diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index f8d6158575..6db75f2397 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1129,6 +1129,7 @@ message(STATUS "Ready to parse QMCPACK source tree")
 
 add_subdirectory(external_codes)
 add_subdirectory(src)
+add_subdirectory(doxygen)
 
 if(NOT QMC_BUILD_SANDBOX_ONLY)
   if(NOT QMC_NO_SLOW_CUSTOM_TESTING_COMMANDS)
diff --git a/doxygen/CMakeLists.txt b/doxygen/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bb10608f38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doxygen/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+find_package(Doxygen)
+if(NOT DOXYGEN_FOUND)
+    message(STATUS "The qmcpack_doxygen target for the QMCPACK developer/API "
+        "documentation requires doxygen and (optionally) dot from graphviz."
+    )
+    return()
+endif()
+
+set(DOXYGEN_PROJECT_NAME QMCPACK)
+set(DOXYGEN_FILE_PATTERNS *.h *.cpp *.doc)
+set(DOXYGEN_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}")
+set(DOXYGEN_STRIP_FROM_PATH docs src)
+set(DOXYGEN_IMAGE_PATH
+    ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}
+    ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/doxygen/images
+    "$(DOXYGEN_IMAGE_PATH)"
+)
+set(DOXYGEN_USE_MDFILE_AS_MAINPAGE ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/README.md)
+set(DOXYGEN_TOC_INCLUDE_HEADINGS 0)
+set(DOXYGEN_NUM_PROC_THREADS 0)
+set(DOXYGEN_GENERATE_TREEVIEW YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_TEMPLATE_RELATIONS YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_EXTRACT_ALL YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_EXTRACT_PRIVATE YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_EXTRACT_STATIC YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_SOURCE_BROWSER YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_SHORT_NAMES YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_JAVADOC_AUTOBRIEF YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_DOT_IMAGE_FORMAT svg)
+set(DOXYGEN_INTERACTIVE_SVG YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_DISTRIBUTE_GROUP_DOC YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_INLINE_GROUPED_CLASSES YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_INLINE_SIMPLE_STRUCTS YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_INLINE_SOURCES YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_STRIP_CODE_COMMENTS NO)
+set(DOXYGEN_HIDE_SCOPE_NAMES YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_SHOW_INCLUDE_FILES NO)
+set(DOXYGEN_REFERENCED_BY_RELATION YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_REFERENCES_RELATION YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_VERBATIM_HEADERS NO)
+set(DOXYGEN_TOC_EXPAND YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_MACRO_EXPANSION YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_EXPAND_ONLY_PREDEF YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_SEARCH_INCLUDES NO)
+set(DOXYGEN_PREDEFINED DOXYGEN_SHOULD_SKIP_THIS)
+set(DOXYGEN_DIRECTORY_GRAPH NO)
+set(DOXYGEN_HTML_TIMESTAMP YES)
+set(DOXYGEN_ENUM_VALUES_PER_LINE 1)
+set(DOXYGEN_GENERATE_TAGFILE qmc_doxygen_tags)
+set(DOXYGEN_CALL_GRAPH YES)
+
+doxygen_add_docs(qmcpack_doxygen
+    ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src
+    ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/src/config.h
+    ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/README.md
+    ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/CHANGELOG.md
+    WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}
+)