Doxygen

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Doxygen is a documentation system that also extracts information from the source files directly.

Current documentation generated from the master branch can be found under paparazzi.github.com/docs.

Doxygen Comments

Please document the code using doxygen comments instead of normal comments where appropriate.

See the Doxygen Manual for more details.

File

/**
 * @file subsystems/nav.h
 * Navigation library.
 *
 * This collection of macros and functions is used by the C code generated
 * from the XML flight plan.
 */

Function

/**
 * A brief one line description.
 *
 * Detailed description
 * May span multiple lines or paragraphs as needed
 *
 * @param  Description of method's or function's input parameter
 * @param  ...
 * @return Description of the return value
 */
int function(int parameter)
{
    printf("Parameter: %d", parameter);

    return 0;
}


Generating Doxygen Code Documentation yourself

A way to look at the includes and dependencies is to use the graphs generated with doxygen. After installing Paparazzi, install Doxygen:

sudo apt-get install doxygen graphviz

run the generation tool from the paparazzi/ directory:

doxygen

Now Doxygen will have generated html documentation(open this with any web browser) in your paparazzi/html/docs folder.

To look at a list of all of the files used by the airborne software:

paparazzi/doc/html/docs/files.html

The main_ap.c will also interest you.

paparazzi/doc/html/docs/main__ap_8c.html

This is a sample of a Doxygen Graph: Include dependency graph for autopilot.h