Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Why isn't libwireshark.def autogenerated?
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From: "news.gmane.com" <AndreasSander1@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:55:58 +0100
"Gerald Combs" <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in 
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> On 12/19/10 4:49 AM, Andreas wrote:
>
>> When we have an API definition in the header file, this will allow us to
>> add the doxygen documentation of that API at the same point.
>
> Is it possible to generate simple text files with Doxygen? That is, if
> we added an "@api" alias and created the required comment blocks could
> we then generate our .sym and .def files using Doxygen?

I dont think that doyxgen is a tool intended to generate source files. There 
are already other tools like sed, grep, awk that can do the job much better.

But it is a big venue to have the API tag in the header files as well as the 
comments for the doxygen documentation.

--
Andy