Running doxygen command on windows

[Garrett Seepersad]

I was trying to compile Doxygen on my windows machine and I have installed Doxygen, jinja2 and Pygments . The following is the error message I received after running the command below. Any suggestions on how to resolve the issue?

Command : cmake --build build/doc --target GenerateDocs

AzureAD+GS@DESKTOP-JMINGW64 ~/Documents/GIT/ModernCppStarter (feature/architecture_drawing)
$ cmake --build build/doc --target GenerateDocs
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 16.8.2+25e4d540b for .NET Framework
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Checking File Globs
CUSTOMBUILD : warning : libgs not found [C:\Users\GS\Documents\GIT\ModernCppStarter\build\doc\GenerateDocs.vcxproj]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\GS\Documents\GIT\ModernCppStarter\build\doc_deps\mcss-src\documentation\doxygen.py", line 3857, in
subprocess.run(["doxygen", doxyfile], cwd=os.path.dirname(doxyfile), check=True)
File "C:\Python38\lib\subprocess.py", line 489, in run
with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
File "C:\Python38\lib\subprocess.py", line 854, in init
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File "C:\Python38\lib\subprocess.py", line 1307, in _execute_child
hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v160\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(238,5): error MSB8066: Custom build for 'C:\Users\GS\Documents\GIT\ModernCppStarter\build\doc\CMakeFiles\5d6b58ea6af2e68a3fc47579611072b8\GenerateDocs.rule' exited with code 1. [C:\Users\GS\Documents\GIT\ModernCppStarter\build\doc\GenerateDocs.vcxproj]

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[Lars Melchior]

Hm unfortunately I don't have Windows, so I can't reproduce the issue, but have you installed Doxygen and necessary python dependencies?

usually,

pip3 install jinja2 Pygments

but as the error says libgs not found, perhaps also

pip3 install libgs

would work.

[Garrett Seepersad]

Tried, but libgs had some older version requirements :(

Unfortunately don't have the time to look further into it. I am okay with compiling on Linux.

Thanks for creating the boiler-plate.... it's a life saver