This time I want to implement Sphinx in Linux. Please give me the API required to do the same or the concerned link will also do. Although I found many for PHP, however none for C++.
I have also used GTKmm in my application.
There is no API to do this. Sphinx will process text files in reStructuredText format and turn them into documentation. The ability to extract documentation from source code is only present for python code. For other languages you will need to put the documentation in the reStructuredText files directly. Do not be confused by the added C/C++/etc. support in Sphinx 1.0: this only covers new reStructeredText directives to better format (and index) documentation regarding non-python code.
It is theoretically possible to use a tool like Doxygen to extract documentation from C++ sources and use that in Sphinx, but this requires custom tools. Breathe may be one such tool.
Here is the resource that pretty much explains everything step-by-step that is needed to build a C/C++ source tree to show up with Sphinx documentation.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/clear-functional-c-documentation-with-sphinx-breathe-doxygen-cmake/
A brief of the pipeline: Doxygen -> Breathe -> Exhale -> Sphinx
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I have a project which was designed by SOAP. It was opened on eclipse.
I would like to use a software for auto generate a document(html file) for developer tutorial .
It was generated by comment on above function.
Thanks,
Use oxygen as stefan already said, it's free and you can get it here: http://www.doxygen.nl/download.html
Generate documentation from source code
Doxygen is the de facto standard tool for generating documentation
from annotated C++ sources, but it also supports other popular
programming languages such as C, Objective-C, C#, PHP, Java, Python,
IDL (Corba, Microsoft, and UNO/OpenOffice flavors), Fortran, VHDL,
Tcl, and to some extent D.
Doxygen can help you in three ways:
It can generate an on-line documentation browser (in HTML) and/or an
off-line reference manual (in ) from a set of documented source files.
There is also support for generating output in RTF (MS-Word),
PostScript, hyperlinked PDF, compressed HTML, and Unix man pages. The
documentation is extracted directly from the sources, which makes it
much easier to keep the documentation consistent with the source code.
You can configure doxygen to extract the code structure from
undocumented source files. This is very useful to quickly find your
way in large source distributions. Doxygen can also visualize the
relations between the various elements by means of include dependency
graphs, inheritance diagrams, and collaboration diagrams, which are
all generated automatically. You can also use doxygen for creating
normal documentation (as I did for the doxygen user manual and
web-site). Doxygen is developed under Mac OS X and Linux, but is
set-up to be highly portable. As a result, it runs on most other Unix
flavors as well. Furthermore, executables for Windows are available.
I am using Sphinx to generate documentation for a Django project, and it is working really well. However it seems to be necessary to write the .rst files yourself, and once that is done, sphinx will compile the documentation from the docstrings when you run make HTML.
My questions is:
I am looking for the docs to reflect new additions to the project automatically without having to edit the .rst files manually.
As everything in Django always seems so simple, I find it odd that you have to create the rst files for the entire project manually, I would have thought that there is something that already exists, that automatically inspects the structure of the project, and builds the rst's from that.
I have looked at this project http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-sphinx-autodoc/0.0 which looks promising, but I am surprised that there is not something more mature.
Since a while, Sphinx apidoc is bundled with Sphinx. This can create a full set of .rst files for you.
It becomes more of a problem if you want to document all the various django applications that you use in one site (this seems to be what you want). Sphinx apidoc wants a bunch of directories to scan for python packages.
I'm new to the Fix protocol and I've been trying to find a way to implement it into c++ files starting from a XML description file. So by searching on the net they recommended me with Quickfix, what I really want to know is what do we should call QuickFix? A library or a standard or what exactly?
But my main problem is that lately I downloaded the Quickfix package then I couldn't integrate it into my c++ project even with the QuickFix documentation ( which was vague by the way !) so can someone please describe to me exactly step by step how to configure QuickFix with My Visual c++ project and how can I eventually write this code to parse my XML file:
#include "Application.h"
#include "quickfix/Session.h"
Quickfix doesn't understand XML or parses XML, except for the message bank config file which is in XML. It only deals in FIX formatted strings. You have to use a XML parser i.e. xerces, libxml++ to extract your data in the XML file and then construct a FIX message using the Quickfix library and send wherever you want to.
Fiximate is a more user friendly place to check your FIX messages for correctness. There are examples in the Quickfix library to test an application, and you would need a config file to run it, examples are provided on the Quickfix website.
FIX is a standard: fixprotocol.org/specifications
QuickFIX is a FIX engine (c.f. Library) implementing the standard.
In the source files that you downloaded there is a set of examples which you can use to understand the operation of the engine. You should use these along side the documentation.
QuickFix is a library. There are other FIX engines also available.
It simplifies the implementation by taking care of many low-level things. All a developer has to do is enhance the APIs for messages.
There are good examples for a quick start and good documentation for a beginner.
To get into more details of QuickFix, code itself is well organized.
I'm a vi user for coding in Python. I love it: powerful, lowlevel, minimal gui without useless buttons, etc.
Now I'm approaching C++ with an opensource project that—as usual happened in opensource project—has poor documentation and sometimes (well, a lot of times) I have to open declaration and implementation and see what a particular function does.
In Eclipse this is really easy to do due to the Open Declaration (shortcut F3) feature. But I don't like the CDT plugin for Eclipse. I have a makefile project and it indicates some error in importing external .cpp files inside this opensource framework that requires a custom structure for directory and build path (and it's annoying to create a project every time in Eclipse for this custom structure).
I wish to have the same feature in vi. Do you know of anything?
Vim doesn't offer a feature like that by itself. A rudimentary way would be to use gd in command mode. If you want more sophisticated support, take a look at ctags and cscope. Those tools offer which you ask for and integrate nicely into Vim. A quick google search brought me to this link, which explains how to use cscope within Vim. Using ctags quite as easy: generate the ctags database/tags file and use Ctrl+] on an identifier to jump to its declaration. See :help ctags for more information.
One option: Use QT Creator with FakeVim mode enabled. You can follow declarations with F2.
I thought there was a boost library that allowed me to parse unix conf files?
I believe it also had other features, i.e. it could parse windows ini files and I think XML based config files might have been done or was on the way too.
Any idea what that's called? I'm looking through the program options library and it doesn't look like the library documentation that I was looking to use just a couple of weeks ago.
EDIT: Ok, I think it's might have been the program options library, but I think I might have been looking at other documentation examples... maybe the tutorials.
Can someone point me in the direction of a complete tutorial to read a conf file?
EDIT: Found it. The Boost Property Tree library that I was looking for!
Boost allows you to parse several configuration file formats; this facility is part of Boost.ProgramOptions.
All the answers on this page are good.
The specific library in boost I was after is called the Property Tree. However, I will point out that his is a relatively new feature and only available since the last one or two revisions. My default boost installation in Kubuntu 10.04.1 doesn't have it, so I had to download the boost library and build it myself.
You're maybe looking for Spirit