<li><a href="#H0014">3.8 Caveats</a>
</ul>
<li><a href="#H0015">4.0 Using Makeheaders To Generate Documentation</a>

<li><a href="#H0016">5.0 Compiling The Makeheaders Program</a>

<li><a href="#H0017">6.0 History</a>

<li><a href="#H0018">6.0 Summary And Conclusion</a>
</ul><a name="H0002"></a>
<h2>1.0 Background</h2>

<p>
A piece of C source code can be one of two things:
a <em>declaration</em> or a <em>definition</em>.
A declaration is source text that gives information to the

and should compile without alteration on most ANSI C compilers
and on most operating systems.
It is known to compile using several variations of GCC for Unix
as well as Cygwin32 and MSVC 5.0 for Win32.
</p>

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<h2>6.0 History</h2>

<p>
The makeheaders program was first written by D. Richard Hipp
(also the original author of 
<a href="https://sqlite.org/">SQLite</a> and
<a href="https://www.fossil-scm.org/">Fossil</a>) in 1993.
Hipp open-sourced the project immediately, but it never caught
on with any other developers and it continued to be used mostly
by Hipp himself for over a decade.  When Hipp was first writing
the Fossil version control system in 2006 and 2007, he used
makeheaders on that project to help simplify the source code.
As the popularity of Fossil increased, the makeheaders
that was incorporated into the Fossil source tree became the
"official" makeheaders implementation.
</p>

<p>
As this paragraph is being composed (2016-11-05), Fossil is the
only project known to Hipp that is still using makeheaders.  On
the other hand, makeheaders has served the Fossil project well and
there are no plans remove it.
</p>

<a name="H0018"></a>
<h2>7.0 Summary And Conclusion</h2>

<p>
The makeheaders program will automatically generate a minimal header file
for each of a set of C source and header files, and will
generate a composite header file for the entire source file suite,
for either internal or external use.
It can also be used as the parser in an automated program