DoxyPress

Introduction

DoxyPress is a modern C++ application for generating documentation from annotated sources and API documentation. DoxyPress and DoxyPressApp were initially derived from Doxygen and DoxyWizard.

Major enhancements

Parsing

• User selection for full parsing of C and C++ with clang in lieu of the legacy lex parser
• Clang parser allows complicated modern C++ to be parsed accurately, especially as C++ is updated
• Added a new parser for makefiles
• Documents the following computer languages: C, C++, Objective-C, C#, Fortran, Java, IDL, Python, PHP, and TCL

Classes and Containers

• DoxyPress links with the CopperSpice libraries
• Removed all Qt 2 classes and containers
• Refactored to use value based containers instead of pointer based containers
• For improved memory management variadic templates and shared pointers are used
• Source code reformatted for improved readability
• Modified source code to use modern C++ functionality, features, and syntax

Output

• Project file format enhanced to use a JSON format for improved functionality
• Command line option to convert Doxygen project files to the DoxyPress JSON format
• Enhanced layout file to include new sections
• Major improvements to the html output for correctness

Building

DoxyPress prebuilt binaries are available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

https://download.copperspice.com/doxypress/binary/

To build DoxyPress from source a current copy of the CopperSpice libraries, a C++17 compiler, and a C++17 standard library are required. DoxyPress links with CsCore and CsXml which are part of the CopperSpice libraries.

CMake build files are provided with the DoxyPress source distribution.

Dependencies

• C++17 compiler

• CopperSpice CsCore and CsXml libraries

• C++17 standard library when using clang for parsing

• clang 10 must be compiled with RTTI enabled ( pre-built bianary files are available from our download page )

Documentation

Full documentation for DoxyPress is available on the website or from our download page.

For documentation on how to build the DoxyPress application refer to the following page: www.copperspice.com/docs/doxypress/build-doxypress.html

Presentations

Our YouTube channel videos are about modern C++, build systems, CopperSpice, DoxyPress, and other topics related to our open source work.

https://www.youtube.com/copperspice

Links to technical presentations recorded at CppNow and CppCon:

www.copperspice.com/presentations.html

Authors / Contributors

• Ansel Sermersheim
• Barbara Geller
• Andrew Marlow
• Adam Mensel
• Tim van Deurzen
• Robert Jamnitzky

License

This program is released under the GPL 2 license. For more information refer to the LICENSE file provided with this project.

References

• Website: https://www.copperspice.com
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/copperspice_cpp
• Email: info@copperspice.com

• Github: https://github.com/copperspice

• Forum: https://forum.copperspice.com
• Journal: https://journal.copperspice.com