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Doxygen

documentation system for various programming languages

Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, IDL (CORBA and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, Python, VHDL and to some extent PHP, C#, and D.

You can use Doxygen in several ways:

1) Generate a template configuration file*:
doxygen [-s] -g [configName]
2) Update an existing configuration file*:
doxygen [-s] -u [configName]
3) Generate documentation using an existing configuration file*:
doxygen [configName]
4) Generate a template file that controls the layout of the generated documentation:
doxygen -l [layoutFileName]

If layoutFileName is omitted, DoxygenLayout.xml will be used as the filename.
If - is used for layoutFileName, Doxygen writes to standard output.
5) Generate a template style sheet file for RTF, HTML or LaTeX:
RTF: doxygen -w rtf styleSheetFile
HTML: doxygen -w html headerFile footerFile styleSheetFile [configFile]
LaTeX: doxygen -w latex headerFile footerFile styleSheetFile [configFile]
6) Generate an RTF extensions file:
RTF: doxygen -e rtf extensionsFile

If - is used for extensionsFile Doxygen will write to standard output.
7) Compare the used configuration file with the template configuration file:
doxygen -x [configFile]

without replacing the environment variables or CMake type replacement variables:
doxygen -x_noenv [configFile]
8) Show a list of built-in emojis.
doxygen -f emoji outputFileName

If - is used for outputFileName Doxygen will write to standard output.

*) If -s is specified, the comments of the configuration items in the config file will be omitted.
If configName is omitted, 'Doxyfile' will be used by default.
If - is used for configFile, Doxygen will write / read the configuration to / from standard output / input.

If -q is used for a Doxygen documentation run, Doxygen will see this as if QUIET=YES has been set.

-v print version string, -V print extended version information

-h,-? prints usage help information

doxygen -d prints additional usage flags for debugging purposes

Doxygen version 1.15.0, Copyright Dimitri van Heesch 1997-2026

doxywizard(1).

Please consider installing the doxygen-doc package as it contains additional documentation on how to use doxygen.