ctoohtml

convert c to html,
since 1995

Early versions of this software from, Andrew H. Fagg were released around 1995. At this time, it was already able to produce usage-to-definition links and definitions lists. This feature was achieved with simple perl scripts and an external software, ctags.

Important note :
At that time, Andrew, was a code addict. A terrible disease that is still ravaging many, especially among computer science students. When I asked him on what he thinks now about what he have done at this time he told me that :

"ctoohtml was born in the bowels of the Hedco
Neuroscience Building at the University of Southern California

at a time when Andrew Fagg should have instead been working on his dissertation.".

Listen to the advice of a repented. If I can also give an advice, I would say, keep away from Perl, its the worst.

There is now plenty of code source presentation tools for C/C++, and it was time for ctoohtml to have a new release that provides some y2k features :

new
new
new
new

code source colourization,
caller reference list
up to date CLI interface
0 install process

index file list
references sorted
page customization
a lot of links

As an example, you can quikly obtain this result presented with rings code demo with this shell command :

./ctoohtml -v1 \
-u"../index.html" -U "To rings Doc++"\
-O "Emmanuel Azencot" \
-P "Ring containers source code" \
-B'Hosted by the courtesy of   <a href="http://www.espace-gratuit.org/" target="_blank" title="Hebergeur Gratuit"><img src="http://www.espace-gratuit.org/pub/espace-gratuit.org_userbar.gif" alt="Hebergeur Gratuit" border="0" height="20" width="350"></a>' \ -d doc++/html \*.c *.h excp/*.[ch]

To quickly obtain a resulkt on your own code, just download the script :

wget http://machinman.net/code/ctoohtml/ctoohtml chmod a+x./ctoohtml

in your working directory and run :

./ctoohtml-v1 $(find . -name '*.[ch]')

That it ! Enjoy browsing in ./htm directory.

Later you can move it to /usr/bin to make it system width. You can also download an little tar.gz that will install for you the man page and the script.

License

Manual

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History

Others products in the same area :

cpp2html "Paste your C++ code into the box below and press the Convert button." online service available (JavaScript).
DOC++ "DOC++ is a documentation system for C, C++, IDL and Java generating (...) HTML output (...). The documentation is extracted directly from (...) source files (...).". Nothing new released since 2002, but most distros support it. I use it for rings documentation.
doxygen : "Source code documentation generator tool", you should check this one.
Converters to and from HTML - section - "Programming Languages"

machinman, Wed Nov 18 23:22:42 CET 2009

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