How to get doxygen to run faster?

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1800 INFORMATION picture 1800 INFORMATION · Oct 15, 2008 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

Doxygen is a bit slow - it takes about a couple of minutes to process my whole project, so for small incremental changes this is longer than actually building the rest of my code. There are thousands of files without any documentation so I guess it is spending most of its time processing them. Is there any way to get it to skip files without any documentation?

What about getting it to only process changed files?

Answer

Ricardo Amores picture Ricardo Amores · Nov 4, 2008

From Doxygen documentation:

How can I exclude all test directories from my directory tree?

Simply put an exclude pattern like this in the configuration file:

EXCLUDE_PATTERNS = /test/

So, you should be using patterns to exclude files. It's been a long time since I've used Doxygen, but i don't remember any option to process only changed files.

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