# Install standardese with Homebrew

Next-gen documentation generator for C++. Version 0.5.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-13.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:standardese
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install standardese
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:standardese
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.5.2
- **Source summary:** Next-gen documentation generator for C++
- **Homepage:** <https://standardese.github.io>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/standardese/standardese>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-13T17:31:48+09:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- standardese (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.5.2
## Project history and usage

standardese is a C++ documentation generator positioned by its maintainers as a next-generation Doxygen-style tool. It combines a libclang-backed library with a command-line program for generating documentation from C++ headers.

### Project history

The project describes itself as a library and command-line tool: the library parses C++ code with libclang, and the tool generates output such as Markdown and HTML. Its README emphasizes documentation in a style close to the C++ standard, including section commands such as effects, requires, returns, and throws.

### Adoption history

Official installation notes recommend a distribution package when available, with conda-forge packages for Windows, Linux, and macOS, Docker images, and source builds as alternatives. The GitHub release list records a 0.4.0 stabilization effort and later 0.5.x releases.

### How it is used

The basic invocation is `standardese [options] inputs`, where inputs may be files or directories. The documentation notes that users should normally pass header files and may provide configuration options on the command line or in an INI-style config file.

### Why package nerds care

Package maintainers care about standardese because C++ documentation generators often have heavy parser and compiler dependencies. Its packaging story is about making a libclang-based CLI reproducible across package managers, Docker, and source builds.

### Timeline

- 2020: Version 0.4.0 is described as the first stable release in a while after rewrites.
- 2020: Version 0.5.0 adds command-line and comment parsing options and requires a C++17 compiler.
- 2021: Version 0.5.2 is marked as the latest GitHub release on the official repository.

### Related projects

- standardese is explicitly compared with Doxygen and depends on libclang for C++ parsing; its installation notes also mention conda-forge and Docker packaging.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/standardese/standardese README: describes the project, libclang parsing, command-line usage, installation, and config format.>
- <https://github.com/standardese/standardese/releases: official release list and notes for 0.4.x and 0.5.x.>
- <https://standardese.github.io/: official documentation overview.>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/standardese.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/standardese.yml)


## Sources

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