Re: [Doxygen-users] error: could not open file... for writing

[Dimitri v. H. <do...@gm...>]

On 11/19/05, Thomas Mang <gra...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> For some reason, doxygen cannot write files into the directory it is
> supposed to output html-doc (I haven't tried other doc styles, only html =
-
> I
> am learning doxygen....).
>
> According to the log, parsing etc. works fine, but output not ("Could not
> open file ... for writing").
>
> I have tried sample projects (located in another dir) that work perfectly
> fine. Maybe some dir properties doxygen does not like or does it have som=
e
> limitations I am unaware of (max. of 256 chars per file name including
> dir?)
>
> Any ideas what the problem could be?



It is probably a file-system limitation (Windows I presume). If you use the
latest CVS version of doxygen it should be fixed. You can also set
SHORT_NAMES to YES if you do not need persistent anchors or somewhat
readable names.
Regards,
Dimitri