Doxygen documentation - cmake

I recently started using doxygen with clion. I made doxygen create all the htlm files while code compiling using this in the CMAKELIST:
find_package(Doxygen)
if(DOXYGEN_FOUND)
set(BUILD_DOC_DIR "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/docs/output")
if(NOT EXISTS "${BUILD_DOC_DIR}")
file(MAKE_DIRECTORY "${BUILD_DOC_DIR}")
endif()
set(DOXYGEN_IN "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/docs/Doxyfile")
set(DOXYGEN_OUT "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/Doxyfile")
configure_file("${DOXYGEN_IN}" "${DOXYGEN_OUT}" #ONLY)
message("Doxygen build started")
add_custom_target(Doxygen ALL
COMMAND "${DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE}" "${DOXYGEN_OUT}"
WORKING_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}"
COMMENT "Generating API documentation with Doxygen"
VERBATIM)
else(DOXYGEN_FOUND)
message("Doxygen needs to be installed to generate the documentation.")
endif(DOXYGEN_FOUND)
But while i compile the code, doxygen not only created a htlm for my own functions as it actually creates a documentation for every function from clion. Is there a way to make it only create that htlm file for my own coded functions?

Sounds like you may simply exclude some file patterns from being processed by doxygen:
find_package(Doxygen)
if(DOXYGEN_FOUND)
....
set(DOXYGEN_EXCLUDE_PATTERNS */folder_with_clion/* */other_folder/*)
...
endif()

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CMake target dependency to compile protobuf files

I want to build a c++ static lib out of some protobuf definitions with cmake/make.
I made a custom COMMAND to compile the protobuf to c++, and I set it as a PRE_BUILD dependency to my static lib.
project(mylib)
set(PROTO_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/proto_definitions")
file(GLOB PROTO_FILES "${PROTO_PATH}/*.proto")
foreach(PROTO_FILE in ${PROTO_FILES})
string(REGEX REPLACE "[.]proto$" ".pb.cc" OUTPUT_SOURCE ${PROTO_FILE})
list(APPEND OUTPUT_SOURCES ${OUTPUT_SOURCE})
endforeach()
add_custom_command(TARGET ${PROJECT_NAME}
PRE_BUILD
COMMAND protoc --cpp_out=${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/compiled_proto ${PROTO_FILES}
WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
COMMENT "some comment")
add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} STATIC ${OUTPUT_SOURCES})
target_include_directories(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
I get the following error when running cmake:
CMake Error: cannot determine link language for target "mylib"
Regardless of this error, the makefiles are generated, but when I make mylib, it does not trigger any proto compilation
The approach more native to CMake would be to add custom commands with the OUTPUT signature to generate the .cc files, and then use them as sources for the library normally. That way, they CMake will know what they are and how to produce them:
project(mylib)
set(PROTO_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/proto_definitions")
file(GLOB PROTO_FILES "${PROTO_PATH}/*.proto")
foreach(PROTO_FILE in ${PROTO_FILES})
string(REGEX REPLACE "[.]proto$" ".pb.cc" OUTPUT_SOURCE ${PROTO_FILE})
list(APPEND OUTPUT_SOURCES ${OUTPUT_SOURCE})
endforeach()
add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${OUTPUT_SOURCES}
COMMAND protoc --cpp_out=${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/compiled_proto ${PROTO_FILES}
DEPENDS ${PROTO_FILES}
WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
COMMENT "some comment")
add_library(${PROJECT_NAME} STATIC ${OUTPUT_SOURCES})
target_include_directories(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
Done this way, there will be one command which reads all the .proto files and produces all the .cc files — which means that if any of the .proto file changes, all the .cc files will be re-generated. I am not familiar with Protobuffers so I cannot know whether that's sane or not. If they are independent, it would be better to introduce one add_custom_command for each output file.
Also, given the arguments you're passing to protocc, you might have to modify the paths in OUTPUT_SOURCES to correctly point to the generated files.
Also note that CMake comes with a FindProtobuf module which defines a protobuf_generate_cpp() command, so you might want to use that instead of hand-coding the Protobuf support.
Comment for the answer above: There is no in in cmake foreach, which spend me some time to solve it.
After studying his answer(very thanks!), I summarized a method that works for me, which has the following characteristics:
Proto dir and Output dir can be different
Generate grpc_output
Create a custom_command for each proto
My project strcuture is:
hwpb/ (a library for super project)
cpp/
hwpb/ (store *.pb.cc, *.pb.h)
CMakeLists.txt
proto/ (store protos)
go/ (and other languages, not mentioned here)
And this is my CMakeListx.txt:
set(PROTO_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../proto")
set(OUTPUT_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/hwpb")
file(GLOB PROTO_FILES "${PROTO_DIR}/*.proto")
foreach(PROTO_FILE ${PROTO_FILES})
get_filename_component (FILENAME ${PROTO_FILE} NAME_WLE)
set(PROTO_SRC "${OUTPUT_DIR}/${FILENAME}.pb.cc")
set(PROTO_HDR "${OUTPUT_DIR}/${FILENAME}.pb.h")
set(GRPC_SRC "${OUTPUT_DIR}/${FILENAME}.grpc.pb.cc")
set(GRPC_HDR "${OUTPUT_DIR}/${FILENAME}.grpc.pb.h")
add_custom_command(
OUTPUT "${PROTO_SRC}" "${PROTO_HDR}" "${GRPC_SRC}" "${GRPC_HDR}"
COMMAND ${_PROTOBUF_PROTOC}
ARGS --plugin=protoc-gen-grpc=${_GRPC_CPP_PLUGIN_EXECUTABLE}
--cpp_out="${OUTPUT_DIR}" --grpc_out="${OUTPUT_DIR}"
-I"${PROTO_DIR}" "${PROTO_FILE}"
DEPENDS ${PROTO_FILE}
)
list(APPEND OUTPUT_SOURCES ${PROTO_SRC} ${GRPC_HDR})
endforeach()
add_library(hwpb ${OUTPUT_SOURCES})
target_link_libraries(hwpb ${_GRPC_GRPCPP_UNSECURE} ${_PROTOBUF_LIBPROTOBUF})
target_include_directories(hwpb PUBLIC ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR})

