Doxyfile
. It is parsed by doxygen
. The file may contain tabs and newlines for formatting purposes. The statements in the file are case-sensitive. Comments may be placed anywhere within the file (except within quotes). Comments begin with the # character and end at the end of the line.
The file essentially consists of a list of assignment statements. Each statement consists of a TAG_NAME
written in capitals, followed by the =
character and one or more values. If the same tag is assigned more than once, the last assignment overwrites any earlier assignment. For options that take a list as their argument, the +=
operator can be used instead of =
to append new values to the list. Values are sequences of non-blanks. If the value should contain one or more blanks it must be surrounded by quotes ("..."). Multiple lines can be concatenated by inserting a backslash (\) as the last character of a line. Environment variables can be expanded using the pattern $(ENV_VARIABLE_NAME)
.
You can also include part of a configuration file from another configuration file using a @INCLUDE
tag as follows:
@INCLUDE = config_file_name
@INCLUDE_PATH
tag with these paths before the @INCLUDE
tag, e.g: @INCLUDE_PATH = my_config_dir
The configuration options can be divided into several categories. Below is an alphabetical index of the tags that are recognized followed by the descriptions of the tags grouped by category.
DOXYFILE_ENCODING
PROJECT_NAME
PROJECT_NAME
tag is a single word (or a sequence of words surrounded by double-quotes) that should identify the project for which the documentation is generated. This name is used in the title of most generated pages and in a few other places.PROJECT_NUMBER
PROJECT_NUMBER
tag can be used to enter a project or revision number. This could be handy for archiving the generated documentation or if some version control system is used.OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
tag is used to specify the (relative or absolute) path into which the generated documentation will be written. If a relative path is entered, it will be relative to the location where doxygen was started. If left blank the current directory will be used.CREATE_SUBDIRS
CREATE_SUBDIRS
tag is set to YES
, then doxygen will create 4096 sub-directories (in 2 levels) under the output directory of each output format and will distribute the generated files over these directories. Enabling this option can be useful when feeding doxygen a huge amount of source files, where putting all generated files in the same directory would otherwise causes performance problems for the file system.OUTPUT_LANGUAGE
OUTPUT_LANGUAGE
tag is used to specify the language in which all documentation generated by doxygen is written. Doxygen will use this information to generate all constant output in the proper language. The default language is English, other supported languages are: Afrikaans, Arabic, Brazilian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian.USE_WINDOWS_ENCODING
USE_WINDOWS_ENCODING
tag to YES
forces the Windows encoding, (this is the default for the Windows binary), whereas setting the tag to NO
uses a Unix-style encoding (the default for all platforms other than Windows).BRIEF_MEMBER_DESC
BRIEF_MEMBER_DESC
tag is set to YES
(the default) doxygen will include brief member descriptions after the members that are listed in the file and class documentation (similar to JavaDoc). Set to NO to disable this.REPEAT_BRIEF
REPEAT_BRIEF
tag is set to YES
(the default) doxygen will prepend the brief description of a member or function before the detailed description
HIDE_UNDOC_MEMBERS
and BRIEF_MEMBER_DESC
are set to NO
, the brief descriptions will be completely suppressed.ABBREVIATE_BRIEF
ALWAYS_DETAILED_SEC
ALWAYS_DETAILED_SEC
and REPEAT_BRIEF
tags are both set to YES
then doxygen will generate a detailed section even if there is only a brief description.INLINE_INHERITED_MEMB
INLINE_INHERITED_MEMB
tag is set to YES
, doxygen will show all inherited members of a class in the documentation of that class as if those members were ordinary class members. Constructors, destructors and assignment operators of the base classes will not be shown.FULL_PATH_NAMES
FULL_PATH_NAMES
tag is set to YES
doxygen will prepend the full path before files name in the file list and in the header files. If set to NO the shortest path that makes the file name unique will be usedSTRIP_FROM_PATH
FULL_PATH_NAMES
tag is set to YES
then the STRIP_FROM_PATH
tag can be used to strip a user-defined part of the path. Stripping is only done if one of the specified strings matches the left-hand part of the path. The tag can be used to show relative paths in the file list. If left blank the directory from which doxygen is run is used as the path to strip.STRIP_FROM_INC_PATH
STRIP_FROM_INC_PATH
tag can be used to strip a user-defined part of the path mentioned in the documentation of a class, which tells the reader which header file to include in order to use a class. If left blank only the name of the header file containing the class definition is used. Otherwise one should specify the include paths that are normally passed to the compiler using the -I flag.CASE_SENSE_NAMES
CASE_SENSE_NAMES
tag is set to NO
then doxygen will only generate file names in lower-case letters. If set to YES
upper-case letters are also allowed. This is useful if you have classes or files whose names only differ in case and if your file system supports case sensitive file names. Windows users are advised to set this option to NO.SHORT_NAMES
SHORT_NAMES
tag is set to YES
, doxygen will generate much shorter (but less readable) file names. This can be useful is your file systems doesn't support long names like on DOS, Mac, or CD-ROM.JAVADOC_AUTOBRIEF
JAVADOC_AUTOBRIEF
is set to YES
then doxygen will interpret the first line (until the first dot) of a JavaDoc-style comment as the brief description. If set to NO (the default), the Javadoc-style will behave just like regular Qt-style comments (thus requiring an explicit @brief command for a brief description.)QT_AUTOBRIEF
QT_AUTOBRIEF
is set to YES
then doxygen will interpret the first line (until the first dot) of a Qt-style comment as the brief description. If set to NO (the default), the Qt-style will behave just like regular Qt-style comments (thus requiring an explicit \brief command for a brief description.)BUILTIN_STL_SUPPORT
YES
in order to let doxygen match functions declarations and definitions whose arguments contain STL classes (e.g. func(std::string); v.s. func(std::string) {}). This also make the inheritance and collaboration diagrams that involve STL classes more complete and accurate.CPP_CLI_SUPPORT
SIP_SUPPORT
IDL_PROPERTY_SUPPORT
YES
(the default) will make doxygen to replace the get and set methods by a property in the documentation. This will only work if the methods are indeed getting or setting a simple type. If this is not the case, or you want to show the methods anyway, you should set this option to NO
