If you downloaded the source distribution, you need at least the following to build the executable:
To use the search engine doxysearch,
you will also need a HTTP daemon running on the target system and permission to execute a CGI binary.
Once you have Qt installed correctly, you can simply enter:
make
make
followed by your platform will compile doxygen. For Linux you can enter the following: make linux-g++
Doxygen should compile without errors or warnings. If it does not, please send the compilation errors or warnings along with a description of your platform to dimitri@stack.nl.
After compilation, the binaries will be located in the bin
directory of the distribution. You may want to copy these files to a location in your path (/usr/local/bin
for instance) or add the bin
directory of the distribution to your search path.
The following binaries should now be available:
doxygen:
for generating the class browser. doxytag:
for creating a tag file containing references to external documentation. doxysearch:
the search engine. This binary should not be executed directly. It must be called from an CGI script that will be generated by doxygen. Doxygen was developed and tested under Linux using the following tools:
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