Re: Source code: class diagram generator

Awesome stuff! I'm trying out Doxygen+Graphviz and it's been running for a
couple of hours.

Thank you gents for your help.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 03:21 Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>
wrote:

> Am 2025-10-02 05:25, schrieb Alan Somers:
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM Maku Bex <zagazaw2004@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is there a tool or application(s) that automatically generates a class
> diagram from source code?
>
> Google search suggests rather inefficient ways to do it and mostly manual
> labor that would take weeks to complete. I tried AI chats and they pretty
> much suggested the same methods. Basically, using VScode with a UML
> extension and manually telling it to add each class and link it....yikes! I
> also looked into the build systems such as GN, bazel, make, and search for
> any packages like rust's crates, ruby gems, npm, etc. I hope I'm not
> wasting my time and looking for a unicorn.
>
> Best,
>
>
>  I think that Doxygen can do it for C and C++.  But preprocessor macros
> can easily confuse Doxygen, so the results aren't perfect.
>
> To get an idea what Doxygen can do with the FreeBSD code, see:
>
>     https://www.leidinger.net/FreeBSD/dox/
>
>
> Bye,
> Alexander.
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