Docs
Requirements
To build the PDAL documentation yourself, you need to install the following items:
Sphinx and Breathe
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.
Doxygen
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
Latex and pdflatex are used to generate the companion PDF of the website.
dvipng
For math output, we depend on dvipng to turn Latex output into math PNGs.
Generation
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.
Website
The http://pdal.io website is regenerated from the *-maintenance
branch using
Github Actions. 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.