Specify Doxygen parameters through command line

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Potney Switters picture Potney Switters · Jun 14, 2012 · Viewed 19.6k times · Source

Well I am creating a script to automatically generate documentation for my projects with Doxygen, which seems like an awesome tool.
What is not clear to me, is if the user can use specify directly parameters, such as project name, project description etc., by setting them besides command:

doxygen -g "parameter modification here"
doxygen Doxyfile

Any tips appreciated!

Answer

doxygen picture doxygen · Jun 14, 2012

Look at the answer for question 17 in the FAQ: http://www.doxygen.nl/manual/faq.html#faq_cmdline, repeated below for convenience:

Can I configure doxygen from the command line?

Not via command line options, but doxygen can read from stdin, so you can pipe things through it. Here's an example how to override an option in a configuration file from the command line (assuming a UNIX environment):

( cat Doxyfile ; echo "PROJECT_NUMBER=1.0" ) | doxygen -

For Windows the following would do the same:

( type Doxyfile & echo PROJECT_NUMBER=1.0 ) | doxygen.exe -

If multiple options with the same name are specified then doxygen will use the last one. To append to an existing option you can use the += operator.

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