macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install doxygenlocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install doxygenMacPorts ports tree · textproc/doxygen/Portfile · source: api.github.com
brew
Install doxygen with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget, zypper
Generate documentation for several programming languages. Version 1.17.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-26.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add doxygenAlpine Linux edge package indexes · doxygen · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install doxygenDebian stable package indexes · doxygen · source: deb.debian.org
Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install doxygenFedora Rawhide package metadata · doxygen · source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#doxygennixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/do/doxygen/package.nix · source: api.github.com
Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S doxygenArch Linux sync databases · doxygen · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install doxygenopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · doxygen · source: download.opensuse.org
Windows
Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install main/doxygenScoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/doxygen.json · source: api.github.com
Windows Package Managerverified · 92%
winget install --id DimitriVanHeesch.Doxygen -eWindows Package Manager source index · DimitriVanHeesch.Doxygen · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com
overview
Package summary
Generate documentation for several programming languages
Project links
Commands and aliases
- doxygen
history
Project history and usage
Doxygen is a long-running source-code documentation generator for C++, C, Objective-C, C#, PHP, Java, Python, IDL, Fortran, D, VHDL, and related documentation workflows. Its own README calls it the de facto standard for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources.
Project history
Doxygen was created and is still associated with Dimitri van Heesch. The official README describes the tool's core bargain: generate online and offline reference documentation from annotated source, optionally analyze undocumented code structure, and also serve as a normal documentation system for manuals and websites.
The official changelog preserves a long release series reaching back through 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3-era releases and continuing into the 1.17 series. The current website banner lists Doxygen 1.17.0 as available with a release date of 30 April 2026.
A notable infrastructure milestone came in May 2013, when the README says Doxygen moved from Subversion to Git hosted at GitHub. The manual and homepage are themselves generated with Doxygen, making the project one of the clearest examples of a documentation tool dogfooding its own output.
Adoption history
Doxygen's adoption tracks the rise of generated API documentation in C and C++ projects. The homepage describes it as widely used in software development, and the README states that it is the de facto standard for C++ source documentation while supporting many other programming and hardware-description languages.
The tool became a standard package across Unix-like systems and developer environments because it sits at the intersection of source annotations, HTML output, LaTeX/PDF manuals, man pages, XML, DocBook, diagrams, and cross-referenced source browsing. It is the sort of package that appears both in developer workstations and in build documentation jobs.
How it is used
A typical project runs doxygen -g to create a Doxyfile, edits configuration tags, then runs doxygen with that configuration. The manual says Doxygen can create HTML, LaTeX/PDF, RTF, XML, Unix man page, and DocBook output and can scan source trees recursively.
Doxygen is also used for code archaeology: with extraction and source-browser options, teams can generate structure views and cross references even for code that was not originally written with full Doxygen comments.
Why package nerds care
For package maintainers, Doxygen is not just another CLI; it is a build-time documentation dependency with optional Graphviz integration, LaTeX/PDF output implications, GUI tooling through Doxywizard, and a large ecosystem of filters and extensions. Version skew can affect generated docs, warning behavior, Markdown handling, language parsers, and reproducible documentation output.
Doxygen also represents a durable packaging pattern: a single cross-platform C++ tool with official binaries, source releases, a generated manual, and broad downstream packaging across Homebrew, Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Nix, MacPorts, Alpine, Scoop, winget, and openSUSE.
Timeline
- 1990s: Doxygen begins its long 1.x release history, with old changelog entries preserved for early 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 releases.
- 2013: Source code management moved from Subversion to Git hosted at GitHub.
- 2024: 1.11.0 release series added modern Markdown-related support such as GitHub-style alerts.
- 2026: 1.17.0 announced on the official site with a 30 April 2026 release date.
Related projects
- Doxygen is often paired with Graphviz for generated diagrams and with LaTeX tooling for PDF output. Its official extensions page lists filters and related tools for additional languages and diagram formats, while Doxywizard is the graphical frontend documented in the manual.
Sources
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/doxygen/doxygen/master/README.md - official README for purpose, supported languages, output formats, and the May 2013 GitHub migration.
- https://www.doxygen.nl/ - official homepage for current positioning and latest release banner.
- https://www.doxygen.nl/manual/starting.html - official getting-started documentation for Doxyfile creation and common usage.
- https://www.doxygen.nl/manual/config.html - official configuration documentation for Doxyfile format.
- https://www.doxygen.nl/manual/changelog.html - official changelog for the long 1.x release series.
- https://www.doxygen.nl/helpers.html - official extensions page for related filters and companion tools.
