Codedoc v3.6

Codedoc is a general-purpose utility which scans HTML, markdown, C, and C++ source files to produce EPUB, HTML, and man page documentation that can be read by humans. Unlike popular C/C++ documentation generators like Doxygen or Javadoc, Codedoc uses in-line comments rather than comment headers, allowing for more "natural" code documentation. Additional markdown documentation content can be included to make the generated documentation even more useful and complete.

Codedoc was originally bundled with the Mini-XML library as the mxmldoc utility.

Changes in v3.6

Added support for syntax highlighting of C and C++ code.
Added support for literal links (functions, types, etc.) using the "@@" target.
Added support for ::WIDTHxHEIGHT in image (ALT) text.
Added support for markdown-style block quotes in comments.
Fixed support for embedded images in EPUB output.
Fixed some parsing issues for the public typedef - private struct design pattern, resulting in undocumented typedefs.
Fixed a LGTM-detected bug in the description writing code.
No longer output unnecessary whitespace in HTML/EPUB output, for a modest savings in file size.

Changes in v3.5

Added support for C++ block comments.
Fixed support for function types.
Fixed support for private typedef struct/class/union constructions.
Fixed support for markdown bullet lists.
Fixed output of Unicode text.
Now use the "title" class for the cover image in HTML and EPUB output.
Now place the table of contents along the side for HTML output.
No longer strip quoted text ('text') in comments unless the text ends with '()'.

Changes in v3.4

Added support for C++ namespaces (Issue #7)
Silenced some warnings from the LGTM security scanner.

Changes in v3.3

Added basic markdown support in comments (Issue #6)
Added a --language option to override the default documentation language "en-US".
EPUB and HTML output now set the "generator" META content.
Did some minor code reorganization/cleanup.

Changes in v3.2

The default HTML stylesheet no longer puts an outline box around monospaced text (Issue #2)
Fixed signed character issues with fuzzer-generated "code" (Issue #3, Issue #4)
Fixed a buffer overflow issue with fuzzer-generated "code" (Issue #5)
Now use the base name of the cover image filename in HTML output.
Fixed some markdown parsing issues.

Changes in v3.1

Fixed compile problems with Mini-XML v3.0.
Greatly improved scanning of HTML content when generating the table of contents.
Updated the markdown support with external links, additional inline markup, and hard line breaks.
Copyright, trademark, and registered trademark symbols are now correctly mapped from their ASCII and UTF-8 representations to the output format's preferred encoding (Issue #1)
Added documentation on EPUB and HTML stylesheets.

Changes in v3.0

Fixed potential crash bugs in mxmldoc found by fuzzing.
The --header and --footer options now support markdown.
The mxmldoc program now sets the EPUB subject ("Programming").
Improved EPUB error reporting and output.
Man page output now uses the ISO date format (yyyy-mm-dd)
Dropped support for --framed basename since frame sets are deprecated in HTML 5.

Building Codedoc

Codedoc comes with a simple makefile that will work on most Linux/UNIX systems and macOS, and depends on ZLIB. Type make to build the software:

make

Installing Codedoc

To install the software, run:

sudo make install

The default install prefix is /usr/local, which can be overridden using the prefix variable:

sudo make install prefix=/foo

Documentation

The codedoc man page provides documentation on how to use it. Further documentation can be found in the file "DOCUMENTATION.md".

Getting Help And Reporting Problems

The codedoc project page provides access to the Github issue tracking page:

https://www.msweet.org/codedoc

Legal Stuff

Codedoc is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0. See the files "LICENSE" and "NOTICE" for more information.

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