CMAKE custom compiler not overwriting

In a CMAKE project, I need to define a custom command for a file type (.osl) which is compiled by a tool (oslc) which compiles to another file type (.oso)
I managed to do it by a function that I can run on a list of source files:
find_program(OSLC_EXECUTABLE oslc)
function(compile_osl out_var)
set(result)
foreach(osl_f ${ARGN})
file(RELATIVE_PATH osl_f_base ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} ${osl_f})
string(REGEX REPLACE "\\.osl$" ".oso" oso_f ${osl_f_base})
set(oso_f "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${oso_f}")
get_filename_component(oso_f_dir ${oso_f} DIRECTORY)
file(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${oso_f_dir})
add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${oso_f}
COMMAND ${OSLC_EXECUTABLE} ${osl_f} -o ${oso_f}
DEPENDS ${osl_f}
WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
COMMENT "Creating compiled OSL file ${oso_f}"
VERBATIM
)
list(APPEND result ${oso_f})
endforeach()
set(${out_var} "${result}" PARENT_SCOPE)
endfunction()
Thanks to the DEPENDS directive, the compiler is only run if the sources are newer than the output files. However, the compiler does not overwrite output files, so it does not work.
Deleting with file(REMOVE ...) just before the custom command does not work, as it deletes all files, not only the ones requiring recompilation. Also, it deletes at cmake execution, not at make time.
I could maybe define another custom command with "rm" but this not cross platform (I would need to add specific lines for Windows, which I do not like).
Any idea?
Thanks!

