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

[Emil M. <mx...@se...>]

You probably didn't have set the PATH environment variable, and the 
installer obviously did'n set it too.
There are many tools which path must be added to the PATH variable (e.g. 
Java Runtime Environment :), etc.), installers mostly didn't do it, 
although it can be done modifying win registry some way (they probably 
prefer not breaking user environment and leave the path modification on 
the user).
The symbolic link into %windir%\system32 is also ok, the path 
%windir%\system32 is (should be) in the path.
(you can see your PATH configuration running "path" from command line)

The next errors, I don't have any experience with dot, but can be, that 
more utilities than "dot.exe" itself are needed, and the link into 
%windir%\system32 solves only "dot.exe", but maybe another tools (called 
from dot.exe) are not found.

I would try to set the path to include the directory where you installed 
the tools (where dot.exe etc. is).
(the PATH environment variable can be altered via This 
Computer\Properties, tab Advanced, button Environment Variables, and 
*append* the PATH for all users (system) or for your user only)



Marinna Lee wrote:

> Bah.  I have the basic GNU Unix tools installed on my Windows machine.
> I created a symbolic link to dot.exe in my C:\Winsows\System32
> directory, and Windows finally found dot.  (Which is really dumb.)
> 
> I started to get a lot of error messages from Doxygen.  Things like .eps
> files don't exist for all my class files (I'm generating HTML and PDF
> via LaTeX).  Then I started getting "The parameter is incorrect." error
> windows.  When it finally finishes, there's no dot generated images in
> my PDF or HTML directory.  There are not .dot files in the HTML
> directory, but there are still .md5 files.  In the PDF directory, there
> are both .dot and .md5 files.  Ugh.
> 
> ~ Marinna
>