Editing Doxygen (section)

{{short description|Documentation generator that supports extracting programming information from many languages}}
{{Infobox software
| name = Doxygen
| title = 
| logo = doxygen.png
| screenshot = Doxygen-1.8.1.png
| caption = 
| collapsible = 
| author = 
| developer = Dimitri van Heesch
| released = {{Start date and age|1997|10|26|df=yes}}<ref>[http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/1997-10/thread00297-0.html ANNOUNCE: doxygen 0.1] {{webarchive
 | url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20111004073015/http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/1997-10/thread00297-0.html
 | date = October 4, 2011}}, ''Announcing: the first release of Doxygen, a C++ documentation system.'' , From: Dimitri van Heesch, Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Qt-interest Archive</ref>
| discontinued = 
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|P348|P548=Q2804309}}                                             | latest release date    = {{Start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}|df=yes}}
| latest preview version = 
| latest preview date = 
| programming language = [[C++]]
| operating system = [[Cross-platform]]
| platform = 
| size = 
| language = 
| genre = [[Documentation generator]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPLv2]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.doxygen.nl/index.html|doxygen.nl}}
}}

'''Doxygen''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|ɒ|k|s|i|dʒ|ən}} {{respell|DOK|see-jən}})<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.doxygen.nl/manual/faq.html|title=Doxygen Manual: Frequently Asked Questions|website=www.doxygen.nl}}</ref> is a [[documentation generator]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/43632/title/Get-With-the-Program/ |title=Get With the Program: DIY tips for adding coding to your analysis arsenal |website=[[The Scientist (magazine)|The Scientist]] |type=[[Trade magazine|Journal]] |date=2015-11-22 |last=Perkel |first=Jeffrey M. |publisher=The Scientist}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://foss.unh.edu/resources/index.php/Doxygen |title=Doxygen |website=OpenComputing |type=[[Wiki]] |date=2015-11-22 |last=Sabin |first=Mihaela |publisher=University of New Hampshire |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123030546/http://foss.unh.edu/resources/index.php/Doxygen |archivedate=2015-11-23 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Doxygen |title=Doxygen |website=Free Software Directory |type=[[Wiki]] |date=2015-11-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Documentation |title=Documentation |website=[[Rosetta Code]] |type=[[Wiki]] |date=2015-11-22}}</ref> that works with many [[programming language]]s. It extracts information from specially-formatted [[source code]] [[Comment (computer programming)|comments]] and saves the information in one of various supported [[File format|formats]].

Doxygen supports [[Static program analysis|static analysis]] of a [[codebase]]. It uses the [[parse tree]] parsed from the codebase to generate diagrams and charts of the code structure. It provides [[Cross-reference|cross-referencing]] that a reader can use to refer back to the source code from the generated documentation.

Doxygen can be used in many programming contexts. It supports many languages including [[C (programming language)|C]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Documentation#C |title=Documentation: C |website=[[Rosetta Code]] |type=[[Wiki]] |date=2015-11-22}}</ref> [[C++]], [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], [[D (programming language)|D]], [[Fortran]], [[Interface Definition Language|IDL]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[Objective-C]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Documentation#Objective-C |title=Documentation: Objective-C |website=[[Rosetta Code]] |type=[[Wiki]] |date=2015-11-22}}</ref> [[Perl]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://metacpan.org/pod/Doxygen::Filter::Perl|title=Doxygen::Filter::Perl - A perl code pre-filter for Doxygen - metacpan.org|website=metacpan.org}}</ref> [[PHP]],<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.doxygen.nl/manual/starting.html|title=Doxygen Manual: Getting started|website=www.doxygen.nl}}</ref> [[Python (programming language)|Python]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://wiki.python.org/moin/DocumentationTools#Automatic_Python_API_documentation_generation_tools |title=Automatic Python API documentation generation tools |website=python.org wiki |type=[[Wiki]] |date=2015-11-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/Feneric/doxypypy|title=doxypypy: A Doxygen filter for Python|first=Eric W.|last=Brown|via=PyPI}}</ref> and [[VHDL]].<ref name="auto"/> It can run on many computers, including [[Unix-like]], [[macOS]], and [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] systems. It is [[free software]], released under the terms of the [[GNU General Public License|GNU General Public License version{{nbsp}}2]] (GPLv2).