Re: [Doxygen-users] Getting lua2dox filter to work

[Fabian C. <Cen...@in...>]

At 11:43 20.10.2014, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I want to document some lua files with doxygen, using the lua2dox
>filter from Simon Dales. When run as standalone and redirected the
>converted output to a .c file doxygen can then create some
>documentation from it.
>However when I try to directly document the lua file and configure
>the filter in the doxyfile I get no output. Doxygen sees the lua file,
>the filter is called (I also write the converted text into a file to check
>the output) but doxygen doesn't seem to find any useful input.
>
>Are there some switches to debug doxygen to see what it's
>doing, apart from WARNINGS and QUIET? Are there any
>possibilities why a filter might work standalone but not as
>filter inside doxygen?
>
>Has somebody else used doxygen with lua? Are there any filters
>that are not available on the internet? I'd be happy with something
>in lua or python, but not perl.
>
>Could lua be added natively to doxygen (parser modularisation?)?

It seems I was missing

EXTENSION_MAPPING      = lua=C

in the doxyfile. Now at least I'm getting some output. However the
other questions still stand.

Thanks

bye  Fabi