******************************
Building documentation locally
******************************
The documentation is available online at `doc.tzalpha.net <http://doc.tzalpha.net/>`_,
always up to date with master on `GitLab <https://gitlab.com/tezos/tezos>`_.
Building instructions
---------------------
To build the documentation, you can use the main Makefile target ``doc-html``
.. code:: bash
make doc-html
The documentation is built by Sphinx, and uses the Read The Docs theme.
On a debian system, you can install the needed dependencies with:
.. code:: bash
sudo apt install \
python3-recommonmark \
python3-sphinx \
python3-sphinx-rtd-theme
Sphinx extensions
-----------------
Some ad-hoc reference kinds are supported.
- ``:package-src:`name``` or ``:package-src:`text<name>``` points
to the gitlab source tree viewer where the `.opam` for the package
is located
- ``:package:`name``` or ``:package:`text<name>``` now points
either to the `odoc` page, or if it doesn't exist, to the gitlab
source tree viewer
- ``:package-name:`name``` or ``:package-name:`text<name>``` just
displays the package name (no link), checking that the package
exists
- ``:src:`/path/to/file/or/dir``` or
``:src:`text</path/to/file/or/dir>``` points to the gitlab source
tree viewer
- ``:opam:`package``` or ``:opam:`text<package>``` points to the
package page on ``opam.ocaml.org``, version number is supported
(``package.version``)
OCaml documentation
-------------------
Odoc is used for OCaml API generation, that you can install with:
.. code:: bash
opam install odoc
Tezos generates the API documentation for all libraries in HTML format. The
generated HTML pages in ``_build/<context>/_doc``. It creates one sub-directory
per public library and generates an ``index.html`` file in each sub-directory.
The documentation is not installed on the system by Tezos. It is meant to be
read locally while developing and then published on the www when releasing
packages.
