How to use doxygen to generate documentation code yarns. Note that this file is about doxygen, and it is also processed by doxygen. Tool for automatic analysis and documentation of software. Coding practices should be in place to maintain a consistancy among software projects to enforce a disciplines which improves the quality of software, improves reuseability due to more generic interfaces and good documentation, results in software with fewer bugs which is easier to use and maintain. Tools cant solve this problem in themselves, but they can ease the pain.
Then if you scroll down to the documentation above setupui, the first few lines read. My company template includes header and footer and usually the copypaste of the doxygen documentation makes them disappear so i have to manually copypaste them back. Sometimes cruft is left over and latex is partitularly bad when dealing with leftover. Hello, i have been reading up on using doxygen to generate documentation for my programs and libraries. When doxygen is finished processing, in the latex directory theres a file called refman. Doxygen is a tool that can generate project documentation in html, pdf or latex from code comments formatted with doxygen markup syntax. This page will give you a basic summary of some of the things youll need to know about doxygen. The problem with this is that using xml comments usually means that i can move between tools and more importantly that i can get compiler errors if i didnt document a method. Learning doxygen for source code documentation ibm developer. This is a special page where you can add documentation concerning all the classes described by your doxygen page. Generate a pdf version of the manual you will need pdflatex. It also explains the structure of the dpdk documentation and shows how to build the html and pdf versions of the documents. Every file must have a file header documentation section as described in the coding standard document, the file headers.
For line comment just insert a triple forward slash. Sometimes doxygen just stops generating documentation at some point. Diagrams and images liven up technical documentation and help the reader to better understand the subject. Contribute to doxygendoxygen development by creating an account on github. Dpdk documentation guidelines data plane development. These type of comment blocks are more in line with the way documentation blocks work for the other languages supported by doxygen and this also allows the use of special commands. Joerg baumann, for adding conditional documentation blocks, pdf links, and the. A breath of fresh air for documentation techrepublic.
A natural subdivision is to create doxygen pages for each of the glast cmt packages. The idea is to accumulate examples in there and use it as a quick reference. The documentation is written within code, and is thus relatively easy to keep up to date. The source code is scanned for documented members and classes. Doxygen sample configuration file to extract everything doxyfile. Cs1703 multiple assemblies with equivalent identity have been imported.
For creating the document, we are going to cover the doxygen utility. Tags using the \tagname style are considered qt style doxygen tags. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual doxygendoxygen. Undocumented classes are excluded, this will very much reduce the clutter in the detailed documentaiton section. For an example, the doxygen source for this style guide can be found in docmanualstyle. Using doxygen to document computing projects youtube. Jan 17, 2018 in this video i show you how to install, setup a doxygen config file and then create your html and pdf documents. To simplify the creation of a configuration file, doxygen can create a template. Doxygen documentation for your programs installing. Doxygen special commands, with a few exceptions, begin with the pre. However, im not getting the documentation i am expecting. Generating this document taxes the underlying tex formatting system, and will require the expansion of texs memory capacity.
Lets get to 300 subs by the end of the year here is the doxygen website. It can produce beautiful documentation if the code comments are written in its custom format. In order to show the graphical capabilities of doxygen i created a sample project. Doxygen usage example for c matteo franchins corner. To structure and fomat the generated documentation, doxygen provides a large number 170 of special commands. Glast software has adopted doxygen as our code documentation tool.
Mar 16, 2015 a brief run through of using doxygen documentation tool to produce the technical documentation for your computing f454 and it unit 17 projects. 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. Be warned the pdf file generated via doxygen is extremely large. First, well describe what we expect to see and then talk about the specific commands that you need to use including simple examples. A brief run through of using doxygen documentation tool to produce the technical documentation for your computing f454 and it unit 17 projects. Well also integrate this process into a cmake build system so that we have a unified workflow.
Select doxyblocksextract documentation to generate and view the documentation. First, the user reads part 1 and gets some basic information. For each project that uses doxygen, you must create a configuration file. I have read through the manual on the doxygen website and i think im getting a handle on the syntax. 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. Aug 31, 2015 the rest of this document talks about the doxygen commands that you need for each of the two kinds. When i generate doxygen documentation in pdf format, i get plenty of different files with a single diagram in each. If any are found, the names are crossreferenced with the documentation. This makes your life easier not only for potential users of your. Im trying to find a template or plugin that might be able to correct this issue. The format is markdown format, that you can convert it to something else with. Lastly there will be a larger example showing all of commands together. A few general template doxygen pages have been created to help you document higher level concepts in rosetta. At last count, the pdf file is over three thousand pages.
If you dont document the namespace, then any classes and functions in the namespace wont get read by doxygen even if theyre documented. Doxygen usage example for c i have been using doxygen for a while now, but i keep forgetting bit and pieces of it. Generate a pdf version of the manual you will need pdflatex, makeindex, and egrep for this. By taking a few minutes as you are writing your code to write comment blocks you can tell future developers what you intended and make their life more productive and easier.
Add the examples a shown in the html chm documentation also to the latex pdf documentation. Diagrams and images in doxygen ales nosek the software. Creating documentation from xml comments using doxygen. Bankmann, unger documentation with doxygen december 15, 2014 8 9. It is highly recommended that you document your code.
It can generate an online documentation browser in html andor an offline reference manual in from a set of documented source files. Following the doxygen manual convention, the command arguments are enclosed here in braces that signify the extent of the argument, these braces. Part 3 is what our tool adds to the document, which is an io example. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual by albertgithub.
Documents produced by doxygen are derivative works derived from the input used in their production. Is it possible to obtain a single pdf document, organized as a. Markup doxygen uses markdowns formatting syntax, e. For this reason, i put together one single c header file which contains some doxygen code snippets. All these steps will be explained in the following. Doxygen can cross reference documentation and code, so that the reader of a document can easily refer to the actual code. Like javadoc, doxygen extracts documentation from source file comments. Using doxygen to document computing projects duration. In the last article of the doxygen miniseries well go over a couple of options how to include diagrams and images in doxygen documentation. In our example we only have a single class, but you can use doxygen on as many different classes as you choose.
Doxygen is not very user friendly when it comes to input errors. This document outlines the guidelines for writing the dpdk guides and api documentation in rst and doxygen format. Ffmpeg basics by frantisek korbel, describes various ffmpeg features and common tasks ffmpeg beginners handbook chinese version by steven liu, describes ffmpeg common use method in chinese, from command line to api usage. There are three ways you can use that file to get a book out of doxygen. There is also support for generating output in rtf msword, postscript, hyperlinked pdf, compressed html, and unix man pages. You can use other styles of documentation with doxygen, but the javadoc style is the most popular. Doxygen sample configuration file to extract everything. This tag supplies a brief description of a function for doxygen pages. For example \brief a brief description in one short sentence. For example i define switches like that in my doxyblah.
A breath of fresh air for documentation by lamont adams in developer on december 19, 2002, 12. These next few lines will form a comment block to start a new paragraph add an empty line to end the comment block. 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. This line will be included in the doxygen comments for this functionclass file. On the simplest level you can copy them to an appropriate location and fill in the fields with the appropriate information. You were previously added to the hyperv administrators security group, but the permissions have not taken. They can serve as tutorials for understanding how to use graphviz, but the most uptodate documentation is provided in the online pages listed above. 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. Once you done with configuration file changes then run command for the document generate.
Ive gathered some nice examples of reallife projects using doxygen. My make statements for doxygen latex pdf look like. Is it possible to obtain a single pdf document, organized as a book, roughly as the. If so then you have to instruct doxygens preprocessor to remove it. Here is the same example again but now using doxygen style comments.
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