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  1. Unpack the archive, unless you already have done that: gunzip doxygen-$VERSION.src.tar.gz # uncompress the archive tar xf doxygen-$VERSION.src.tar # unpack it
  2. Run the configure script: sh ./configure The script tries to determine the platform you use, the make tool (which \e must be GNU make) and the perl interpreter. It will report what it finds. To override the auto detected platform and compiler you can run configure as follows: configure --platform platform-type See the PLATFORMS file for a list of possible platform options. If you have Qt-4.3 or higher installed and want to build the GUI front-end, you should run the configure script with the --with-doxywizard option: configure --with-doxywizard For an overview of other configuration options use configure --help
  3. Compile the program by running make: make The program should compile without problems and the binaries (doxygen and optionally doxywizard) should be available in the bin directory of the distribution.
  4. Optional: Generate the user manual. make docs To let doxygen generate the HTML documentation. The HTML directory of the distribution will now contain the html documentation (just point a HTML browser to the file index.html in the html directory). You will need the python interpreter for this.
  5. Optional: Generate a PDF version of the manual (you will need pdflatex, makeindex, and egrep for this). make pdf The PDF manual doxygen_manual.pdf will be located in the latex directory of the distribution. Just view and print it via the acrobat reader.
\section install_bin_unix Installing the binaries on UNIX After the compilation of the source code do a make install to install doxygen. If you downloaded the binary distribution for UNIX, type: ./configure make install Binaries are installed into the directory \/bin. Use make install_docs to install the documentation and examples into \/doxygen. \ defaults to /usr/local but can be changed with the --prefix option of the configure script. The default \ directory is \/share/doc/packages and can be changed with the --docdir option of the configure script. Alternatively, you can also copy the binaries from the bin directory manually to some bin directory in your search path. This is sufficient to use doxygen. \note You need the GNU install tool for this to work (it is part of the coreutils package). Other install tools may put the binaries in the wrong directory! If you have a RPM or DEP package, then please follow the standard installation procedure that is required for these packages. \section unix_problems Known compilation problems for UNIX Qt problems The Qt include files and libraries are not a subdirectory of the directory pointed to by QTDIR on some systems (for instance on Red Hat 6.0 includes are in /usr/include/qt and libs are in /usr/lib). The solution: go to the root of the doxygen distribution and do: mkdir qt cd qt ln -s your-qt-include-dir-here include ln -s your-qt-lib-dir-here lib ln -s your-qt-bin-dir-here bin export QTDIR=$PWD If you have a csh-like shell you should use setenv QTDIR \$PWD instead of the export command above. Now install doxygen as described above. Bison problems Versions 1.31 to 1.34 of \c bison contain a "bug" that results in a compiler errors like this: ce_parse.cpp:348: member `class CPPValue yyalloc::yyvs' with constructor not allowed in union This problem has been solved in version 1.35 (versions before 1.31 will also work). Sun compiler problems It appears that doxygen doesn't work properly if it is compiled with Sun's C++ WorkShop Compiler. I cannot verify this myself as I do not have access to a Solaris machine with this compiler. With GNU compiler it does work and installing Sun patch 111679-13 has also been reported as a way to fix the problem. when configuring with `--static` I got: \verbatim Undefined first referenced symbol in file dlclose /usr/lib/libc.a(nss_deffinder.o) dlsym /usr/lib/libc.a(nss_deffinder.o) dlopen /usr/lib/libc.a(nss_deffinder.o) \endverbatim Manually adding `-Bdynamic` after the target rule in `Makefile.doxygen` will fix this: $(TARGET): $(OBJECTS) $(OBJMOC) $(LINK) $(LFLAGS) -o $(TARGET) $(OBJECTS) $(OBJMOC) $(LIBS) -Bdynamic GCC compiler problems Older versions of the GNU compiler have problems with constant strings containing characters with character codes larger than 127. Therefore the compiler will fail to compile some of the translator_xx.h files. A workaround, if you are planning to use the English translation only, is to configure doxygen with the --english-only option. On some platforms (such as OpenBSD) using some versions of gcc with -O2 can lead to eating all memory during the compilation of files such as config.cpp. As a workaround use --debug as a configure option or omit the -O2 for the particular files in the Makefile. Gcc versions before 2.95 may produce broken binaries due to bugs in these compilers. Dot problems Due to a change in the way image maps are generated, older versions of doxygen (\<=1.2.17) will not work correctly with newer versions of graphviz (\>=1.8.8). The effect of this incompatibility is that generated graphs in HTML are not properly clickable. For doxygen 1.3 it is recommended to use at least graphviz 1.8.10 or higher. For doxygen 1.4.7 or higher it is recommended to use GraphViz 2.8 or higher to avoid font issues. Red Hat 9.0 problems If you get the following error after running make \verbatim tmake error: qtools.pro:70: Syntax error \endverbatim then first type \verbatim export LANG= \endverbatim before running make. \section install_src_windows Compiling from source on Windows From version 1.7.0 onwards, build files are provided for Visual Studio 2008. Also the free (as in beer) "Express" version of Developer Studio can be used to compile doxygen. Alternatively, you can compile doxygen \ref install_src_unix "the UNIX way" using Cygwin or MinGW. The next step is to install \c bison, \c flex, \c tar (see http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html) and \c python (version 2, see http://www.python.org). This packages are needed during the compilation process if you use a GitHub snapshot of doxygen (the official source releases come with pre-generated sources). Download doxygen's source tarball and put it somewhere (e.g. use c:\\tools) Now start a new command shell and type \verbatim cd c:\tools tar zxvf doxygen-x.y.z.src.tar.gz \endverbatim to unpack the sources. Now your environment is setup to build \c doxygen. Inside the \c doxygen-x.y.z directory you will find a \c winbuild directory containing a \c Doxygen.sln file. Open this file in Visual Studio. You can now build the Release or Debug flavor of Doxygen by right-clicking the project in the solutions explorer, and selecting Build. Note that compiling Doxywizard currently requires Qt version 4 (see http://qt-project.org/). Also read the next section for additional tools you may need to install to run doxygen with certain features enabled. \section install_bin_windows Installing the binaries on Windows Doxygen comes as a self-installing archive, so installation is extremely simple. Just follow the dialogs. After installation it is recommended to also download and install GraphViz (version 2.20 or better is highly recommended). Doxygen can use the \c dot tool of the GraphViz package to render nicer diagrams, see the \ref cfg_have_dot "HAVE_DOT" option in the configuration file. If you want to produce compressed HTML files (see \ref cfg_generate_htmlhelp "GENERATE_HTMLHELP") in the config file, then you need the Microsoft HTML help workshop. You can download it from Microsoft. If you want to produce Qt Compressed Help files (see \ref cfg_qhg_location "QHG_LOCATION") in the config file, then you need qhelpgenerator which is part of Qt. You can download Qt from Qt Software Downloads. In order to generate PDF output or use scientific formulas you will also need to install LaTeX and Ghostscript. For LaTeX a number of distributions exists. Popular ones that should work with doxygen are MikTex and proTeXt. Ghostscript can be downloaded from Sourceforge. After installing LaTeX and Ghostscript you'll need to make sure the tools latex.exe, pdflatex.exe, and gswin32c.exe are present in the search path of a command box. Follow these instructions if you are unsure and run the commands from a command box to verify it works. \section build_tools Tools used to develop doxygen Doxygen was developed and tested under Linux & MacOSX using the following open-source tools: \htmlonly Go to the next section or return to the index. \endhtmlonly */