Development/Tools/apidox

Intro

The KDE project uses doxygen to generate API documentation from source code.

Please see our documentation policy and tutorial.

Generating

HTML pages

Generate apidox in the KDE format using % cd html_dir % /path/to/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/doc/api/doxygen.sh --recurse \

   --doxdatadir=/path/to/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/doc/common \
   /path/to/trunk/KDE/kdelibs

Notes:

• You must type the paths in full - the script doesn't understand tilde ('~') representing your home directory. However, you can use the $HOME environment variable instead.

• The QTDOCDIR environment variable should point to the html folder of the Qt documentation. If QTDOCDIR is not set, doxygen.sh will try to find the documentation based on the value of QTDIR.

To generate documentation in doxygen style instead of KDE style, use kdedoxygen.sh: % cd source_dir % /path/to/trunk/KDE/kdesdk/scripts/kdedoxygen.sh

You'll find the top-level html at ./apidocs/html/index.html Load that page into your favorite web browser, review your documentation, then edit your code accordingly.

Warnings from doxygen will be found in ./doxygen.log. Please try to fix all warnings reported by doxygen.

Man pages

Man page lovers can generate man pages using kdedoxyman.sh Like so: % cd source_dir % /path/trunk/KDE/kdesdk/scripts/kdedoxyman.sh -d /path/kdeinstall/share
You can also generate man pages from Qt source code using kdedoxyman.sh: % cd qt-copy/src % /path/trunk/KDE/kdesdk/scripts/kdedoxyman.sh -d /path/kdeinstall/share
and then add /path/kdeinstall/share/man to your $MANPATH environment variable.