Re: C++ and gtk-doc

[Damon Chaplin <damon karuna uklinux net>]

On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 13:20 -0500, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 11:57 +0000, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 03:12 -0500, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > gtk-doc doesn't seem to scan C++ files.  I don't know what C++ will do
> > > to gtk-doc, but it seems to at least try the files with this patch.
> > 
> > gtk-doc is only designed to handle C at present.
> > 
> > It would probably need quite a bit of work to understand all the extra
> > C++ syntax.
> > 
> > I think gtkmm uses doxygen, so you should probably follow them.
> 
> This is for the poppler glib wrapper, which is primarily written in C,
> but links to a  C++ library.  It makes a very small number of C++ calls,
> and thus must be in that language.  gtk-doc seems to parse it alright if
> I use this patch.

I'd take a patch that added an option like "--source-suffixes=c,h,cc".

But I don't really like the idea of just scanning .cc files as well by
default. (What about .C files or .cpp files?)

Damon