Hi,

does anyone know of a nice (and easy to use) program which can
auto-generate a UML diagram from C/C++ source files ?

Thanks

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On Wed, 18 May 2005 06:27:21 -0400, Troels Smit wrote:

> Hi,
>
> does anyone know of a nice (and easy to use) program which can
> auto-generate a UML diagram from C/C++ source files ?
>
> Thanks
>

Doxygen in addition with the DOT tools can make nice source code
documentation including inheritance diagrams, etc. Although configuration
is not that easy.

http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen


Then there is autodia in conjunction with DIA.

from my debian box:

  autodia generates UML diagrams from perl or C++ code
  AutoDia creates UML files for use with dia. It scans your perl or c++
  code, and generates class diagrams in dia's native file format (XML).
  .
  Support for other languages can be provided with plugins

I am confident that ports to other systems exist.

cheers, Marc Cromme

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Rational Rose and other CASE products that advertise "round-trip"
engineering will produce UML from C++ source code.

Even Microsoft's Development Studio in combination with Visio will
generate at least the class entities, but you must manually add the
relationships.

There is a paucity of open source tools for UML diagramming C++ code.
Seems everyone concentrates on Java instead of C++.

Glen

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http://uml.sourceforge.net/index.php


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Besides the previous two solutions presented I've also had luck with:

http://www.sparxsystems.com/

You can evaluate it for free, and it's not too expensive.  I'm not a
UML expert but so far it's met all my needs for creating class,
sequence, activity, etc. diagrams better than MSVC + Visio.

I've only tried creating the class diagrams from source though.  It was
awhile ago and a few versions back, but if I remember right it seemed
to do the job fairly well for me.

HTH,

-Ryan


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In article <316d5fc0.0505172346.23dd4ec6@posting.google.com>, Troels
Smit <troels_smit@hotmail.com> writes

> Hi,
>
> does anyone know of a nice (and easy to use) program which can
> auto-generate a UML diagram from C/C++ source files ?
>
> Thanks
>

See, e.g. entries in:

http://www.objectsbydesign.com/tools/umltools_byCompany.html

-- 
Alec Ross


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Ryan Gallagher wrote:

> Besides the previous two solutions presented I've also had luck with:
>
> http://www.sparxsystems.com/
>
> You can evaluate it for free, and it's not too expensive.  I'm not a
> UML expert but so far it's met all my needs for creating class,
> sequence, activity, etc. diagrams better than MSVC + Visio.
>
> I've only tried creating the class diagrams from source though.  It
> was awhile ago and a few versions back, but if I remember right it
> seemed to do the job fairly well for me.

I can second that. The tool has a few quirks and rough edges, but
compared to Rational Rose, it is refreshingly unobtrusive, and the bang
for the buck is enormous.

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