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I use qdoc for creating code documentation. I can generate my documents from comments, but I need to delete the old generated files before replacing them with new ones. As an illustration, when I execute the command qdoc project.qdocconf, it gives me the error message: "(qdoc) error: Output directory './html' exists but is not empty." How can I tell qdoc to overwrite html directory?

Note:

  • I'm using qdoc 6.5.1

What did I do?

Mohammad Golkar
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  • [Minimal qdocconf file](https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qdoc-minimum-qdocconf.html) defines `outputdir` as `html` but `imagedirs` with `./images`. Since the [documentation](https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/22-qdoc-configuration-generalvariables.html#outputdir) claims that the previous files will be deleted, maybe it is just expecting from you to define `outputdir` w/o dot-slash to overwrite it properly. – dynerp Jun 11 '23 at 12:12
  • @dynerp project.qdocconf:25: (qdoc) error: Output directory 'html' exists but is not empty – Mohammad Golkar Jun 12 '23 at 11:18
  • It seems either it is a environment problem or a configuration issue. I'd say double-check the write permission or create a new minimal example and try on it, also in case of you're working on windows ensure the user name contains only english letters – dynerp Jun 12 '23 at 13:39
  • @dynerp It's work on QDoc 5.15.2. – Mohammad Golkar Jun 12 '23 at 15:35

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