[Doxygen-users] Documenting an 3rd party SDK

[Yves P. <ypo...@mi...>]

Hi everybody.

I would like to use Doxygen to document a 3rd party SDK. The SDK is being
updated about every 2 weeks by the company. All I have are the *.lib, the *.h in
the include directory and some plugin examples (the SDK is for developing
plugins for a 3D animation package) as complete Visual C++ projects with source
and all. The include files contains about no documentation meaning no
documentations for classes or members or whatever. Obviously, I don't want to
add the documentation inside the header files since they will change regularly.
I would like to have Doxigen combine documentation for the classes and members
and all that from some external independent documentation files. Anyone have any
suggestion as to how to accomplish that?

I was thinking of writing some fake implementation files that would parallel
each header files in which I would add the documentation. I can see how to
document member functions using this trick but how could I document member
variables?

Is there any other easier way to do that?

What about using tag files for this?

Do I misunderstand the use of tag files?

Yves Poissant