Build doxygen from CMake script

I found on the Web a sample cmake file and put it in the /doc subdirectory of my project, where the file myproject.doxgen is also located, containing Doxygen configuration.
I've tested that running doxygen.exe myproject.doxygen produces valid output. I only need to build this into the CMake process. So /doc/CMakeLists.txt is:
find_package(Doxygen)
option(BUILD_DOCUMENTATION "Create and install the HTML based API
documentation (requires Doxygen)" ${DOXYGEN_FOUND})
if(BUILD_DOCUMENTATION)
if(NOT DOXYGEN_FOUND)
message(FATAL_ERROR "Doxygen is needed to build the documentation.")
endif()
set(doxyfile_in ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../doc/myproject.doxygen)
set(doxyfile ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/doxyfile)
configure_file(${doxyfile_in} ${doxyfile} #ONLY)
message("Doxygen build started.")
add_custom_target(doc
COMMAND ${DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE} ${doxyfile_in}
WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/doc
COMMENT "Generating API documentation with Doxygen"
VERBATIM)
# install(DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/html DESTINATION share/doc)
endif()
It doesn't work for me, it only copies the original config file into /build/my/project/doc/ and does nothing more.
What I want is to generate the doxygen documentation during my builds; ideally, only when building the Release configuration.
The way the CMake file you've shown is set up, it creates a target called doc; building that target (such as running make doc) generates the doxymentation. The target is not part of make all (or equivalent); to make it such, add ALL into the custom target creation:
add_custom_target(
doc ALL
COMMAND #... everything else as before
)
If you want to limit this target to only build in a particular configuration (as you've mentioned in comments), you can use generator expressions:
add_custom_target(
doc ALL
COMMAND $<$<CONFIG:Release>:${DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE} ${doxyfile_in}>
WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/doc
COMMENT "Generating API documentation with Doxygen"
VERBATIM
)
It might happen that some CMake generators do not cope well with an empty COMMAND. With this in mind, the following should be fail-safe:
add_custom_target(
doc ALL
COMMAND
$<$<CONFIG:Release>:${DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE} ${doxyfile_in}>
$<$<NOT:$<CONFIG:Release>>:${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E echo "Only done in Release builds">
WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/doc
COMMENT "Generating API documentation with Doxygen"
VERBATIM
)

cmake does not copy file in custom command

I want to copy qml files from source directory to build directory. Following script works fine only first time. When I change any of the *.qml files and run make, they are not copied to build folder, they are not updated. What am I doing wrong?
file(GLOB_RECURSE SOURCES *.cpp)
file(GLOB_RECURSE QMLS *.qml)
add_library(MyLib SHARED ${SOURCES} ${QMLS})
foreach(QmlFile ${QMLS})
add_custom_command(TARGET MyLib POST_BUILD
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different
${QmlFile} $<TARGET_FILE_DIR:MyLib>)
endforeach()
While Angew's answer is good, it is possible to eliminate usage of additional target. For doing this, add_library call should use copied .qml files (instead of original ones, like in the script in the question post):
# This part is same as in Angew's answer
set(copiedQmls "")
foreach(QmlFile ${QMLS})
get_filename_component(nam ${QmlFile} NAME)
add_custom_command(
OUTPUT ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${nam}
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different ${QmlFile} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
DEPENDS ${QmlFile}
COMMENT "Copying ${QmlFile}"
VERBATIM
)
list(APPEND copiedQmls ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${nam})
endforeach()
# But instead of creating new target, we reuse library one.
add_library(MyLib SHARED ${SOURCES} ${copiedQmls})
When library target is built, it triggers non-sources files in add_library call to be updated (if there is corresponded add_custom_command call), but updating non-source files doesn't force library file to be rebuilt. This is why your original code doesn't work as expected.
Note, because .qml files are not recognized by CMake as sources, you doesn't need to set GENERATED property for them, as stated here.
Your are using the TARGET signature of add_custom_command, which means the commands are executed as part of building the TARGET. In your case, POST_BUILD, which means the commands will be run after the build of MyLib finishes. If MyLib is up to date and does not need to be re-built, the commands will not run.
You might want to use the output-generating signature (OUTPUT) instead. Something like this:
set(copiedQmls "")
foreach(QmlFile ${QMLS})
get_filename_component(nam ${QmlFile} NAME)
add_custom_command(
OUTPUT ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${nam}
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different ${QmlFile} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
DEPENDS ${QmlFile}
COMMENT "Copying ${QmlFile}"
VERBATIM
)
list(APPEND copiedQmls ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${nam})
endforeach()
add_custom_target(
CopyQMLs ALL
DEPENDS ${copiedQmls}
)
Note that unfortunately, the OUTPUT argument of add_custom_command does not support generator expressions, so $<TARGET_FILE_DIR> cannot be used there. I used ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR} in the example above, you might need to customise this to suit your needs. ${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR} can be used to specify the per-configuration directory for multiconfiguration generators.
Note the presence of the additional custom target in my code above. That's necessary, because CMake will only execute an output-producing custom command if something depends on that output. The custom command does that, by listing the outputs in its DEPENDS section.

