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Eclipse and Doxygen

seasoned_geek by seasoned_geek

Eclipse and Doxygen can be a bit non-obvious to configure. Once again StackOverflow allows people who know absolutely nothing to close questions. I have written about the closed question more than once on here. Give people without a clue a little bit of power and they will run amuck.

Eclipse is not something I use often. There are a few embedded systems shops still using it but most roll their own cross compile or use the general one provided by the SOM vendors. Usually they are too busy to give you either a config file or written instructions on how to configure Eclipse for their shop. Almost every project uses Doxygen these days. One of the most active questions on StackOverflow is that closed question which should tell you what a trash heap “the stacks” have become.

Words Don’t Explain It

Almost everybody types Window->Preferences->Editor and kind of stops there.

That combobox in the “Documentation tool comments” frame. Change it to Doxygen.

If you do not see Doxygen as an option, exit eclipse, use the Synaptic package manager to install doxygen and graphviz. Restart your computer just in case, then start Eclipse and try again.

Roland Hughes started his IT career in the early 1980s. He quickly became a consultant and president of Logikal Solutions, a software consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS application and C++/Qt touchscreen/embedded Linux development. Early in his career he became involved in what is now called cross platform development. Given the dearth of useful books on the subject he ventured into the world of professional author in 1995 writing the first of the "Zinc It!" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc.

A decade later he released a massive (nearly 800 pages) tome "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" which tried to encapsulate the essential skills gained over what was nearly a 20 year career at that point. From there "The Minimum You Need to Know" book series was born.

Three years later he wrote his first novel "Infinite Exposure" which got much notice from people involved in the banking and financial security worlds. Some of the attacks predicted in that book have since come to pass. While it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, it became the first book of "The Earth That Was" trilogy:
Infinite Exposure
Lesedi - The Greatest Lie Ever Told
John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars

When he is not consulting Roland Hughes posts about technology and sometimes politics on his blog. He also has regularly scheduled Sunday posts appearing on the Interesting Authors blog.