I will say that you are right in that this is a confusing mess and the directions were not at all clear to me as a non-Doxygen user! I don't think the problem is Windows...it is the limitations and capabilities of the Perl-filter?

Let's back up a bit...You are asking about Doxygen, but what you want is listing of function/method/subroutine(s) in a bunch of Perl modules which don't already have any documentation about these things.

I'm not sure that Doxygen will do what you want. Maybe there is another way to do it? I am hoping some other Monks can enlighten us. Perl is an amazingly introspective language and there may be a way to do what you want in a different way.

I ran doxygen-filter-perl on a simple .pl file. It looks like the goal of this thing is to produce "C/C++" pseudo statements that the Doxygen engine can then parse. I didn't install the complete (and apparently separate Doxygen program).

There is some guess-work here, but it looks like in the best case this thing will run your code and log the functions it calls? That's a different question than what are all of the functions in the source code (may be more than are called).

I have my doubts that this thing or anything for that matter can produce something as clear as a well written C declaration from Perl code - and even that might not be all that clear if all you have are the types and names.

I mean you may have to get down to having to manually write text in the form of comments about what each function does, expects and returns. Entropy is working in the wrong direction here. Perl - especially poorly written Perl - can be very cryptic even to a human versed in the art.

Example: "use" becomes "#include":

C:\TEMP>doxygen-filter-perl wxdata.pl
/** @file wxdata.pl
@version 1.00
*/
#include "HTTP/Request/Common.pm"
#include "LWP/UserAgent.pm"
#include "constant.pm"
#include "constant.pm"
#include "constant.pm"
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