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diff --git a/docs/README b/docs/README index b467d2d..326d278 100644 --- a/docs/README +++ b/docs/README @@ -3,46 +3,81 @@ as a Doxygen configuration file; we turn Doxygen XML output into Sphinx documentation. You can generate HTML documentation using the Makefile if you have make, or using make.bat from Windows. -You need a recent-ish version of doxygen in your PATH: +Documentation Build Steps +------------------------- - http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/download.html#latestsrc +1. You need a recent-ish version of Doxygen in your PATH: -For the Doxygen-to-Sphinx bridge, we rely on a project called Breathe, -by Michael Jones. + http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/download.html#latestsrc -***** You must clone the LEAFLABS VERSION OF THE breathe repository ****** +2. Install breathe, which does Doxygen-to-Sphinx conversion: - ... and then set an environment variable BREATHE_HOME to be able to -build the documentation. Something like this on bash: + Read/write version (for LeafLabs developers): $ git clone git@github.com:leaflabs/breathe.git + + Read-only version (for non-LeafLabs developers): + + $ git clone git://github.com/leaflabs/breathe.git + + After that's done, set an environment variable BREATHE_HOME to + point to where you downloaded it. Something like this on bash: + $ export BREATHE_HOME=/path/to/breathe/repo/ -You can now build the HTML docs with (on Unix): + (You'll want to put this in your shell startup script). + +3. Install Sphinx. + + From source or .egg: + + http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sphinx#downloads + + Via easy_install: $ sudo easy_install -U Sphinx + +4. Before the first time you run Sphinx (and any time the Doxygen + comments in the libmaple source code are changed), you'll need to + rebuild the Doxygen XML output: + + $ cd libmaple/docs/source + $ doxygen + +5. Finally, you can build the documentation: + $ make html -Which will produce Doxygen documentation in doxygen/xml, and HTML -documentation (this is what you want to look at) in build/html. + (Read the Makefile for more targets). -All of the documentation itself lives in source/. The directory -source/_static is for static content like style sheets; -source/_templates contains Sphinx templates (or, it would if we had -any). +Reading and Modifying the Documentation +--------------------------------------- -The docs are written in reStructuredText (reST); it's a Python thing -that they use to produce the docs at python.org (which are beautiful, -if you've never seen them). You can read more about Sphinx here: +The net effect of the above is to produce Doxygen XML output (ignore +this) in libmaple/docs/doxygen/xml, and HTML documentation (this is +what you want) in libmaple/docs/build/html. - http://sphinx.pocoo.org/tutorial.html +Just point your web browser at the file + + libmaple/docs/build/html/index.html -Specific information on documenting C and C++ is available here: +it corresponds to the Sphinx file - http://sphinx.pocoo.org/domains.html + libmaple/docs/source/index.rst + +All of the documentation itself lives in libmaple/docs/source/. The +directory source/_static/ is for static content (like style sheets); +source/_templates/ contains Sphinx templates (or, it would, if we had +any). + +The docs are written in Sphinx's version of reStructuredText (reST); +it's a Python thing that they use to produce the docs at +http://python.org. You can read more about Sphinx here: + + http://sphinx.pocoo.org/tutorial.html -You can view the reST source for any generated page of documentation -by clicking the "Show Source" link in the sidebar. +You can view the source for any generated page of documentation by +clicking the "Show Source" link in the sidebar. -The file source/conf.py is the Sphinx configuration file; you can go -read it for more information about our setup. +The file libmaple/docs/source/conf.py is the Sphinx configuration +file; you can go read it for more information about our setup. |