.DISTRIBUTE_GROUP_DOC
MULTILINE_CPP_IS_BRIEF
INHERIT_DOCS
INHERIT_DOCS
tag is set to YES
(the default) then an undocumented member inherits the documentation from any documented member that it re-implements.SEPARATE_MEMBER_PAGES
SEPARATE_MEMBER_PAGES
tag is set to YES
, then doxygen will produce a new page for each member. If set to NO
, the documentation of a member will be part of the file/class/namespace that contains it.TAB_SIZE
TAB_SIZE
tag can be used to set the number of spaces in a tab. Doxygen uses this value to replace tabs by spaces in code fragments.ALIASES
name=value
"sideeffect=\par Side Effects:\n"
OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_FOR_C
OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_FOR_C
tag to YES
if your project consists of C sources only. Doxygen will then generate output that is more tailored for C. For instance, some of the names that are used will be different. The list of all members will be omitted, etc.OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_JAVA
OPTIMIZE_FOR_FORTRAN
OPTIMIZE_FOR_FORTRAN
tag to YES
if your project consists of Fortran sources. Doxygen will then generate output that is tailored for Fortran.OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_VHDL
OPTIMIZE_OUTPUT_VHDL
tag to YES
if your project consists of VHDL sources. Doxygen will then generate output that is tailored for VHDL.SUBGROUPING
SUBGROUPING
tag to YES
(the default) to allow class member groups of the same type (for instance a group of public functions) to be put as a subgroup of that type (e.g. under the Public Functions section). Set it to NO
to prevent subgrouping. Alternatively, this can be done per class using the \nosubgrouping command.TYPEDEF_HIDES_STRUCT
TYPEDEF_HIDES_STRUCT
is enabled, a typedef of a struct, union, or enum is documented as struct, union, or enum with the name of the typedef. So typedef struct TypeS {} TypeT
, will appear in the documentation as a struct with name TypeT
. When disabled the typedef will appear as a member of a file, namespace, or class. And the struct will be named TypeS
. This can typically be useful for C code in case the coding convention dictates that all compound types are typedef'ed and only the typedef is referenced, never the tag name.SYMBOL_CACHE_SIZE
SYMBOL_CACHE_SIZE
determines the size of the internal cache use to determine which symbols to keep in memory and which to flush to disk. When the cache is full, less often used symbols will be written to disk. For small to medium size projects (<1000 input files) the default value is probably good enough. For larger projects a too small cache size can cause doxygen to be busy swapping symbols to and from disk most of the time causing a significant performance penality. If the system has enough physical memory increasing the cache will improve the performance by keeping more symbols in memory. Note that the value works on a logarithmic scale so increasing the size by one will rougly double the memory usage. The cache size is given by this formula: . The valid range is 0..9, the default is 0, corresponding to a cache size of symbols.
EXTRACT_ALL
EXTRACT_ALL
tag is set to YES
doxygen will assume all entities in documentation are documented, even if no documentation was available. Private class members and static file members will be hidden unless the EXTRACT_PRIVATE
and EXTRACT_STATIC
tags are set to YES
WARNINGS
is set to YES
EXTRACT_PRIVATE
EXTRACT_PRIVATE
tag is set to YES
all private members of a class will be included in the documentation.EXTRACT_STATIC
EXTRACT_STATIC
tag is set to YES
all static members of a file will be included in the documentation.EXTRACT_LOCAL_CLASSES
EXTRACT_LOCAL_CLASSES
tag is set to YES
classes (and structs) defined locally in source files will be included in the documentation. If set to NO only classes defined in header files are included. Does not have any effect for Java sources.EXTRACT_ANON_NSPACES
EXTRACT_LOCAL_METHODS
YES
local methods, which are defined in the implementation section but not in the interface are included in the documentation. If set to NO
(the default) only methods in the interface are included.HIDE_UNDOC_MEMBERS
HIDE_UNDOC_MEMBERS
tag is set to YES
, doxygen will hide all undocumented members inside documented classes or files. If set to NO
(the default) these members will be included in the various overviews, but no documentation section is generated. This option has no effect if EXTRACT_ALL
is enabled.HIDE_UNDOC_CLASSES
HIDE_UNDOC_CLASSESS
tag is set to YES
, doxygen will hide all undocumented classes. If set to NO
(the default) these classes will be included in the various overviews. This option has no effect if EXTRACT_ALL
is enabled.HIDE_FRIEND_COMPOUNDS
HIDE_FRIEND_COMPOUNDS
tag is set to YES
, Doxygen will hide all friend (class|struct|union) declarations. If set to NO
(the default) these declarations will be included in the documentation.HIDE_IN_BODY_DOCS
HIDE_IN_BODY_DOCS
tag is set to YES
, Doxygen will hide any documentation blocks found inside the body of a function. If set to NO
(the default) these blocks will be appended to the function's detailed documentation block.INTERNAL_DOCS
INTERNAL_DOCS
tag determines if documentation that is typed after a \internal command is included. If the tag is set to NO
(the default) then the documentation will be excluded. Set it to YES
to include the internal documentation.HIDE_SCOPE_NAMES
HIDE_SCOPE_NAMES
tag is set to NO
(the default) then doxygen will show members with their full class and namespace scopes in the documentation. If set to YES
the scope will be hidden.SHOW_INCLUDE_FILES
INLINE_INFO
INLINE_INFO
tag is set to YES
(the default) then a tag [inline] is inserted in the documentation for inline members.SORT_MEMBER_DOCS
SORT_MEMBER_DOCS
tag is set to YES
(the default) then doxygen will sort the (detailed) documentation of file and class members alphabetically by member name. If set to NO
the members will appear in declaration order.SORT_BRIEF_DOCS
SORT_BRIEF_DOCS
tag is set to YES
then doxygen will sort the brief descriptions of file, namespace and class members alphabetically by member name. If set to NO
(the default) the members will appear in declaration order.SORT_GROUP_NAMES
SORT_GROUP_NAMES
tag is set to YES
then doxygen will sort the hierarchy of group names into alphabetical order. If set to NO
(the default) the group names will appear in their defined order.SORT_BY_SCOPE_NAME
SORT_BY_SCOPE_NAME
tag is set to YES
, the class list will be sorted by fully-qualified names, including namespaces. If set to NO (the default), the class list will be sorted only by class name, not including the namespace part. HIDE_SCOPE_NAMES
is set to YES
. This option applies only to the class list, not to the alphabetical list.
