Doxygen scans your projects filefolder tree and prepares a website like documentation. Example doxygen documentation site using gitlab pages. User contributions older than january 1st 20 git repository hosting. Publish your project documentation with github pages the. If you combine doxygen with a good source control e. You will also need to install git on your computer and setup a github account. Install doxygen preferably from aptget if you use ubuntu. Configuring a publishing source for your github pages site. For a recent project, i wanted to use the github project page of the repository to host the documentation i generated from the source code using doxygen. This explains how to setup for github projects which automatically generates doxygen code documentation and publishes the documentation to the gh pages branch using travis ci. Then, we will dig into how we can use doxygen to generate the documentation. Git comes with builtin gui tools git gui, gitk, but there are several thirdparty tools for users looking for a platformspecific experience. Download doxygen s source tarball and put it somewhere e. Doxygen supports a number of output formats where html is the most popular one.
Gitlab pages is a feature that allows you to publish static websites directly from a repository in gitlab. If nothing happens, download github desktop and try again. The installation of this tool is very simple, you must follow the steps that appear on its page to be able to compile and run it, or you can even perform the installation from precompiled binaries. All but the doxygen generated results above have been generated from our docbookxml source files in docdocbooksrc using a variety of docbook backend tools. If you just want to build the doxygen pages in the doc directory make the following. It can generate an online documentation browser in html andor an offline reference manual in from a set of documented source files. Id like to deploy my generated documentation files primarily html to github pages. Understanding github pages deployment of generated documentation. Autodeploying doxygen documentation to ghpages with. Contribute to doxygendoxygen development by creating an account on github. The output would preferably be the number of times that file as been revised in the repo.
For each included file, an environment variable s generated. The git repository for doxygen is hosted on github. Then select the master branch source and click on the save button. See the gnu general public license for more details. This page always contains a link to the latest version of doxygen.
They will typically contain a longer description of your project. Postscript, hyperlinked pdf, compressed html, docbook and unix man pages. One of these sources is your repositorys docs folder. Im trying to use github pages to host a doxygen site. Tips for writing doxygen documentation rosettacommons. View project on github trilinos home page welcome to the trilinos project home page. The latest binaries and source of doxygen can be downloaded from. You can refer to any source code entity from within the page if required. Note that the default doxygen configuration takes hours to build. Github pages jekyll simple, blogaware, static sites. How to simplify the dreaded task of documentation publishing. Put doxygen documentation on github using ghpages issue. Take advantage of github pages to build almost pointandclick doc. The trilinos project is an effort to develop algorithms and enabling technologies within an objectoriented software framework for the solution of largescale, complex multiphysics engineering and scientific problems.
This way only the source files need to be pushed to github and the gh pages branch is automatically updated with the generated doxygen documentation. Doxygen sample configuration file to extract everything. Generating github wiki pages from doxygen style xml. Quality documentation is a hallmark of any healthy software project. Documents produced by doxygen are derivative works derived from the input used in their production. On the appearing page select the download method top right. If you use doxygen, you can generate your documentation directly from the command palette. How to automatically generate doxygen documentation using.
Eclox is a simple doxygen frontend plugin for eclipse. Building and installing the usrp opensource toolchain uhd and gnu radio on linux. I also happen to believe that gnu make is the greatest build system in the world, so you will have to live with looking at a tiny bit of makefile. There is also support for generating output in rtf msword, postscript, hyperlinked pdf, compressed html, and unix man pages. A new branch will be created in your fork and a new merge request will be started. I will assume you have at least a basic understanding of github, doxygen and travisci. Contribute to doxygen doxygen development by creating an account on github.
Doxygen will create a folder called docsapidocs in your root palisade directory. So since a github page s content has to be placed in the root directory of the gh pages branch, the task was to find an elegant way to generate the html documentation from the master branch into the gh pages branch. You can also choose to publish your project site from a different branch or folder. It makes a lot of sense to me to use doxygen for project documentation instead of creating it in the wiki. Please refer to the github pages documentation to decide which type of site. Get project updates, sponsored content from our select partners, and more. The git site has a download for windows that includes git bash and git. Click on the settings tab and scroll down to the github pages section. Autodeploying doxygen documentation to ghpages with travis ci. A silly c program to use for demonstrating doxygen. If you use the default publishing source for your github pages site, your site will publish automatically. You can then host the docs generated onto a real web site. If you are allergic to installers and guis, havent sufficient bandwidth, or dont have administrator priviledges you can also download the 32bit doxygen binary in a zip 18. I would use the feature pages proposed by github but unfortunately, pages cant be private.
If doxygen is in your path simply issue the command. In order to use the wikileaks public submission system as detailed above you can download the tor browser bundle, which is a firefoxlike browser available for windows, mac os x and gnulinux and preconfigured to connect using the anonymising system tor. It aims to provide a slim and sleek integration of the code documentation process into eclipse. Building and installing the usrp opensource toolchain. Although github template repositories can be used for all certain kinds of projects, it is extremely. Regarding the joel gloviers answer, i can use jekyll to create private pages on github. If youd like access to the latest and greatest in llvm development, please see the instructions for accessing the llvm git repository. In your git project folder create a new empty branch called gh pages on your repository. Chances are that youre already using it to generate a documentation from your source code. Here is a list of all documented files with brief descriptions. This post will guide you through the compilation process.
Since doxygen wants a single command to call using popen, im using a small script like. Technical documentation with doxygen ales nosek the. Create a project page the first thing you need to do is create a github project page. How to setup doxygen windows wiki palisade palisade. You will see a lot of see a lot of status lines and finished. Github pages is available in public repositories with github free and github free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with github pro. An assistant will help you to download tools and configure your project.
Github desktop is a great way to use git and github on macos and windows. Create private pages in github for doxygen documentation. Github pages are public web pages for users, organizations, and repositories, that are freely hosted on github s github. Pages in doxygen are used for documentation that is not directly attached to the source code entity like class, file or member. Creates a temporary workdir of the gh pages branch with git newworkdir. The structure of doxygen documentation ales nosek the. Ideally, id like to be able to push the generated files and directories to github without having to tweak them at all. Automatic documentation publishing with github and travisci. It is important to note here that github is a code repository, and github pages is. Doxygen sample configuration file to extract everything doxyfile.
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