/****************************************************************************** * * * * Copyright (C) 1997-2008 by Dimitri van Heesch. * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its * documentation under the terms of the GNU General Public License is hereby * granted. No representations are made about the suitability of this software * for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. * See the GNU General Public License for more details. * * Documents produced by Doxygen are derivative works derived from the * input used in their production; they are not affected by this license. * */ /*! \page doxygen_usage Doxygen usage Doxygen is a command line based utility. Calling \c doxygen with the \c --help option at the command line will give you a brief description of the usage of the program. All options consist of a leading character <tt>-</tt>, followed by one character and one or more arguments depending on the option. To generate a manual for your project you typically need to follow these steps: <ol> <li> You document your source code with special documentation blocks (see section \ref specialblock). <li> You generate a configuration file (see section \ref config) by calling doxygen with the \c -g option: \verbatim doxygen -g <config_file> \endverbatim <li> You edit the configuration file so it matches your project. In the configuration file you can specify the input files and a lot of optional information. <li> You let doxygen generate the documentation, based on the settings in the configuration file: \verbatim doxygen <config_file> \endverbatim </ol> If you have a configuration file generated with an older version of doxygen, you can upgrade it to the current version by running doxygen with the -u option. \verbatim doxygen -u <config_file> \endverbatim All configuration settings in the orginal configuration file will be copied to the new configuration file. Any new options will have their default value. Note that comments that you may have added in the original configuration file will be lost. If you want to fine-tune the way the output looks, doxygen allows you generate default style sheet, header, and footer files that you can edit afterwards: <ul> <li>For HTML output, you can generate the default header file (see \ref cfg_html_header "HTML_HEADER"), the default footer (see \ref cfg_html_footer "HTML_FOOTER"), and the default style sheet (see \ref cfg_html_stylesheet "HTML_STYLESHEET"), using the following command: \verbatim doxygen -w html header.html footer.html stylesheet.css \endverbatim <li>For LaTeX output, you can generate the first part of \c refman.tex (see \ref cfg_latex_header "LATEX_HEADER") and the style sheet included by that header (normally <code>doxygen.sty</code>), using: \verbatim doxygen -w latex header.tex doxygen.sty \endverbatim If you need non-default options (for instance to use pdflatex) you need to make a config file with those options set correctly and then specify that config file as the forth argument. <li>For RTF output, you can generate the default style sheet file (see \ref cfg_rtf_stylesheet_file "RTF_STYLESHEET_FILE") using: \verbatim doxygen -w rtf rtfstyle.cfg \endverbatim </ul> <b>Note:</b><br> <ul> <li> If you do not want documentation for each item inside the configuration file then you can use the optional \c -s option. This can use be used in combination with the \c -u option, to add or strip the documentation from an existing configuration file. Please use the \c -s option if you send me a configuration file as part of a bug report! <li> To make doxygen read/write to standard input/output instead of from/to a file, use \c - for the file name. </ul> */