GENERATE_DEPRECATEDLIST
GENERATE_TODOLIST
GENERATE_TESTLIST
GENERATE_BUGLIST
ENABLED_SECTIONS
ENABLED_SECTIONS
tag can be used to enable conditional documentation sections, marked by \if <section-label> ... \endif and \cond <section-label> ... \endcond blocks.MAX_INITIALIZER_LINES
MAX_INITIALIZER_LINES
tag determines the maximum number of lines that the initial value of a variable or define can be. If the initializer consists of more lines than specified here it will be hidden. Use a value of 0 to hide initializers completely. The appearance of the value of individual variables and defines can be controlled using \showinitializer or \hideinitializer command in the documentation.SHOW_USED_FILES
SHOW_USED_FILES
tag to NO
to disable the list of files generated at the bottom of the documentation of classes and structs. If set to YES
the list will mention the files that were used to generate the documentation.SHOW_DIRECTORIES
SHOW_FILES
SHOW_FILES
tag to NO
to disable the generation of the Files page. This will remove the Files entry from the Quick Index and from the Folder Tree View (if specified). The default is YES
.SHOW_NAMESPACES
SHOW_NAMESPACES
tag to NO
to disable the generation of the Namespaces page. This will remove the Namespaces entry from the Quick Index and from the Folder Tree View (if specified). The default is YES
.
QUIET
QUIET
tag can be used to turn on/off the messages that are generated to standard output by doxygen. Possible values are YES
and NO
, where YES
implies that the messages are off. If left blank NO
is used.WARNINGS
WARNINGS
tag can be used to turn on/off the warning messages that are generated to standard error by doxygen. Possible values are YES
and NO
, where YES
implies that the warnings are on. If left blank NO
is used.Tip: Turn warnings on while writing the documentation.
WARN_IF_UNDOCUMENTED
WARN_IF_UNDOCUMENTED
is set to YES
, then doxygen will generate warnings for undocumented members. If EXTRACT_ALL
is set to YES
then this flag will automatically be disabled.WARN_IF_DOC_ERROR
WARN_IF_DOC_ERROR
is set to YES
, doxygen will generate warnings for potential errors in the documentation, such as not documenting some parameters in a documented function, or documenting parameters that don't exist or using markup commands wrongly.WARN_NO_PARAMDOC
WARN_NO_PARAMDOC
option can be abled to get warnings for functions that are documented, but have no documentation for their parameters or return value. If set to NO
(the default) doxygen will only warn about wrong or incomplete parameter documentation, but not about the absence of documentation.WARN_FORMAT
WARN_FORMAT
tag determines the format of the warning messages that doxygen can produce. The string should contain the $file
, $line
, and $text
tags, which will be replaced by the file and line number from which the warning originated and the warning text.WARN_LOGFILE
WARN_LOGFILE
tag can be used to specify a file to which warning and error messages should be written. If left blank the output is written to stderr.
INPUT
INPUT
tag is used to specify the files and/or directories that contain documented source files. You may enter file names like myfile.cpp
or directories like /usr/src/myproject
. Separate the files or directories with spaces.Note: If this tag is empty the current directory is searched.
INPUT_ENCODING
FILE_PATTERNS
INPUT
tag contains directories, you can use the FILE_PATTERNS
tag to specify one or more wildcard patterns (like *
.cpp and *
.h ) to filter out the source-files in the directories. If left blank the following patterns are tested: .c *.cc *.cxx *.cpp *.c++ *.java *.ii *.ixx *.ipp *.i++ *.inl *.h *.hh *.hxx *.hpp .h++ *.idl *.odl *.cs *.php *.php3 *.inc *.m *.mm
FILE_VERSION_FILTER
FILE_VERSION_FILTER
tag can be used to specify a program or script that doxygen should invoke to get the current version for each file (typically from the version control system). Doxygen will invoke the program by executing (via popen()) the command command input-file
, where command
is the value of the FILE_VERSION_FILTER
tag, and input-file
is the name of an input file provided by doxygen. Whatever the program writes to standard output is used as the file version.Example of using a shell script as a filter for Unix:
FILE_VERSION_FILTER = "/bin/sh versionfilter.sh"
Example shell script for CVS:
#!/bin/sh cvs status $1 | sed -n 's/^[ \]*Working revision:[ \t]*\([0-9][0-9\.]*\).*/\1/p'
Example shell script for Subversion:
#!/bin/sh svn stat -v $1 | sed -n 's/^[ A-Z?\*|!]\{1,15\}/r/;s/ \{1,15\}/\/r/;s/ .*//p'
Example filter for ClearCase:
FILE_VERSION_INFO = "cleartool desc -fmt \%Vn"
LAYOUT_FILE
LAYOUT_FILE
tag can be used to specify a layout file which will be parsed by doxygen. The layout file controls the global structure of the generated output files in an output format independent way. The create the layout file that represents doxygen's defaults, run doxygen with the -l option. You can optionally specify a file name after the option, if omitted DoxygenLayout.xml will be used as the name of the layout file. Note that if you run doxygen from a directory containing a file called DoxygenLayout.xml, doxygen will parse it automatically even if the LAYOUT_FILE
tag is left empty.RECURSIVE
RECURSIVE
tag can be used to specify whether or not subdirectories should be searched for input files as well. Possible values are YES
and NO
. If left blank NO
is used.EXCLUDE
EXCLUDE
tag can be used to specify files and/or directories that should excluded from the INPUT
source files. This way you can easily exclude a subdirectory from a directory tree whose root is specified with the INPUT
tag.EXCLUDE_SYMLINKS
EXCLUDE_SYMLINKS
tag can be used select whether or not files or directories that are symbolic links (a Unix filesystem feature) are excluded from the input.EXCLUDE_PATTERNS
INPUT
tag contains directories, you can use the EXCLUDE_PATTERNS
tag to specify one or more wildcard patterns to exclude certain files from those directories.