- https://api.github.com/repos/doxygen/doxygen - official GitHub repository metadata.
security posture
Risk level: yellow
generalized runtime or code generation signal.
Risk classifier
yellow risk · medium confidence · runtime
Why
- generalized runtime or code generation signal
Signals
- text:programming language
Install behavior
- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
- Installs with 2 runtime dependencies.
- Build metadata lists 2 build dependencies.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
Doxyfile- Windows
Doxyfile
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
doxygen | cli | global executable |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-07-08
manager version1.17.0
manager updated2026-06-26
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
- infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.doxygen.nl/none confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:doxygen |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.17.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/doxygen |
| Homepage | https://www.doxygen.nl/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen |
| Upstream docs | https://www.doxygen.nl/manual/index.html |
| License | GPL-2.0-only |
| Source archive | https://doxygen.nl/files/doxygen-1.17.0.src.tar.gz |
| Last updated | 2026-06-26T20:03:11-04:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Dependencies | fmt, spdlog |
| Build dependencies | bison, cmake |
| Uses from macOS | sqlite |
| Bottle | available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
registry facts
Source database details
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | doxygen |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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source database matches
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Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Debian apt95%
doxygen 1.9.8+ds-2.1
Generate documentation from source code
sudo apt install doxygen- Section: devel
- Architecture: amd64
- 9 dependencies
- 1 provides
- 4 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Doxygen
Debian apt95%
doxygen-doc 1.9.8+ds-2.1
Documentation for doxygen
sudo apt install doxygen-doc- Section: doc
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: doxygen
- 1 provides
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Doxygen
Debian apt95%
doxygen-doxyparse 1.9.8+ds-2.1
Multi-language source code parser based on doxygen
sudo apt install doxygen-doxyparse- Section: devel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: doxygen
- 8 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Doxygen
Debian apt95%
doxygen-gui 1.9.8+ds-2.1
GUI configuration tool for doxygen
sudo apt install doxygen-gui- Section: devel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: doxygen
- 9 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Doxygen
Debian apt95%
doxygen-latex 1.9.8+ds-2.1
Generate LaTeX documentation from source code
sudo apt install doxygen-latex- Section: devel
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: doxygen
- 9 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Doxygen
Nix95%
doxygen
nix profile install nixpkgs#doxygen- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Doxygen
Ubuntu apt95%
doxygen 1.9.8+ds-2build5
Generate documentation from source code
sudo apt install doxygen- Section: universe/devel
- Architecture: amd64
- 9 dependencies
- 1 provides
- 4 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Doxygen
Ubuntu apt95%
doxygen-doc 1.9.8+ds-2build5
Documentation for doxygen
sudo apt install doxygen-doc- Section: universe/doc
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: doxygen
- 1 provides
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Doxygen
Ubuntu apt95%
doxygen-doxyparse 1.9.8+ds-2build5
Multi-language source code parser based on doxygen
sudo apt install doxygen-doxyparse- Section: universe/devel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: doxygen
- 8 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Doxygen
Ubuntu apt95%
doxygen-gui 1.9.8+ds-2build5
GUI configuration tool for doxygen
sudo apt install doxygen-gui- Section: universe/devel
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: doxygen
- 9 dependencies
- 1 optional deps
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Doxygen
Ubuntu apt95%
doxygen-latex 1.9.8+ds-2build5
Generate LaTeX documentation from source code
sudo apt install doxygen-latex- Section: universe/devel
- Architecture: all
- Source Package: doxygen
- 9 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Doxygen
apk95%
doxygen 1.17.0-r0
Documentation system for C++, C, Java, IDL and PHP
sudo apk add doxygen- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: doxygen
- 1 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Doxygen
apk95%
doxygen-doc 1.17.0-r0
Documentation system for C++, C, Java, IDL and PHP (documentation)
sudo apk add doxygen-doc- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: doxygen
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Doxygen
dnf95%
doxygen 1.17.0-1.fc45
A documentation system for C/C++
sudo dnf install doxygen- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: doxygen
- 15 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Doxygen
dnf95%
doxygen-doxywizard 1.17.0-1.fc45
A GUI for creating and editing configuration files
sudo dnf install doxygen-doxywizard- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: doxygen
- 10 dependencies
- 2 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Doxygen
dnf95%
doxygen-latex 1.17.0-1.fc45
Support for producing latex/pdf output from doxygen
sudo dnf install doxygen-latex- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: noarch
- Source Package: doxygen
- 7 dependencies
- 1 provides
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Doxygen
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