[Doxygen-users] \private - not working for external doc blocks

[Monique S. <mon...@ea...>]

Hello, Doxygen users,

In Doxygen 1.8.10, the \private command does not seem to work for functions that are documented external from their source file, via the \fn command. I’ve used the \private command extensively in .c files, but it’s not being honored in external (.dxd) files.

This is for C functions, and I have the EXTRACT_PRIVATE setting set to NO. In the .dxd file, I have separate Doxygen blocks for every function in the .h file that I want *omitted* from the Doxygen output, and after the \fn command, I have the \private command.

Doxygen doesn’t generate function details for these functions (and if I doxygen-search for these functions, they’re correctly not found), but they do show up in the Files list, which is very undesirable. I tried simply not including the .h file in the input, but Doxygen seems to require it to match up the functions in the .dxd file. (That is, if I omit the .h file, I get no output for the functions in the .dxd file.)

Does anyone have any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks,
-Monique