Note that the wildcards are matched against the file with absolute path, so to exclude all test directories use the pattern *
/test/
*
EXAMPLE_PATH
EXAMPLE_PATH
tag can be used to specify one or more files or directories that contain example code fragments that are included (see the \include command in section \include).EXAMPLE_RECURSIVE
EXAMPLE_RECURSIVE
tag is set to YES
then subdirectories will be searched for input files to be used with the \include or \dontinclude commands irrespective of the value of the RECURSIVE
tag. Possible values are YES
and NO
. If left blank NO
is used.EXAMPLE_PATTERNS
EXAMPLE_PATH
tag contains directories, you can use the EXAMPLE_PATTERNS
tag to specify one or more wildcard pattern (like *.cpp and *.h) to filter out the source-files in the directories. If left blank all files are included.IMAGE_PATH
IMAGE_PATH
tag can be used to specify one or more files or directories that contain images that are to be included in the documentation (see the \image command).INPUT_FILTER
INPUT_FILTER
tag can be used to specify a program that doxygen should invoke to filter for each input file. Doxygen will invoke the filter program by executing (via popen()) the command: <filter> <input-file>
where <filter> is the value of the INPUT_FILTER
tag, and <input-file> is the name of an input file. Doxygen will then use the output that the filter program writes to standard output.
FILTER_PATTERNS
FILTER_PATTERNS
tag can be used to specify filters on a per file pattern basis. Doxygen will compare the file name with each pattern and apply the filter if there is a match. The filters are a list of the form: pattern=filter (like *.cpp=my_cpp_filter
). See INPUT_FILTER
for further info on how filters are used. If FILTER_PATTERNS
is empty, INPUT_FILTER
is applied to all files.FILTER_SOURCE_FILES
FILTER_SOURCE_FILES
tag is set to YES
, the input filter (if set using INPUT_FILTER ) will also be used to filter the input files that are used for producing the source files to browse (i.e. when SOURCE_BROWSER is set to YES).
SOURCE_BROWSER
SOURCE_BROWSER
tag is set to YES
then a list of source files will VERBATIM_HEADERS
is set to NO. INLINE_SOURCES
INLINE_SOURCES
tag to YES
will include the body of functions, classes and enums directly into the documentation.STRIP_CODE_COMMENTS
STRIP_CODE_COMMENTS
tag to YES
(the default) will instruct doxygen to hide any special comment blocks from generated source code fragments. Normal C and C++ comments will always remain visible.REFERENCED_BY_RELATION
REFERENCED_BY_RELATION
tag is set to YES
then for each documented function all documented functions referencing it will be listed.REFERENCES_RELATION
REFERENCES_RELATION
tag is set to YES
then for each documented function all documented entities called/used by that function will be listed.REFERENCES_LINK_SOURCE
REFERENCES_LINK_SOURCE
tag is set to YES
(the default) and SOURCE_BROWSER tag is set to YES
, then the hyperlinks from functions in REFERENCES_RELATION and REFERENCED_BY_RELATION lists will link to the source code. Otherwise they will link to the documentstion.VERBATIM_HEADERS
VERBATIM_HEADERS
tag is set the YES
(the default) then doxygen will generate a verbatim copy of the header file for each class for which an include is specified. Set to NO to disable this. USE_HTAGS
USE_HTAGS
tag is set to YES
then the references to source code will point to the HTML generated by the htags(1) tool instead of doxygen built-in source browser. The htags tool is part of GNU's global source tagging system (see http://www.gnu.org/software/global/global.html). The use it do the following:
Doxygen will invoke htags (and that will in turn invoke gtags), so these tools must be available from the command line (i.e. in the search path).
The result: instead of the source browser generated by doxygen, the links to source code will now point to the output of htags.
ALPHABETICAL_INDEX
ALPHABETICAL_INDEX
tag is set to YES
, an alphabetical index of all compounds will be generated. Enable this if the project contains a lot of classes, structs, unions or interfaces.
COLS_IN_ALPHA_INDEX
ALPHABETICAL_INDEX
) then the COLS_IN_ALPHA_INDEX
tag can be used to specify the number of columns in which this list will be split (can be a number in the range [1..20])IGNORE_PREFIX
IGNORE_PREFIX
tag can be used to specify a prefix (or a list of prefixes) that should be ignored while generating the index headers.
GENERATE_HTML
GENERATE_HTML
tag is set to YES
(the default) doxygen will generate HTML outputHTML_OUTPUT
HTML_OUTPUT
tag is used to specify where the HTML docs will be put. If a relative path is entered the value of OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
will be put in front of it. If left blank `html' will be used as the default path.HTML_FILE_EXTENSION
HTML_FILE_EXTENSION
tag can be used to specify the file extension for each generated HTML page (for example: .htm, .php, .asp). If it is left blank doxygen will generate files with .html extension.HTML_HEADER
HTML_HEADER
tag can be used to specify a user-defined HTML header file for each generated HTML page. To get valid HTML the header file should contain at least a <HTML>
and a <BODY>
tag, but it is good idea to include the style sheet that is generated by doxygen as well. Minimal example: <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>My title</TITLE> <LINK HREF="doxygen.css" REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
The following commands have a special meaning inside the header: $title
, $datetime
, $date
, $doxygenversion
, $projectname
, and $projectnumber
. Doxygen will replace them by respectively the title of the page, the current date and time, only the current date, the version number of doxygen, the project name (see PROJECT_NAME
), or the project number (see PROJECT_NUMBER
).
If CREATE_SUBDIRS
is enabled, the command $relpath$
can be used to produce a relative path to the root of the HTML output directory, e.g. use $relpath$doxygen.css, to refer to the standard style sheet.
See also section Doxygen usage for information on how to generate the default header that doxygen normally uses.
HTML_FOOTER
HTML_FOOTER
tag can be used to specify a user-defined HTML footer for each generated HTML page. To get valid HTML the footer file should contain at least a </BODY>
and a </HTML>
tag. A minimal example: </BODY> </HTML>
The following commands have a special meaning inside the footer: $title
, $datetime
, $date
, $doxygenversion
, $projectname
, $projectnumber
. Doxygen will replace them by respectively the title of the page, the current date and time, only the current date, the version number of doxygen, the project name (see PROJECT_NAME
), or the project number (see PROJECT_NUMBER
).
