What is doxygen C++?

Doxygen is a tool that can generate project documentation in html, pdf or Latex from code comments formatted with Doxygen markup syntax. 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.

How do I create a doxygen comment?

Once specified, you can generate the comment stub by typing the respective “///” or “/**” above a function, or by using the (Ctrl+/) shortcut. To get started, you can have Visual Studio generate an . editorconfig file for you based on your existing setting for documentation by using the “Generate .

How do I document with doxygen?

In order to generate doxygen based documentation, you need to follow four steps:

  1. have the doxygen executable installed on your computer (this is already done on our DESY machines)
  2. document your code.
  3. create a configuration file.
  4. run doxygen to create the documentation (HTML or LaTeX based).

Why is doxygen used?

Doxygen (/ˈdɒksidʒən/ DOK-see-jən) is a documentation generator and static analysis tool for software source trees. When used as a documentation generator, Doxygen extracts information from specially-formatted comments within the code.

How do you code a document in C++?

  1. Documentation MUST be delimited in Javadoc style.
  2. Multi-line documentation delimiters SHOULD be on their own lines.
  3. Documentation MUST use Javadoc-style tags.
  4. Documentation SHOULD use Markdown for formatting.
  5. Documentation MUST appear where a component is first declared.

When should I take doxygen?

When used as a documentation generator, Doxygen extracts information from specially-formatted comments within the code. When used for analysis, Doxygen uses its parse tree to generate diagrams and charts of the code structure.

How do I create a doxygen PDF?

See Converting a LaTeX document to a PDF document. When Doxygen is finished processing, in the latex directory there’s a file called ‘refman. tex’….The generated file will be refman. pdf unless it’s configured otherwise.

  1. Configure Doxygen for LaTeX output.
  2. Set up all your images for LaTeX output.
  3. Run Doxygen.

What is doxygen style?