doxygen/BUILD.txt

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Doxygen uses cmake (http://www.cmake.org/) to build executables for various platforms.
At least cmake version 3.3 is required.
The first step is to create a build directory where the output should be stored.
Doxygen can be fully built outside of the source tree.
The second step is to invoke cmake from within the build directory with the desired generator.
For Linux/Unix systems do the following:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" path/to/root/of/doxygen/source/tree
make
This also works for MacOS, but if XCode is installed you can also generate an XCode project file
cmake -G XCode path/to/root/of/doxygen/source/tree
For Windows one can generate a Visual Studio project using
cmake -G "Visual Studio 12 2013" path\to\root\of\doxygen\source\tree
(this is for Visual Studio 12, there are typically also generators for other versions of
Visual Studio or other compiler environments like MinGW)
Doxygen's cmake configuration provides a number of options:
- build_wizard Build the GUI frontend for doxygen.
- build_app Example showing how to embed doxygen in an application.
- build_parse Parses source code and dumps the dependencies between the code elements.
- build_xmlparser Example showing how to parse doxygen's XML output.
- build_search Build external search tools (doxysearch and doxyindexer).
- build_doc Build user manual.
- use_sqlite3 Add support for sqlite3 output [experimental].
- use_libclang Add support for libclang parsing.
- win_static Link with /MT in stead of /MD on windows.
- force_qt=<vers> Forces doxywizard to build using the specified major version, this can be Qt5 or Qt6
An option can be turned on, by adding -D<option>=ON as a command line option, this can be
done when generating the initial build files, but also afterwards, i.e. to enable building
of the documentation after an initial cmake -G run, do
cmake -Dbuild_doc=ON path/to/root/of/doxygen/source/tree
To turn the option off use
cmake -Dbuild_doc=OFF path/to/root/of/doxygen/source/tree
To see the current value is of the various options, you can run
cmake -L path/to/root/of/doxygen/source/tree
The build target for building the documentation is 'docs' and the build target for
the regression tests is 'tests'