CMP0002 error when compiling different subproject with same target

I've many sub-folders
home
|
|-library1
|-library2
|
|-libraryn
Every subfolder contains a complete library that can compile by itself (every library has a different mantainer). Until now it works correctly and I compile them using a script.
Now I need to create another library, that depends on existing one. In order to do so, I've created a CMakeLists.txt under home folder, using add_subdirectory command that allows me to compile all libraries.
I've something like
cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.8)
add_subdirectory(library1)
add_subdirectory(library2)
...
add_subdirectory(libraryn)
When I try to execute cmake I obtain following error for various libraries:
CMake Error at libraryY/CMakeLists.txt:63 (add_custom_target):
add_custom_target cannot create target "doc" because another target with
the same name already exists. The existing target is a custom target
created in source directory
"/path/to/libraryX". See
documentation for policy CMP0002 for more details.
This happens because in every library we create a doc target in order to compile the Doxygen documentation of the library itself. It works fine when libraryes are compiled one by one, but with the master CMakeLists.txt it seems that I cannot do it.
# Create doc target for doxygen documentation compilation.
find_package (Doxygen)
if (DOXYGEN_FOUND)
set (Doxygen_Dir ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/export/${Library_Version}/doc)
# Copy images folder
file (GLOB IMAGES_SRC "images/*")
file (COPY ${IMAGES_SRC} DESTINATION ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/images)
configure_file (${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/Doxyfile ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/Doxyfile #ONLY)
add_custom_target (doc
${DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/Doxyfile
WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
COMMENT "Generating doxygen documentation" VERBATIM
)
else (DOXYGEN_FOUND)
message (STATUS "Doxygen must be installed in order to compile doc")
endif (DOXYGEN_FOUND)
Is there a way to compile these project at once without modify this target?
If you don't want to modify anything so you can build all this projects as subprojects, then you can use ExternalProject_Add to build and install dependencies.
option
Alternatively you can use option command to exclude doc target from build:
# Foo/CMakeLists.txt
option(FOO_BUILD_DOCS "Build doc target for Foo project" OFF)
# ...
if(DOXYGEN_FOUND AND FOO_BUILD_DOCS)
add_custom_target(doc ...)
endif()
# Boo/CMakeLists.txt
option(BOO_BUILD_DOCS "Build doc target for Boo project" OFF)
# ...
if(DOXYGEN_FOUND AND BOO_BUILD_DOCS)
add_custom_target(doc ...)
endif()
if (NOT (TARGET DOCUMENTATION))
add_custom_target(DOCUMENTATION COMMENT "workaround for multi-dependencies project")
add_dependencies(DOCUMENTATION DOCUMENTATION_${PROJECT_NAME})
endif()