Re: [Doxygen-users] Doxygen can't find dot

[Marinna L. <ma...@vi...>]

I used the binary installer.   I don't trust myself enough to try a
source compile on Windows and not have to waste a day trying to figure
out why it doesn't work, though I do most of my Linux installs via
source--that isn't relevant anyway. :P  When I run dot (or doxygen) from
the command line, I generally go to the directory where my source files
are (so where I store my *.dot or *.doxyfile) and run the program
there.  Yes, dot does work fine from any directory I am in.  Before I
generated my source files, I also tried the good ol' dot --help trick to
see if I got output instead of an error, and in my "home" directory,
that works quite well.

Worse comes to worse, I'll just move the code base I want to document
over to the Linux server and do the documentation there.

~ Marinna

David Backeberg wrote:
> How did you install your doxygen on Windows? Did you download separate
> packages and bulid from source or did you download the monolithic
> install file and run that?
>
> As for the unstoppable number of "dot not found" messages, one is
> generated for each callgraph doxygen can't generate. The messages
> probably seem interminable, but there is a finite number of them. If
> you're running from the command line you might try Ctrl-C ing the app
> when that starts happening.
>
> You say you have the PATH set up properly. So regardless of which
> directory you're in at the command prompt dot is properly found?
>
> On 6/7/06, Marinna Lee <ma...@vi...> wrote:
>> When I run doxygen with HAVE_DOT = YES, I have issues.  It says 
>> "Windows cannot find 'dot'.  Make sure you typed the name correctly, 
>> and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, 
>> then click Search,"  then no matter how many times I click OK, the 
>> messsage pops back up.  I have to use Task Manager to kill Doxygen to 
>> get rid of the error message.  This problem happens with the wizard, 
>> Doxygen on the command line, and using Eclox (Eclipse Doxygen addon).
>>
>> I've just set up Doxygen in the last week, and I've been limping 
>> along without the dot graphs, but I'd really like to get dot working 
>> with Doxygen (or the other way around).  I know that both dot and 
>> Doxygen work independent of each other.  I've generated a few dot 
>> graphs and I've generated some basic Doxygen documentation. Both dot 
>> and Doxygen are reachable from the path.  I've tried setting the 
>> DOT_PATH variable a few times (with and without quotes, backslash 
>> escapes, etc), and that doesn't seem to help.  I just don't 
>> understand why Doxygen generates
>> this error.
>>
>> I'm running Windows XP SP2, Graphviz 2.8 (for dot), and Doxygen 1.4.6.
>>
>>
>>
>> Also... my RTF output is screwed up. Pasted below is a sample of the 
>> output.
>>
>> Table of Contents
>>
>> Table of contents
>>
>> RTFDocVisitor::visitPre(DocRoot)RTFDocVisitor::visitPost(DocPara)RTFDocVisitor::visit(DocWord)VidiNavRTFDocVisitor::visit(DocWhiteSpace) 
>> RTFDocVisitor::visit(DocWord)SoftwareRTFDocVisitor::visit(DocWhiteSpace) 
>> RTFDocVisitor::visit(DocWord)DevelopmentRTFDocVisitor::visit(DocWhiteSpace) 
>> RTFDocVisitor::visit(DocWord)KitRTFDocVisitor::visit(DocWhiteSpace) 
>> RTFDocVisitor::visit(DocWord)DocumentationRTFDocVisitor::visit(DocWhiteSpace) 
>> RTFDocVisitor::visitPost(DocPara)RTFDocVisitor::visitPost(DocRoot)
>>
>> ~ Marinna
>>
>>
>>
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