Re: [Doxygen-users] Doxygen and Swift/Kotlin

[Jakob v. B. <jak...@gm...>]

With regards to Swift, maybe this is of interest:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49008780/does-doxygen-headerdoc-supports-swift-4-0 <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49008780/does-doxygen-headerdoc-supports-swift-4-0>

With regards to Kotlin, there is an outstanding feature request:
https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/issues/6629 <https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/issues/6629>

The Doxygen documentation explains pretty well which techniques you can use to make Doxygen understand new languages:
* Either create a pre-parse filter that can translate the language reasonably well into one of the builtin supported languages. The technique is mentioned quite clearly, the details of making it happen are a bit terse, but in the end you’ll get it setup quickly after some fiddling around (I managed to setup a pre-filter written in Python that translates Eagle into C; in other words: you can get quite far)
* Creating a filter has limitations though and only gets you so-far. It you really want full and native support, you will have to implement the relevant flex/bison files to parse the language. This technique is mentioned in the manual, but I have never been able to find more detailed information on this technique, other than that it can be done.

My gut feeling regarding Swift and Kotlin is that they are different enough from supported languages that you probably want to go the flex/bison route. But my expectation is that even if you already know flex/bison very well, it may take quite some effort to figure out how to properly set it up for integration in Doxygen. But maybe someone else is aware of more technical documentation in this direction.

I wish you a lot of wisdom.

Sincerely,
Jakob van Bethlehem


> On 7 Aug 2019, at 23:42, Craig Thompson <cra...@bi...> wrote:
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> Anyone have insight in how to make Doxygen support Swift and Kotlin?
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> Craig Thompson
> Senior Technical Writer
> Big Fish Games
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