See also section Doxygen usage for information on how to generate the default footer that doxygen normally uses.
HTML_STYLESHEET
HTML_STYLESHEET
tag can be used to specify a user-defined cascading style sheet that is used by each HTML page. It can be used to fine-tune the look of the HTML output. If the tag is left blank doxygen will generate a default style sheet.See also section Doxygen usage for information on how to generate the style sheet that doxygen normally uses.
HTML_ALIGN_MEMBERS
HTML_ALIGN_MEMBERS
tag is set to YES
, the members of classes, files or namespaces will be aligned in HTML using tables. If set to NO
a bullet list will be used.
Note: Setting this tag to NO
will become obsolete in the future, since I only intent to support and test the aligned representation.
HTML_DYNAMIC_SECTIONS
HTML_DYNAMIC_SECTIONS
tag is set to YES
then the generated HTML documentation will contain sections that can be hidden and shown after the page has loaded. For this to work a browser that supports JavaScript and DHTML is required (for instance Mozilla 1.0+, Firefox Netscape 6.0+, Internet explorer 5.0+, Konqueror, or Safari).GENERATE_DOCSET
GENERATE_DOCSET
tag is set to YES
, additional index files will be generated that can be used as input for Apple's Xcode 3 integrated development environment, introduced with OSX 10.5 (Leopard). To create a documentation set, doxygen will generate a Makefile in the HTML output directory. Running make
will produce the docset in that directory and running make install
will install the docset in ~/Library/Developer/Shared/Documentation/DocSets
so that Xcode will find it at startup. See this article for more information.DOCSET_FEEDNAME
GENERATE_DOCSET
tag is set to YES
, this tag determines the name of the feed. A documentation feed provides an umbrella under which multiple documentation sets from a single provider (such as a company or product suite) can be grouped.DOCSET_BUNDLE_ID
GENERATE_DOCSET
tag is set to YES
, this tag specifies a string that should uniquely identify the documentation set bundle. This should be a reverse domain-name style string, e.g. com.mycompany.MyDocSet
. Doxygen will append .docset
to the name.GENERATE_HTMLHELP
GENERATE_HTMLHELP
tag is set to YES
then doxygen generates three additional HTML index files: index.hhp
, index.hhc
, and index.hhk
. The index.hhp
is a project file that can be read by Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop on Windows.The HTML Help Workshop contains a compiler that can convert all HTML output generated by doxygen into a single compiled HTML file (.chm). Compiled HTML files are now used as the Windows 98 help format, and will replace the old Windows help format (.hlp) on all Windows platforms in the future. Compressed HTML files also contain an index, a table of contents, and you can search for words in the documentation. The HTML workshop also contains a viewer for compressed HTML files.
CHM_FILE
GENERATE_HTMLHELP
tag is set to YES
, the CHM_FILE
tag can be used to specify the file name of the resulting .chm file. You can add a path in front of the file if the result should not be written to the html output directory.HHC_LOCATION
GENERATE_HTMLHELP
tag is set to YES
, the HHC_LOCATION
tag can be used to specify the location (absolute path including file name) of the HTML help compiler (hhc.exe). If non-empty doxygen will try to run the HTML help compiler on the generated index.hhp.GENERATE_CHI
GENERATE_HTMLHELP
tag is set to YES
, the GENERATE_CHI
flag controls if a separate .chi index file is generated (YES
) or that it should be included in the master .chm file (NO
).BINARY_TOC
GENERATE_HTMLHELP
tag is set to YES
, the BINARY_TOC
flag controls whether a binary table of contents is generated (YES
) or a normal table of contents (NO
) in the .chm file.TOC_EXPAND
TOC_EXPAND
flag can be set to YES to add extra items for group members to the table of contents of the HTML help documentation and to the tree view.GENERATE_QHP
QHP_NAMESPACE
QHP_VIRTUAL_FOLDER
QHG_LOCATION
DISABLE_INDEX
DISABLE_INDEX
tag can be used to turn on/off the condensed index at top of each page. A value of NO (the default) enables the index and the value YES disables it.ENUM_VALUES_PER_LINE
GENERATE_TREEVIEW
HIERARCHIES
, which will generate the Groups, Directories, and Class Hierarchy pages using a tree view instead of an ordered list; ALL, which combines the behavior of FRAME
and HIERARCHIES
, and NONE
, which disables this behavior completely. For backwards compatibility with previous releases of Doxygen, the values YES and NO are equivalent to FRAME and NONE respectively.Via custom stylesheets (see HTML_STYLESHEET) one can further fine tune the look of the index. As an example, the default style sheet generated by doxygen has an example that shows how to put an image at the root of the tree instead of the project name.
TREEVIEW_WIDTH
GENERATE_TREEVIEW
) then this tag can be used to set the initial width (in pixels) of the frame in which the tree is shown.FORMULA_FONTSIZE
form_*.png
images from the HTML output directory to force them to be regenerated.
GENERATE_LATEX
GENERATE_LATEX
tag is set to YES
(the default) doxygen will generate output.LATEX_OUTPUT
LATEX_OUTPUT
tag is used to specify where the docs will be put. If a relative path is entered the value of OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
will be put in front of it. If left blank `latex' will be used as the default path.LATEX_CMD_NAME
LATEX_CMD_NAME
tag can be used to specify the LaTeX command name to be invoked. If left blank `latex' will be used as the default command name.MAKEINDEX_CMD_NAME
COMPACT_LATEX
COMPACT_LATEX
tag is set to YES
doxygen generates more compact documents. This may be useful for small projects and may help to save some trees in general.PAPER_TYPE
PAPER_TYPE
tag can be used to set the paper type that is used by the printer. Possible values are: a4
(210 x 297 mm). a4wide
(same as a4, but including the a4wide package). letter
(8.5 x 11 inches). legal
(8.5 x 14 inches). executive
(7.25 x 10.5 inches) EXTRA_PACKAGES
EXTRA_PACKAGES
tag can be used to specify one or more package names that should be included in the output. To get the times font for instance you can specify EXTRA_PACKAGES = times
LATEX_HEADER
LATEX_HEADER
tag can be used to specify a personal header for the generated document. The header should contain everything until the first chapter.If it is left blank doxygen will generate a standard header. See section Doxygen usage for information on how to let doxygen write the default header to a separate file.
