Apache Mynewt Documentation

Contents

• Writing Documentation
• Preview Changes
• Setup (MacOS)
  • Prerequisites:
  • Toolchain Install:
• Setup (Linux)

This is the project documentation for the Apache Mynewt project. It is built using Sphinx.

Each component of Mynewt contains its own specific documentation in its repo under docs. At build time these are combined to create the full document set for publication.

The Apache Mynewt source code also contains inline comments in Doxygen format to document its APIs.

Writing Documentation

Sphinx use reStructuredText. http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/rest.html.

Embedding Doxygen generated source documentation is through the Breathe bridge. http://breathe.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. This bridge embeds source documentation using Sphinx's C domain. For example: .. doxygenfile:: full/include/console/console.h

Documents can then refer to code elements using the C domain syntax: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/domains.html#cross-referencing-c-constructs For example: :c:func:`console_read()` or :c:data:`console_input`.

Linking to other files should be relative for ease of deployment and multi-version support. For example :doc:`../../newt/install/newt_mac`.

Preview Changes

make clean && make docs && (cd _build/html && python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080)

Setup (MacOS)

Note: This build toolchain is known to work on MacOS 10.11.

Prerequisites:

• homebrew

$ brew --version
Homebrew 1.1.7

• python

$ python --version
Python 2.7.10

• pip

$ pip --version
pip 9.0.1 from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)

Toolchain Install:

$ git clone https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx.git sphinx

$ cd sphinx && sudo -E python setup.py install && cd ..

$ git clone https://github.com/michaeljones/breathe.git breathe

$ cd breathe && sudo -E python setup.py install && cd ..

$ brew install doxygen

$ sudo pip install recommonmark

Setup (Linux)

Most Linux distributions provide necessary packages in their repositories.

Ubuntu/Debian .. code-block:: bash

sudo apt-get install doxygen python3-breathe python3-recommonmark

Fedora .. code-block:: bash

sudo dnf install doxygen python3-breathe python3-recommonmark