For example, a muscle is a pathactuator and inherits all the functionality of a pathactuator while the. Guide to using doxygen opensim documentation global site. How to install and use doxygen doxygen easy tutorial. Im trying to document a c api which is all contained in a single c header file. For line comment just insert a triple forward slash. How to add an external resource pdf file in my doxygen. 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. This line will be included in the doxygen comments for this functionclassfile. Source code packages for the latest stable and development versions of graphviz are available, along with instructions for.
Doxygen usage example for c matteo franchins corner. Doxygen download apk, deb, eopkg, rpm, tgz, txz, xz, zst. Generate a pdf version of the manual you will need pdflatex, makeindex. See section doxygen usage for more detailed usage information optionally. Doxygen is a useful tool to automatically generate documentation for code. Download the binary distribution for doxygen for the operating system you are using. This post is dedicated to developers because after reading this post developers life will easy to create the document directly from the code. Download doxygens source tarball and put it somewhere e. The doxygen, which documents the opensim api, can be built locally using the doxygen installation.
Commenting your code there are several ways to mark a comment block as a. Software documentation with doxygen this is a good practice to always have uptodate software documentation. It can generate an online documentation browser in html andor an offline reference manual in from a set of documented source files. I downloaded the binary distribution for mac os x called. The examples together show many of the features of doxygen. Doxygen is a freeware project that aims to outfit several programming languages with a powerful documentation tool. Pretty equations and some image rendering require latex, dvips and ghostscript. There are three ways you can use that file to get a book out of doxygen. Here are the classes, structs, unions and interfaces with brief descriptions. If you are allergic to installers and guis, havent sufficient bandwidth, or dont have administrator priviledges you can also download the 32bit doxygen binary in a zip 18. Doxygen runs in the command line, and is available for mac, win and linux. Tips for writing doxygen documentation rosettacommons. File containing example of doxygen usage for quick reference. When i run doxygen, on the file, its giving me errors for currently undocumented c macros, but when i add the.
Since the documentation for doxygen is new, you may need to create initial versions of those related topics. Guide to building doxygen opensim documentation global. When doxygen is finished processing, in the latex directory theres a file called refman. Download and install the version thats right for your operating system.
Automatic project documentation you were previously added to the hyperv administrators security group, but the permissions have. Doxygen the wellautomated arduino library adafruit. However, there can be discrepancy between the source code. Add the examples a shown in the html chm documentation also to the latex pdf documentation. Here is a list of all documented files with brief descriptions.
The executable doxygen is the main program that parses the sources and generates the documentation. For this reason, i put together one single c header file which contains some. It can produce beautiful documentation if the code comments are written in its custom format. You should be able to specify the following to copy the. Generate a pdf version of the manual you will need pdflatex, makeindex, and egrep for this. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual by albert. On maclinux we suggest using brew or aptget or whatever package manager you have. How to use doxygen to generate documentation code yarns. Commenting your code there are several ways to mark a comment block as a detailed description, so that this comment block is parsed by doxygen and added as a description of the following code item to the documentation.
When doxygen is finished processing, in the latex directory theres a file called. They can serve as tutorials for understanding how to use graphviz, but the most uptodate documentation is provided in the online pages listed above. The subdirectory doc within the main source directory contains. Use brief, otherwise the index wont have a brief explanation. To simplify the creation of a configuration file, doxygen can create a template. Getting started with doxygen remarks this section provides an overview of what doxygen is, and why a developer might want to use it. Section installation discusses how to download, compile and install doxygen for your platform section getting started tells you how to generate your first. Learning doxygen for source code documentation ibm developer. There is also support for generating output in rtf msword, postscript, hyperlinked pdf, compressed html, and unix man pages.
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