[cfe-dev] A new clang-based documentation tool

[barbara via cfe-dev]

As the developers of DoxyPress we have become extremely familiar with 
the code base we inherited from Doxygen two years ago. There is an 
option in Doxygen for clang assisted parsing using libClang, not 
libTooling.  It is not using clang as the primary parser for C++.  The 
maintainer uses libClang in conjunction with the lex only parser to 
process the names of templates when the lex parser reaches an invalid 
state.

DoxyPress was refactored over a year ago to use a combination of 
libClang to extract comments and libTooling for full C++ parsing. 
Neither library was sufficient on its own.  We have worked with many 
companies who were unable to parse C++ code with Doxygen who can now use 
DoxyPress seamlessly.

As a great test we have generated docs for clang itself with a better 
html output than current Doxygen output.  Doxygen was a great product at 
one time but each time C++ changes the maintainer has to add new lex 
rules by hand to the parser.  Cool part about using clang is we get 
support for the new standard with very little effort.


Barbara
Co-Founder of CopperSpice and DoxyPress



On 8/2/2017 11:37 PM, Csaba Raduly via cfe-dev wrote:
> There's also Doxygen, which can also use clang libraries for parsing :)
>




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