To build the PDAL documentation yourself, you need to install the following items:
Python dependencies should be installed from PyPI with pip
or easy_install
.
(sudo) pip install sphinx sphinxconfig-bibtex breathe
Note
If you are installing these packages to a system-wide directory, you may need the sudo in front of the pip, though it might be better that instead you use virtual environments instead of installing the packages system-wide.
The PDAL documentation also depends on Doxygen, which can be installed from source or from binaries from the doxygen website. If you are on Max OS X and use homebrew, you can install doxygen with a simple brew install doxygen
.
Latex and pdflatex are used to generate the companion PDF of the website.
For math output, we depend on dvipng to turn Latex output into math PNGs.
Once you have installed all the doc dependencies, you can then build the documentation itself. The doc/
directory in the PDAL source tree contains a Makefile which can be used to build all documentation. For a list of the output formats supported by Sphinx, simply type make
. For example, to build html documentation:
cd doc
make doxygen html
The html docs will be placed in doc/build/html/
. The make doxygen
is necessary to re-generate the API documentation from the source code using Breathe and Sphinx.
Note
For a full build of the cppapi
documentation, you need to make doxygen
to have it build its XML output which is consumed by Breathe before make html
can be issued.
The http://pdal.io website is regenerated from the *-maintenance
branch using travis
. It will be committed by the PDAL-docs
GitHub user and pushed to the https://github.com/PDAL/pdal.github.io repository. The website is then served via GitHub Pages.
Note
The website is regenerated and pushed only on the after_success
travis
call. If the tests aren't passing, the website won't be updated.