Doxygen is the de facto standard tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ and other languages like C#, Java, Python, PHP etc.
It is used by other tools like Code Graph.
Also see article Generate UML with Doxygen.
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Pros
Pro Free
Pro Generates documentation from comments
Doxygen can generate documentation from formatted comments in the source code. This is extremely useful when writing detailed man pages.
Pro Cross-platform
Doxygen is compatible with multiple languages. Including but not limited to: C, Objective-C, C#, C++, Java, Python, PHP etc...
Cons
Con i18n support is poor
Cannot work properly with non-ascii paths on Windows
Con PDF output is very problematic
Doxygen PDF output relies on the now broken LaTeX tabu package which was abandoned over a decade ago by its developer.
Con No recursive inclusion
For example, if you specify INCLUDE_PATH=incl
, it doesn't search other folders included in the incl
folder (incl/sub1
or incl/sub2
) and there's no option to turn on recursive inclusion.
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