Push the current version of your project(containing the addiotional Doxyfile and docs folder) to github.Next document your c++ files by add appropriate comments as mentioned here.Feel free to make appropriate changes like PROJECT_NAME, PROJECT_BRIEF etc. In the Doxyfile set the value of OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = docs.The Doxyfile is your doxygen config file for the project. Change directory into your c++ project folder (hopefully you have already created a github repo for this project).
#Doxygen github install#
#Doxygen github manual#
You can take a quick look at the Doxygen manual here.
#Doxygen github pdf#
Doxygen offers a simple way of generating html, latex and PDF documentations for c++ projects just by putting comments in a project. Comments in code or generating a PDF or generating a web doc are common ways of sharing docs and this exactly where Doxygen comes into the picture. I'd also suggest you look at my add-in, Atomineer Pro Documentation, which makes the generation and updating of DocXml, Doxygen, Qt or JavaDoc format comments much faster and easier within VS - an ideal complement to both Doxygen and Sandcastle.Documenting a C++ project is something that always looks tiresome and confusing to some of the new developers. I would recommend starting with DocXml comments and Doxygen to generate the external help, as that's the cheapest and easiest way to get started, and retains all the best features of VIsual Studio (intellisense etc). On the plus side, Doxygen does parse the DocXml format, so you can get the best of both worlds by using the DocXml format with Doxygen to generate the external help.Ĭommercial products like DocumentX, which allow you to edit the documentation in a WYSIWYG window. This is easier to use and more flexible, but not supported by Visual Studio, so you lose the intellisense and syntax colouring advantages. The advantage of this is that Visual Studio recognises the documentation (it syntax-colours the comments) and the documentation is instantly picked up by the Intellisense system (so if you hover your mouse pointer over a method you are calling, the tooltip will display the summary and parameter information that you entered in the Doc Comment) Use DocXml documentation comments, and then Sandcastle or a similar tool to build MSDN-style documentation.
There are several options for documentation: NET developers (with Sandcastle and Sandcastle Help FileBuilder). You can generate documentation in the standard Doxygen layout your organization is familiar with (becauses Doxygen supports XML comments) plus you have the option to generate documentation in a format known to. To sum up: I would recommend to use XML comments over special Doxygen comments for C# code. If you want to use Doxygen, this is no problem as it supports parsing XML comments.
#Doxygen github generator#
You can configure Visual Studio to generate an XML file from all the comments, which would then be fed into a documentation generator like Sandcastle. To document a method, just type three slashes ( ///) in front of the method body, and Visual Studio will insert an empty comment template for you to fill, like so: /// In my opinion this is the best way to go for C# code because support for this is already integrated in Visual Studio (comment tag auto completion, warning about missing or incorrectly spelled parameters. The default way of documenting C# code in Visual Studio is by XML documentation comments.
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