish to write doxygen comments in the code or this manual. Using doxygen to document computing projects youtube. I keep the idea to apply my custom styles to the doxygen s rtf output. If the tag is left blank doxygen will generate a default style sheet. 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. Use it to run doxygen on a selected project and to search in doxygen generated documentation. To use it, replace the default doxygen csss with mine. You document your source code with special documentation blocks see section special. Creating an rtf document from microsoft word only requires that you use the save as feature in a very specific way. This is very useful to quickly find your way in large source distributions.
Complete guide on using doxygen to document c source code. Once installed you can configure the doxygen easily by the doxywizard. Users help understanding doxygens use of stylesheets doxygen. Doxygen for linux 64bit free download and software. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources, which makes it much easier to keep the documentation. Create an rtf document from microsoft word with help from a software expert in. In the following sections youll find the examples that describe some features of cryptsetup api. It was super easy to hook up, i could document both in code and in separate files and i could. For rtf output, you can generate the default style sheet file see. This modifies the lookandfeel of the default doxygen documentation pages. Easy documentation using doxygen wintergreen works.
Lr here is the full 1 minute stepbystep sequence to produce a totally lr clean document. Doxygen is a command line, open source documentationgenerator suitable for use with cstyle languages like. It can generate an online documentation browser in html andor an offline reference manual in from a set of documented source files. Use the custom rtf style sheet and custom doxygen configuration file. Learning doxygen for source code documentation ibm developer. This is my modification of the default doxygen css. The simple way to use this is to create a word global template a. Doxygen cheatsheet a quick cheatsheet for doxygen, adapted from 1. Doxygen can be an amazing tool for disciplined embedded software developers. This quick hack does not include all style sheet changes to make every possible doxygen output look like qt docs.
In this video i show you how to install, setup a doxygen config. Output can be html, latex, rtf msword, postscript, hyperlinked pdf, and unix man pages. By the way, does anybody know how to add citations to the documentation from doxygen using latex. Chocolatey is trusted by businesses to manage software deployments. This is a quick hack for a doxygen css stylesheet which makes the doxygen output look like a normal qt5 documentation. Tags using the \tagname style are considered qt style doxygen tags. The inheritance relationship and uml diagrams including, if necessary, graphviz download as well. I needed an easy way for consumers to read about the public apis. The template files should contain example code blocks and headers that. 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. The program directory is around 12 mb with docs and gui, and from the site is possible to download a noninstaller version. The file may contain tabs and newlines for formatting purposes. It extracts comments from program sources, and generates different output formats.
Configuration lr use the custom rtf style sheet and custom doxygen configuration file lr to generate the doxygen rtf output. Using doxygen with matlab file exchange matlab central. Graham reeds doxygen, a documentation system for c similar to javadoc. There is also support for generating output in rtf msword, postscript, hyperlinked pdf, compressed html, and unix man pages. You can configure doxygen to extract the code structure from undocumented source files.
Both, windows version, so the installer, just follow the install screen. Note that doxygen will try to copy the style sheet file to the html output directory, so dont put your own stylesheet in the html output directory as well, or it will be erased. For example, you can use doxygen to generate a template configuration file, to update an old configuration file, to generate documentation using an existing configuration file, to generate a template file controlling the layout of the generated documentation, to generate a template style sheet file for html, latex or rtf documents, as well as. Thanks for the shortcut, the feature is quite well hidden in the word 2010 menus. Chocolatey is software management automation for windows that wraps installers, executables, zips, and scripts into compiled packages. A brief run through of using doxygen documentation tool to produce the technical documentation for your computing f454 and it unit 17. For an introduction to doxygen documentation, see the doxygen primer. Im trying to modify doxygens stylesheet but am having trouble.
If your are creating latex or rtf then i dont know, but it sounds reasonable that it is possible. You can download it as a precompiled executable file, or you can check out. The resulting output can be in a linked html, rtf, or latex file that then. Calling doxygen with the help option at the command line will give you a brief description of the usage of the program. How to customize the very first page of the manual. Doxygen has many, many features, and accepts various syntaxes for its commands. There is also a string template engine, yes but it seems to be just an addition, for generating extra pages.
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