$title
, $datetime
, $date
, $doxygenversion
, $projectname
, $projectnumber
. Doxygen will replace them by respectively the title of the page, the current date and time, only the current date, the version number of doxygen, the project name (see PROJECT_NAME
), or the project number (see PROJECT_NUMBER
).PDF_HYPERLINKS
If the PDF_HYPERLINKS
tag is set to YES
, the that is generated is prepared for conversion to PDF (using ps2pdf or pdflatex). The PDF file will contain links (just like the HTML output) instead of page references. This makes the output suitable for online browsing using a PDF viewer.
USE_PDFLATEX
If the LATEX_PDFLATEX
tag is set to YES
, doxygen will use pdflatex to generate the PDF file directly from the files.
LATEX_BATCHMODE
If the LATEX_BATCHMODE
tag is set to YES
, doxygen will add the \batchmode. command to the generated files. This will instruct to keep running if errors occur, instead of asking the user for help. This option is also used when generating formulas in HTML.
LATEX_HIDE_INDICES
If LATEX_HIDE_INDICES
is set to YES
then doxygen will not include the index chapters (such as File Index, Compound Index, etc.) in the output.
GENERATE_RTF
GENERATE_RTF
tag is set to YES
doxygen will generate RTF output. The RTF output is optimized for Word 97 and may not look too pretty with other readers/editors.RTF_OUTPUT
RTF_OUTPUT
tag is used to specify where the RTF docs will be put. If a relative path is entered the value of OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
will be put in front of it. If left blank rtf
will be used as the default path.COMPACT_RTF
COMPACT_RTF
tag is set to YES
doxygen generates more compact RTF documents. This may be useful for small projects and may help to save some trees in general.RTF_HYPERLINKS
RTF_HYPERLINKS
tag is set to YES
, the RTF that is generated will contain hyperlink fields. The RTF file will contain links (just like the HTML output) instead of page references. This makes the output suitable for online browsing using Word or some other Word compatible reader that support those fields.
RTF_STYLESHEET_FILE
See also section Doxygen usage for information on how to generate the default style sheet that doxygen normally uses.
RTF_EXTENSIONS_FILE
doxygen -e rtf extensionFile
.
GENERATE_MAN
GENERATE_MAN
tag is set to YES
(the default) doxygen will generate man pages for classes and files.MAN_OUTPUT
MAN_OUTPUT
tag is used to specify where the man pages will be put. If a relative path is entered the value of OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
will be put in front of it. If left blank `man' will be used as the default path. A directory man3 will be created inside the directory specified by MAN_OUTPUT
.MAN_EXTENSION
MAN_EXTENSION
tag determines the extension that is added to the generated man pages (default is the subroutine's section .3)MAN_LINKS
MAN_LINKS
tag is set to YES
and doxygen generates man output, then it will generate one additional man file for each entity documented in the real man page(s). These additional files only source the real man page, but without them the man command would be unable to find the correct page. The default is NO
.
GENERATE_XML
GENERATE_XML
tag is set to YES
Doxygen will generate an XML file that captures the structure of the code including all documentation.XML_OUTPUT
XML_OUTPUT
tag is used to specify where the XML pages will be put. If a relative path is entered the value of OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
will be put in front of it. If left blank xml
will be used as the default path.XML_SCHEMA
XML_SCHEMA
tag can be used to specify an XML schema, which can be used by a validating XML parser to check the syntax of the XML files.XML_DTD
XML_DTD
tag can be used to specify an XML DTD, which can be used by a validating XML parser to check the syntax of the XML files.XML_PROGRAMLISTING
XML_PROGRAMLISTING
tag is set to YES
Doxygen will dump the program listings (including syntax highlighting and cross-referencing information) to the XML output. Note that enabling this will significantly increase the size of the XML output.
GENERATE_AUTOGEN_DEF
GENERATE_AUTOGEN_DEF
tag is set to YES
Doxygen will generate an AutoGen Definitions (see http://autogen.sf.net) file that captures the structure of the code including all documentation. Note that this feature is still experimental and incomplete at the moment.
GENERATE_PERLMOD
GENERATE_PERLMOD
tag is set to YES
Doxygen will generate a Perl module file that captures the structure of the code including all documentation. Note that this feature is still experimental and incomplete at the moment.PERLMOD_LATEX
PERLMOD_LATEX
tag is set to YES
Doxygen will generate the necessary Makefile rules, Perl scripts and LaTeX code to be able to generate PDF and DVI output from the Perl module output.PERLMOD_PRETTY
PERLMOD_PRETTY
tag is set to YES
the Perl module output will be nicely formatted so it can be parsed by a human reader. This is useful if you want to understand what is going on. On the other hand, if this tag is set to NO
the size of the Perl module output will be much smaller and Perl will parse it just the same.PERLMOD_MAKEVAR_PREFIX
PERLMOD_MAKEVAR_PREFIX
. This is useful so different doxyrules.make files included by the same Makefile don't overwrite each other's variables.
ENABLE_PREPROCESSING
ENABLE_PREPROCESSING
tag is set to YES
(the default) doxygen will evaluate all C-preprocessor directives found in the sources and include files.MACRO_EXPANSION
MACRO_EXPANSION
tag is set to YES
doxygen will expand all macro names in the source code. If set to NO
(the default) only conditional compilation will be performed. Macro expansion can be done in a controlled way by setting EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF
to YES
.EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF
EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF
and MACRO_EXPANSION
tags are both set to YES then the macro expansion is limited to the macros specified with the PREDEFINED
and EXPAND_AS_DEFINED
tags.SEARCH_INCLUDES
SEARCH_INCLUDES
tag is set to YES
(the default) the includes files in the INCLUDE_PATH
(see below) will be searched if a #include is found.INCLUDE_PATH
INCLUDE_PATH
tag can be used to specify one or more directories that contain include files that are not input files but should be processed by the preprocessor.PREDEFINED
PREDEFINED
tag can be used to specify one or more macro names that are defined before the preprocessor is started (similar to the -D option of gcc). The argument of the tag is a list of macros of the form: name
or name=definition
(no spaces). If the definition and the "=" are omitted, "=1" is assumed. To prevent a macro definition from being undefined via #undef or recursively expanded use the := operator instead of the = operator.EXPAND_AS_DEFINED
MACRO_EXPANSION
and EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF
tags are set to YES
then this tag can be used to specify a list of macro names that should be expanded. The macro definition that is found in the sources will be used. Use the PREDEFINED
tag if you want to use a different macro definition.SKIP_FUNCTION_MACROS
SKIP_FUNCTION_MACROS
tag is set to YES
(the default) then doxygen's preprocessor will remove all function-like macros that are alone on a line, have an all uppercase name, and do not end with a semicolon. Such function macros are typically used for boiler-plate code, and will confuse the parser if not removed.
