File containing example of doxygen usage for quick reference. There is also support for generating output in rtf msword, postscript, hyperlinked pdf. I was expecting my two functions to be documented here. After a fairly short interval, doxygen opens up your favorite browser with documentation like that shown in the following figure. Doxygen recognizes other comment formats as well i chose the above for both personal taste and compliance with those understood in. 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. It reads the well formatted and special doxygen comments to create the required documentation. Creating documentation using doxygen in ubuntu ranvir singh.
The price you pay for not putting the documentation block directly before or after an item is the need to put a. Doxygen scans your projects filefolder tree and prepares a website like documentation. Tags using the \tagname style are considered qt style doxygen tags. Add the examples a shown in the html chm documentation also to the latex pdf documentation. You can then host the docs generated onto a real web site.
A documentation generator is a programming tool that generates documentation intended for programmers api documentation or end users enduser guide, or both, from a set of specially commented source codes. First, well describe what we expect to see and then talk about the specific commands that you need to use including simple examples. Be aware that people read documentation as a last resort, and to solve a problem. Documentation generators a documentation generator is a programming tool that generates documentation intended for programmers api documentation or end users enduser guide, or both, from a set of specially commented source codes. It can produce beautiful documentation if the code comments are written in its custom format. For more advanced diagrams and graphs, doxygen can use the dot tool from graphviz. Doxygen usage example for c matteo franchins corner. All classes files functions variables typedefs enumerations enumerator. For an introduction to doxygen documentation, see the doxygen primer. This document serves as a brief overview of doxygen and the features you will use on a regular basis. There is html generated, but nothing is documented here. This documentation is very important for the new developers who want to help in the development of the project.
You can add documentation tags as comments in your code. For this reason, i put together one single c header file which contains some doxygen code snippets. When i generate doxygen documentation in pdf format, i get plenty of different files with a single diagram in each. Several different types of doxygen comments can be used. You can output documentation in html, rtf, and pdf and a few other minor formats. This makes your life easier not only for potential users of your. This recipe will show you how to use cmake to build your doxygen documentation. Lastly there will be a larger example showing all of commands together. The documentation is written within code, and is thus relatively easy to keep up to date. Html isnt the only format that doxygen can generate. For example \brief a brief description in one short sentence. The doc subdirectory also contains three directories. It is highly recommended that you document your code.
Here is a list of all documented files with brief descriptions. Aug 31, 2015 in order to ensure that your source code has adequate documentation, we will be requiring that your code be fully documented using doxygen, a documentation system for c similar to javadoc. Doxygen is a tool that can generate project documentation in html, pdf or latex from code comments formatted with doxygen markup syntax. Here is an example file which from im trying to generate the documentation. Using doxygen to generate documentation for your code uc. Select doxyblocksextract documentation to generate and view the documentation. Running doxygen will extract these comments and create the documentation in a format defined in the doxyfile configuration file. Section special commands shows an overview of the special commands that can be used within the documentation. It can output, among other options, pdf, rtf, xml, compiled html, unix man pages. The generic syntax of documentation comments is to start a comment with an extra asterisk after the. Because of that, make yours accountable and actionable. However, you can make this even more useful by embedding documentation on how to use your classes right in the code itself. Here are some tips for writing compelling documentation.
Doxygen allows you to put your documentation blocks practically anywhere the exception is inside the body of a function or inside a normal c style comment block. Learning doxygen for source code documentation ibm developer. For each code item there are two types of descriptions, which together form the documentation. I doubt that the tool youre describing exists, since thats not doxygens purpose. 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. The inputs to doxygen are things like code and xml comments. 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 rest of this document talks about the doxygen commands that you need for each of the two kinds. Using doxygen to document computing projects youtube. 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. It can generate an online documentation browser in html andor an offline reference manual in from a set of documented source files.
Im trying to generate pdf from source files using doxygen and miktex also tex live tested but with no success. To structure and fomat the generated documentation, doxygen provides a large number 170 of special commands. Sometimes doxygen just stops generating documentation at some point. Doxygen is a popular tool to document your code, i. We at jedi use doxygen for generating man pages, inheritance diagrams, call trees and other types of html documentation that is linked to specific blocks of source code such as classes, functions, and subroutines.
Doxygen usage example for c i have been using doxygen for a while now, but i keep forgetting bit and pieces of it. How to use doxygen to generate documentation code yarns. For line comment just insert a triple forward slash. This makes sense, because that is actually the formal name of the argument, so that is the one to document. So i started to look at doxygen but was quickly put off by two major flaws. They can serve as tutorials for understanding how to use graphviz, but the most uptodate documentation is provided in the online pages listed above. All these steps will be explained in the following. Doxygen is developed under mac os x and linux, but is setup to be highly portable. This line will be included in the doxygen comments for this functionclassfile.
Doxygen creates a makefile, too, so if youve got make i dont on my win7 box, you can just type make in the latex directory. Doxygen supports several styles of comment blocks, but only the tripleslash style should be used in the owlnext source code. The rest of the documentation is generated based on doxygenstyle code comments in the source and header files. In order to ensure that your source code has adequate documentation, we will be requiring that your code be fully documented using doxygen, a documentation system for c similar to javadoc. Doxygen can output html, xml, and even latex or pdf. Generate a pdf version of the manual you will need pdflatex, makeindex, and egrep for this. The idea is to accumulate examples in there and use it as a quick reference. A breath of fresh air for documentation techrepublic. Is it possible to obtain a single pdf document, organized as a book, roughly as the html version. You can also use doxygen for creating normal documentation. 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.
Every file must have a file header documentation section as described in the coding standard document, the file headers. The following sections provide guidelines for openocd developers who wish to write doxygen comments in the code or this manual. Doxygen is a useful tool to automatically generate documentation for code. Top documentation tips doxygen is a powerful api documentation generator, but even the best tool wont help if you dont know how, and what, to document. Section configuration shows how to finetune doxygen, so it generates the documentation you want. To simplify the creation of a configuration file, doxygen can create a template. A brief run through of using doxygen documentation tool to produce the technical documentation for your computing f454 and it unit 17 projects. Jun 12, 2016 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 not if they take a good deep breath of doxygen. This tag can be used to specify a number of aliases that acts as commands in the documentation. Doing nothing, doxygen will produce a nice cross referenced htmlized version of the code. The subdirectory doc within the main source directory contains makefile. For a comprehensive list, see commenting the code in the doxygen documentation. Well also integrate this process into a cmake build system so that we have a unified workflow. For generating webbased manuals, guides, and tutorials we use sphinx doxygen is opensource software that was developed by dimitri van heesch and is distributed under. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual doxygendoxygen. If you have a project that shows an aspect of doxygen not covered by these and example or if you find a broken link then please let me know. Doxygen can cross reference documentation and code, so that the reader of a document can easily refer to the actual code. Building documentation using doxygen cmake cookbook. These next few lines will form a comment block to start a new paragraph add an empty line to end the comment block. The module diagram documentation is dependent on the. The order of the extra style sheet files is of importance e.
Patel is right you need to run doxygen, then latex of some sort to create the single doc. Doxygen is not very user friendly when it comes to input errors. Doxygen is a powerful application that can generate documentation automatically from comments in your source code. Tools cant solve this problem in themselves, but they can ease the pain. Section doxywizard usage shows how to use the doxywizard program. Example code is available in our open source github. Recommended documentation tool for sas code sas support. The documentation is contained in special comment blocks. Section doxygen usage shows how to use the doxygen program. There is also support for generating output in rtf msword, postscript, hyperlinked pdf, compressed html, and unix man pages. The next section presents the various styles supported by doxygen.