How to generate UML for C++ code in windows system?

[jin zhang]

I am debugging somebody else's code, it is too hard to read it without any
doc.
Are there any UML generater which can work on windows that I can use?
Please help.

Thank you .

[Peter van Merkerk]

jin zhang wrote:

I am debugging somebody else's code, it is too hard to read it without any
doc.
Are there any UML generater which can work on windows that I can use?

Doxygen (www.doxygen.org) in combination with graphviz
(www.graphviz.org) can generate nice documentation with class and
collaboration graphs from C++ source code.

Also many UML tools have a reverse engineering feature, though
personally I prefer Doxygen for this kind of thing.
--
Peter van Merkerk
peter.van.merke rk(at)dse.nl

[Robby De Smedt]

Peter van Merkerk wrote:

jin zhang wrote:

I am debugging somebody else's code, it is too hard to read it without any doc.
Are there any UML generater which can work on windows that I can use?

Doxygen (www.doxygen.org) in combination with graphviz
(www.graphviz.org) can generate nice documentation with class and
collaboration graphs from C++ source code.

Thanks it is a great tool for generating documentation from my c++ source
files.

[Matt]

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:37:08 +0200, Peter van Merkerk

Doxygen (www.doxygen.org) in combination with graphviz
(www.graphviz.org) can generate nice documentation with class and
collaboratio n graphs from C++ source code.
I will be looking to set this up in the near future. I do not yet
seen any references for setup instructions for such a combination
"doxygen + graphviz". Does anyone have any pointers for such a thing?
If not, I'm hoping it will be easy for me to pick up.

I am hoping to generate overall UML-based class diagrams that describe
my various C++ code bases.

Thanks for any help,
-Matt

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:37:08 +0200, Peter van Merkerk
<me*****@deadsp am.com> wrote:jin zhang wrote:

I am debugging somebody else's code, it is too hard to read it without any
doc.
Are there any UML generater which can work on windows that I can use?

Doxygen (www.doxygen.org) in combination with graphviz
(www.graphviz.org) can generate nice documentation with class and
collaboratio n graphs from C++ source code.

Also many UML tools have a reverse engineering feature, though
personally I prefer Doxygen for this kind of thing.

[Matt]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:03:20 -0600, Matt
<ma**@downwiths pammers-mengland.net> wrote:

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:37:08 +0200, Peter van Merkerk

Doxygen (www.doxygen.org) in combination with graphviz
(www.graphviz.org) can generate nice documentation with class and
collaborati on graphs from C++ source code.

I will be looking to set this up in the near future. I do not yet
seen any references for setup instructions for such a combination
"doxygen + graphviz". Does anyone have any pointers for such a thing?

To answer my own question:

One must install graphviz per their install instructions (I did so on
a WinXP system using the Windows binaries...I wasn't sure whether or
not to put the "thirdparty " stuff in, but I did so right on top of the
graphviz install dirs).

Then one must set the appropriate DOT* variables in the Doxyfile
config file, namely the HAVE_DOT variable. 'dot' or 'dot.exe' is
found in the graphviz distribution. Put dot.exe's path in the system
PATH variable on Windows (alternative, point DOT_PATH to the to this
same path...but I could not get this to work).

After doing all this I was able to make some nice graphs. There are
other Doxyfile config settings/variables that can produce more or less
graphical stuff.

-Matt