TAGFILES
TAGFILES
tag can be used to specify one or more tagfiles.See section Doxytag usage for more information about the usage of tag files.
Optionally an initial location of the external documentation can be added for each tagfile. The format of a tag file without this location is as follows:
TAGFILES = file1 file2 ...Adding location for the tag files is done as follows:
TAGFILES = file1=loc1 "file2 = loc2" ...where
loc1
and loc2
can be relative or absolute paths or URLs, If a location is present for each tag, the installdox tool (see section Installdox usage for more information) does not have to be run to correct the links.
GENERATE_TAGFILE
GENERATE_TAGFILE
, doxygen will create a tag file that is based on the input files it reads. See section Doxytag usage for more information about the usage of tag files.ALLEXTERNALS
ALLEXTERNALS
tag is set to YES
all external class will be listed in the class index. If set to NO
only the inherited external classes will be listed.EXTERNAL_GROUPS
EXTERNAL_GROUPS
tag is set to YES
all external groups will be listed in the modules index. If set to NO
, only the current project's groups will be listed.PERL_PATH
PERL_PATH
should be the absolute path and name of the perl script interpreter (i.e. the result of `which perl
').
CLASS_DIAGRAMS
CLASS_DIAGRAMS
tag is set to YES
(the default) doxygen will generate a class diagram (in HTML and ) for classes with base or super classes. Setting the tag to NO
turns the diagrams off. Note that this option is superseded by the HAVE_DOT option below. This is only a fallback. It is recommended to install and use dot, since it yields more powerful graphs.MSCGEN_PATH
MSCGEN_PATH
tag allows you to specify the directory where the mscgen tool resides. If left empty the tool is assumed to be found in the default search path.HAVE_DOT
HAVE_DOT
tag to YES
then doxygen will assume the dot tool is available from the path. This tool is part of Graphviz, a graph visualization toolkit from AT&T and Lucent Bell Labs. The other options in this section have no effect if this option is set to NO
(the default)DOT_FONTNAME
FreeSans.ttf
to the output directory and reference it in all dot files that doxygen generates. This font does not include all possible unicode characters however, so when you need these (or just want a differently looking font) you can specify the font name using DOT_FONTNAME
. You need need to make sure dot is able to find the font, which can be done by putting it in a standard location or by setting the DOTFONTPATH
environment variable or by setting DOT_FONTPATH
to the directory containing the font.DOT_FONTSIZE
DOT_FONTSIZE
tag can be used to set the size of the font of dot graphs. The default size is 10pt.DOT_FONTPATH
FreeSans.ttf
font (which doxygen will put there itself). If you specify a different font using DOT_FONTNAME
you can set the path where dot can find it using this tag.
DOT_FONTNAME
DOT_FONTNAME
. You need need to make sure dot is able to find the font, which can be done by putting it in a standard location or by setting the DOTFONTPATH
environment variable or by setting DOT_FONTPATH
to the directory containing the font.
DOT_FONTPATH
DOT_FONTNAME
you can set the path where dot can find it using this tag.CLASS_GRAPH
CLASS_GRAPH
and HAVE_DOT
tags are set to YES
then doxygen will generate a graph for each documented class showing the direct and indirect inheritance relations. Setting this tag to YES
will force the the CLASS_DIAGRAMS
tag to NO.COLLABORATION_GRAPH
COLLABORATION_GRAPH
and HAVE_DOT
tags are set to YES
then doxygen will generate a graph for each documented class showing the direct and indirect implementation dependencies (inheritance, containment, and class references variables) of the class with other documented classes.GROUP_GRAPHS
UML_LOOK
TEMPLATE_RELATIONS
TEMPLATE_RELATIONS
and HAVE_DOT
tags are set to YES
then doxygen will show the relations between templates and their instances.HIDE_UNDOC_RELATIONS
INCLUDE_GRAPH
ENABLE_PREPROCESSING
, SEARCH_INCLUDES
, INCLUDE_GRAPH
, and HAVE_DOT
tags are set to YES
then doxygen will generate a graph for each documented file showing the direct and indirect include dependencies of the file with other documented files.INCLUDED_BY_GRAPH
ENABLE_PREPROCESSING
, SEARCH_INCLUDES
, INCLUDED_BY_GRAPH
, and HAVE_DOT
tags are set to YES
then doxygen will generate a graph for each documented header file showing the documented files that directly or indirectly include this file.CALL_GRAPH
CALL_GRAPH
and HAVE_DOT
tags are set to YES
then doxygen will generate a call dependency graph for every global function or class method. Note that enabling this option will significantly increase the time of a run. So in most cases it will be better to enable call graphs for selected functions only using the \callgraph command.CALLER_GRAPH
CALLER_GRAPH
and HAVE_DOT
tags are set to YES
then doxygen will generate a caller dependency graph for every global function or class method. Note that enabling this option will significantly increase the time of a run. So in most cases it will be better to enable caller graphs for selected functions only using the \callergraph command.GRAPHICAL_HIERARCHY
GRAPHICAL_HIERARCHY
and HAVE_DOT
tags are set to YES
then doxygen will graphical hierarchy of all classes instead of a textual one.DIRECTORY_GRAPH
DIRECTORY_GRAPH
, SHOW_DIRECTORIES
and HAVE_DOT
options are set to YES
