

# The next one is essential! Sphinx uses lowercase reference IDs, # so Doxygen can't use mixed-case IDs: # Program listing vastly increases the size of XML so it's recommended # to turning it OFF: # You may also want to turn the generation of HTML off: # GENERATE_HTML = NO # Next, choose the location of the resulting XML database: Doxyfile for DoxygenĪdjust the following settings in your Doxygen configuration file Doxyfile:
Doxygen layout xml install#
If the Sphinx version from the official repos of your Linux distro is below that, please use pip to install a newer one. Note that Doxyrest requires Sphinx v1.7.0 or above. Refer to the Doxyrest Build Guide for more details.


If you've chosen the latter, it's recommended to build using the auxillary bundle repo doxyrest_b. You can either download precompiled packages from the latest GitHub release or build Doxyrest yourself. Here is a list of steps required to apply Doxyrest to existing Doxygen-based projects: 1. You can replace the XML-generator to support new languages you can change Sphinx themes or CSS styles to tweak the visual appearance (fonts, colors, page layout, etc), and if that doesn't cut it, you can modify the Lua frames for more drastic effects - from tweaking the declaration coding style to changing the whole structure of documentation. To reiterate, the strongest point of the Doxyrest approach is that it's modular and 100% customizable. jnc files by using the official Jancy compiler instead of Doxygen at the first stage of the pipeline.

Doxygen layout xml manuals#
The above manuals were generated from Doxy-comments inside. lua files by using LuaDoxyXML instead of Doxygen at the first stage of the pipeline.
Doxygen layout xml generator#
Replace Doxygen with your own generator of Doxygen-compatible XML database and apply the same pipeline for documenting APIs in other languages: Lua libraries Doxyrest Lua API Or - create a completely custom style by editing frames! SamplesĬheck out the results of Doxyrest' handiwork in application to a few open-source projects: C libraries LibUSBĭoxyrest generates a decent overview even if a project has no Doxygen documentation comments at all: AXL where exactly?! With Doxyrest it's not an issue - both documented and undocumented items get properly highlighted when jumped to! Often times you click a link, and you jump somewhere, but. Alas, Doxygen doesn't provide any support for that at all. Merge them together into a subgroup and let them share the same documentation block!įootnotes are essential for a good documentation system. Often times a bunch of methods relate so closely to one another that they simply do not deserve a dedicated documentation block for each and every one. Multiple sets of language-specific frames: It's also possible to replace Doxygen at the first stage with another compatible XML generator and use the same pipeline for languages other than C/C++. This elaborate pipeline allows building beautiful documentation for C/C++ APIs with little-to-no changes in the existing in-source Doxygen comments. It parses XML databases generated by Doxygen, feeds those to the Lua-based string templating engine and produces reStructuredText suitable for being passed further on to the Python documentation generator Sphinx. Doxyrest is a compiler from Doxygen XML to reStructuredText - hence, the name.
