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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. Create a build directory (for instance inside the source tree) cd doxygen-$VERSION mkdir build cd build
  3. Run cmake with the makefile generator cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" .. cmake tries to determine the platform you use, and will look for the requires tools. It will report if something is missing. If you have Qt-5.14 or higher installed and want to build the GUI front-end, you should enable it as follows: cmake -Dbuild_wizard=YES .. For an overview of other configuration options use cmake -L ..
  4. 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 within the build directory.
  5. Optional: Generate the user manual. cmake -Dbuild_doc=YES .. make docs To let doxygen generate the HTML and PDF documentation. The HTML directory within the build directory will now contain the html documentation (just point a HTML browser to the file index.html in the html directory).
  6. Optional: static linking If you want to build a statically linked version of doxygen that embeds libclang you need to first build LLVM and clang from sources using the following options: cmake -DLIBCLANG_BUILD_STATIC=ON \ -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF \ -DLLVM_ENABLE_PIC=OFF \ -DLLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB=OFF \ -DLLVM_BUILD_LLVM_C_DYLIB=OFF \ -DLLVM_ENABLE_TERMINFO=OFF \ path_to_llvm_root_source_dir and then build doxygen with these options: cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ "-DCMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES=.a" \ "-ldl;-lz;-lpthread" \ -Duse_libclang=YES \ path_to_doxygen_root_source_dir
\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 Linux, type: make install Binaries are installed into the directory /usr/local/bin, man pages in /usr/local/man/man1 and documentation in /usr/local/doc/doxygen To change this just edit the Makefile. \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 DEB package, then please follow the standard installation procedure that is required for these packages. \section install_src_windows Compiling from source on Windows From version 1.8.10 onwards, build files need to be generated by cmake. cmake can be downloaded from https://cmake.org/download/ \addindex cmake At the moment only the community version of Visual Studio 2019 is tested, but other version might also work. Alternatively, you can compile doxygen \ref install_src_unix "the UNIX way" using Cygwin or MinGW. \addindex flex \addindex bison The next step is to install modern versions of \c bison and \c flex (see https://sourceforge.net/projects/winflexbison/. After installation and adding them to your `path` rename `win_flex.exe` to `flex.exe` and `win_bison.exe` to `bison.exe`) \addindex python Furthermore you have to install \c python (version 2.7 or higher, see https://www.python.org). These packages are needed during the compilation process. Download doxygen's source tarball and put it somewhere (e.g. use c:\\tools) Now start a visual studio native command shell (for either x86 or x64) and type \verbatim cd c:\tools tar zxvf doxygen-x.y.z.src.tar.gz \endverbatim to unpack the sources (you can obtain \c tar from e.g. http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html). Alternatively you can use an unpack program, like 7-Zip (see https://www.7-zip.org/) or use the built-in unpack feature of modern Windows systems). Now your environment is setup to generate the required project files for \c doxygen. cd into the \c doxygen-x.y.z directory, create and cd to a build directory \verbatim mkdir build cd build cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015" .. \endverbatim This will create a project file then can be opened in Visual Studio. If you prefer compiling from the command prompt you can use the following instead: \verbatim mkdir build cd build cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" .. nmake \endverbatim Note that compiling Doxywizard requires Qt 5.14 or newer (see https://www.qt.io/developers). 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 2.38 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 configuration file, then you need the Microsoft HTML help workshop. In the beginning of 2021 Microsoft took the original page, with a.o. the download links, offline the HTML help workshop was already many years in maintenance mode). You can download the HTML help workshop from the web archives at Installation executable. If you want to produce Qt Compressed Help files (see \ref cfg_qhg_location "QHG_LOCATION") in the configuration 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 (or gswin64c.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. \htmlonly Go to the next section or return to the index. \endhtmlonly */