Doxygen

Doxygen ( ) is a documentation generator that works with many programming languages. It extracts information from specially-formatted source code comments and saves the information in one of various supported formats.

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Vinony's link graph records 48 inbound references to Doxygen, and connects out to operating system, HTML and Microsoft Windows.

Vinony files it under Code navigation tools, Cross-platform software and Free computer programming tools.

Vinony links it to 22 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Software.name: Doxygen
Software.logo: doxygen.png
Software.screenshot: Doxygen-1.8.1.png
Software.developer: Dimitri van Heesch
Software.programming language: C++
Software.operating system: Cross-platform
Software.genre: Documentation generator
Software.license: GPLv2

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Source code

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Link to the source-code README · not written by Vinony

Wikidata facts

Instance of: free software
Official website: www.doxygen.org
Image: Doxygen-1.8.1.png

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Commons category: Doxygen
programmed in: C++
copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 2.0
GUI toolkit or framework: Qt
software version identifier: 1.16.1
inception: 1997-10-26
source code repository URL: github.com/doxygen/doxygen
software quality assurance: continuous integration
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/doxygen
operating system: Unix-like operating system
depends on software: Graphviz

Sources (4)

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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections

Contents

History
Development
Design
Example
See also
References
External links

Doxygen supports static analysis of a codebase. It uses the parse tree parsed from the codebase to generate diagrams and charts of the code structure. It provides cross-referencing that a reader can use to refer back to the source code from the generated documentation.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Doxygen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.