then doxygen will show the dependencies a directory has on other directories in a graphical way. The dependency relations are determined by the #include relations between the files in the directories.DOT_GRAPH_MAX_NODES
DOT_GRAPH_MAX_NODES
tag can be used to set the maximum number of nodes that will be shown in the graph. If the number of nodes in a graph becomes larger than this value, doxygen will truncate the graph, which is visualized by representing a node as a red box. Note that doxygen if the number of direct children of the root node in a graph is already larger than DOT_GRAPH_MAX_NODES
then the graph will not be shown at all. Also note that the size of a graph can be further restricted by MAX_DOT_GRAPH_DEPTH
.MAX_DOT_GRAPH_DEPTH
MAX_DOT_GRAPH_DEPTH
tag can be used to set the maximum depth of the graphs generated by dot. A depth value of 3 means that only nodes reachable from the root by following a path via at most 3 edges will be shown. Nodes that lay further from the root node will be omitted. Note that setting this option to 1 or 2 may greatly reduce the computation time needed for large code bases. Also note that the size of a graph can be further restricted by DOT_GRAPH_MAX_NODES
. Using a depth of 0 means no depth restriction (the default).DOT_IMAGE_FORMAT
DOT_IMAGE_FORMAT
tag can be used to set the image format of the images generated by dot. Possible values are gif, jpg, and png. If left blank png will be used.DOT_PATH
DOTFILE_DIRS
DOT_TRANSPARENT
DOT_TRANSPARENT
tag to YES
to generate images with a transparent background. This is disabled by default, because dot on Windows does not seem to support this out of the box. Warning: Depending on the platform used, enabling this option may lead to badly anti-aliased labels on the edges of a graph (i.e. they become hard to read).DOT_MULTI_TARGETS
DOT_MULTI_TARGETS
tag to YES
allow dot to generate multiple output files in one run (i.e. multiple -o and -T options on the command line). This makes dot run faster, but since only newer versions of dot (>1.8.10) support this, this feature is disabled by default.GENERATE_LEGEND
GENERATE_LEGEND
tag is set to YES
(the default) doxygen will generate a legend page explaining the meaning of the various boxes and arrows in the dot generated graphs.DOT_CLEANUP
DOT_CLEANUP
tag is set to YES
(the default) doxygen will remove the intermediate dot files that are used to generate the various graphs.
SEARCHENGINE
SEARCHENGINE
tag specifies whether or not the HTML output should contain a search facility. Possible values are YES
and NO
. If set to YES, doxygen will produce a search index and a PHP script to search through the index. For this to work the documentation should be viewed via a web-server running PHP version 4.1.0 or higher. (See http://www.php.net/manual/en/installation.php for installation instructions).
Suppose you have a simple project consisting of two files: a source file example.cc
and a header file example.h
. Then a minimal configuration file is as simple as:
INPUT = example.cc example.h
Assuming the example makes use of Qt classes and perl is located in /usr/bin
, a more realistic configuration file would be:
PROJECT_NAME = Example INPUT = example.cc example.h WARNINGS = YES TAGFILES = qt.tag PERL_PATH = /usr/bin/perl SEARCHENGINE = NO
To generate the documentation for the QdbtTabular package I have used the following configuration file:
PROJECT_NAME = QdbtTabular OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = html WARNINGS = YES INPUT = examples/examples.doc src FILE_PATTERNS = *.cc *.h INCLUDE_PATH = examples TAGFILES = qt.tag PERL_PATH = /usr/local/bin/perl SEARCHENGINE = YES
To regenerate the Qt-1.44 documentation from the sources, you could use the following config file:
PROJECT_NAME = Qt OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = qt_docs HIDE_UNDOC_MEMBERS = YES HIDE_UNDOC_CLASSES = YES ENABLE_PREPROCESSING = YES MACRO_EXPANSION = YES EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF = YES SEARCH_INCLUDES = YES FULL_PATH_NAMES = YES STRIP_FROM_PATH = $(QTDIR)/ PREDEFINED = USE_TEMPLATECLASS Q_EXPORT= \ QArrayT:=QArray \ QListT:=QList \ QDictT:=QDict \ QQueueT:=QQueue \ QVectorT:=QVector \ QPtrDictT:=QPtrDict \ QIntDictT:=QIntDict \ QStackT:=QStack \ QDictIteratorT:=QDictIterator \ QListIteratorT:=QListIterator \ QCacheT:=QCache \ QCacheIteratorT:=QCacheIterator \ QIntCacheT:=QIntCache \ QIntCacheIteratorT:=QIntCacheIterator \ QIntDictIteratorT:=QIntDictIterator \ QPtrDictIteratorT:=QPtrDictIterator INPUT = $(QTDIR)/doc \ $(QTDIR)/src/widgets \ $(QTDIR)/src/kernel \ $(QTDIR)/src/dialogs \ $(QTDIR)/src/tools FILE_PATTERNS = *.cpp *.h q*.doc INCLUDE_PATH = $(QTDIR)/include RECURSIVE = YES
For the Qt-2.1 sources I recommend to use the following settings:
PROJECT_NAME = Qt PROJECT_NUMBER = 2.1 HIDE_UNDOC_MEMBERS = YES HIDE_UNDOC_CLASSES = YES SOURCE_BROWSER = YES INPUT = $(QTDIR)/src FILE_PATTERNS = *.cpp *.h q*.doc RECURSIVE = YES EXCLUDE_PATTERNS = *codec.cpp moc_* */compat/* */3rdparty/* ALPHABETICAL_INDEX = YES COLS_IN_ALPHA_INDEX = 3 IGNORE_PREFIX = Q ENABLE_PREPROCESSING = YES MACRO_EXPANSION = YES INCLUDE_PATH = $(QTDIR)/include PREDEFINED = Q_PROPERTY(x)= \ Q_OVERRIDE(x)= \ Q_EXPORT= \ Q_ENUMS(x)= \ "QT_STATIC_CONST=static const " \ _WS_X11_ \ INCLUDE_MENUITEM_DEF EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF = YES EXPAND_AS_DEFINED = Q_OBJECT_FAKE Q_OBJECT ACTIVATE_SIGNAL_WITH_PARAM \ Q_VARIANT_AS
Here doxygen's preprocessor is used to substitute some macro names that are normally substituted by the C preprocessor, but without doing full macro expansion.