DoxyS Alternatives

DoxyS is described as 'Code documentation tool for C++/C. DoxyS strives to yield a very professional looking output, presenting the the code in a structured easy to navigate set of HTML pages. Easy to use: Just navigate to the root of your code directory and type doxys' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to DoxyS for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and .NET Framework apps. The best DoxyS alternative is Doxygen, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like DoxyS are Slate API Docs Generator, Sandcastle, NDoc and phpDocumentor 2.

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  1. Doxygen icon
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    Doxygen is a tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources, as well as other popular programming languages like C, Objective-C, C#, PHP, Java, Python, IDL (CORBA, Microsoft, and UNO/OpenOffice flavors), Fortran, VHDL, Tcl, and to some extent D.

    36 Doxygen alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
  2. Sandcastle icon
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    Sandcastle produces accurate, MSDN style, comprehensive documentation by reflecting over the source assemblies and optionally integrating XML Documentation Comments. Sandcastle has the following key features:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • .NET Framework
     
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    NDoc generates class library documentation from .NET assemblies and the XML documentation files generated by the C# compiler (or with an add-on tool for VB.NET).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • .NET Framework
     
  4. PHP documentation generator based on docblock parsing.

    phpDocumentor 2, result of the merge between the old phpDocumentor and DocBlox , sometimes referred to as phpdoc or phpdocu, is the current standard auto-documentation tool for the php la.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. CppDoc icon
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    CppDoc generates HTML documentation for C++ classes, based on your source code and special comments embedded within it. It can produce output that is very similar to the output of Javadoc, and it supports Javadoc tags such as @see, @return , etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Natural Docs icon
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    Natural Docs is an open-source documentation generator for multiple programming languages. You document your code in a natural syntax that reads like plain English. Natural Docs then scans your code and builds high-quality HTML documentation from it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Perl
     
  7.  1 like

    Javadoc is a tool from Sun Microsystems for generating API documentation in HTML format from doc comments in source code.

    18 Javadoc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8.  Like

    EDoC++ is a C++ source analysis tool designed to identify problems associated with the use of exceptions in C++ code. Additionally EDoC++ can be used to generate detailed documentation

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Doc-O-Matic is a software source code documentation and Help authoring tool. It takes source code and comments, adds conceptual topics and external input and produces documentation from it. With its single-source approach it generates many different kinds of output from a single...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
     
  10. LuaDoc icon
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    Documentation Generator Tool for the Lua language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  11. Asciidoclet is a Javadoc Doclet based on Asciidoctor that lets you write Javadoc in the AsciiDoc syntax.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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