DoxyBlocks not generating docs

[Alpha]

I have been trying to use the DoxyBlocks plugin to generate documentation, however, when I press "Extract documentation" it reports:

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Extracting documentation for StringTools.
DoxyBlocks is working, please wait a few moments...
Found existing doxyfile...
Success.
Your documents are in: C:\Lib\StringTools\doxygen\

Done.

but the only file in C:\Lib\StringTools\doxygen\ is doxyfile (no documentation is produced).
If I run doxygen command-line, it works fine (producing html).

Is there a setting I am missing?

(I have doxygen version 1.7.5.1 and Code::Blocks svn r7632 on Windows XP and Windows Vista 32 bit.)

[Derjik]

Hi,

I'm having (exactly) the same issue, and I can't find what I've done wrong...
Doxywizard ran successfully, I've got a valid doxyfile in my doxygen output directory, but Ctrl+Alt+E / DoxyBlocks>Extract Documentation do absolutely nothing.
And it shows the same message than Alpha quoted above...

Thanks by advance for any help o/

[oBFusCATed]

Derjik: What cb version/os are you running?

[Derjik]

oBFusCATed: I'm running C::B 12.11 on Windows 7.
The most intriguing fact is that:
-My doxyfile IS valid (I can extract the documentation _via_ the doxywizard in the Run tab)
-DoxyBlocks seems to find it, but does -strictly- nothing...

Should I try with a nightly build ?

[oBFusCATed]

Should I try with a nightly build ?

There is no nightly newer than 12.11, so no.

[Derjik]

Oh, okay

So, what should I try/check/configure ? As I said, I can't find what I've missed in the configuration


EDIT: I talked with some friends of mine today, and they're experiencing the exact same issue.
Ctrl+Alt+E (or DoxyBlocks>Extract Documentation) creates (or reads) a doxyfile, but does nothing else...
Thx by advance for any further help o/

[oBFusCATed]

Can you provide a simple project that can be used to reproduce the problem?
I'm not using doxygen, so I can't debug the problem directly.

[Derjik]

Here it is.

(okay the code is ridiculously useless, but: [1] everything works fine via DoxyWizard; [2] "Extract Documentation" detects the doxyfile, and... nothing happens.)


Thanks again

EDIT: Gawd...
I just downloaded my (own) zip, extracted it on my desktop (in a new folder, just to test it...), and __NOW__ Ctrl Alt E works... confusing and embarrassing ><
Maybe it only works if my project is on C:, then... (yes, I forgot to say I work in a "data" partition (D:), and my OS+programs are in C:)

EDIT2: Ooookay. Now I extracted the same project in another folder on my D: partition, and DoxyBlocks doesn't extract anything at all.
Temporary conclusion: The "Ctrl + Alt + E" / "DoxyBlocks > Extract Documentation" feature does only work if your project is located on the same partition than... C::B, or Doxygen, I don't know. Maybe it only works in C:, strictly.
I won't transfer my project on C:, because we have good reasons to separate user data from system & programs, but at least I "know" what does precisely not work.

Thank you for your clues on it. Shall I (we?) do a bug report ?
If so, where should we post it ? :x

[oBFusCATed]

Hm, do you have spaces or other special characters in the path on D:?

Unfortunately this sounds like a windows issue and I'm running linux, so I can't help.
You'll have to wait for a windows dev to come up and try to reproduce it and try to fix it.
Or you can try to find the reason yourself, by compiling C::B and using a debugger to debug it

[Derjik]

The project was under a "Mes Documents" (yes, I'm french :3) folder, and when I managed to have it in a path without spaces, DoxyBlocks worked fine.

So you're right, special characters prevent DoxyBlocks from generating docs (but it can still "read" the doxyfile, strangely).

EDIT: I finally managed to rename "Mes Documents" to "Mes_Documents" and everything works fine now
Thanks for the help, anyway

(I think I'll explain the "bug" on the DoxyBlocks thread later)(and try to find the bug origin after finishing the school project I'm working on)

[oBFusCATed]

OK, I was able to reproduce the problem on linux, too.
I'll see if I can get it fixed.

But there is another problem, the doxygen config file is unusable on linux, because the INPUT variable is specified using windows directory separators '\' instead of '/'.
Can you try to replace '\' with '/' in the paths and try to run doxygen on windows to see if it works?

[oBFusCATed]

Anyone willing to test if this patch works: http://cmpt.benbmp.org/codeblocks/patches/doxyblocks.path.spaces.patch ?

[Derjik]

Wow, you're fast :-X

I placed '/' instead of '\' in all my input paths and file locations, and the extraction still works fine on Windows. (and the output is still coherent and conform, including cross-reference links etc.)

Also, I don't really know how (if possible) to patch a C::B plugin on Windows... (but I'm searching, so if I succeed I'll give feedback about your patch )

[oBFusCATed]

In svn and will be available in the next night build.