gi-docgen 2021.1

Documentation tool for GObject-based libraries

GI-DocGen: Documentation tool for GObject-based libraries

GI-DocGen is a document generator for GObject-based libraries. GObject is the base type system of the GNOME project. GI-Docgen reuses the introspection data generated by GObject-based libraries to generate the API reference of these libraries, as well as other ancillary documentation.

Installation

Running GI-DocGen uninstalled

You can run GI-DocGen from its repository, by calling:

./gi-docgen.py

GI-DocGen will automatically detect this case.

Installing GI-DocGen via pip

To install GI-DocGen, you will need to have the following pieces of software available on your computer:

• Python 3.6, or later
• pip

Run the following command:

pip3 install --user gi-docgen

After running the command above, make sure to have the ~/.local/bin directory listed in your $PATH environment variable.

To update GI-DocGen, run the following command:

pip3 install --user --upgrade gi-docgen

Installing GI-DocGen from source

You can also install GI-DocGen from a local copy of its source code repository, but we recommend the methods above for easier and more stable updates. Please make sure the requirements for the installation via pip are present on your machine. Once you are inside the source code directory, run the following command:

python3 setup.py install

Usage

First, read the GI-DocGen tutorial.

The documentation for GI-DocGen is available online.

The examples directory in the repository contains simple project files for various GNOME libraries.

Copyright and Licensing terms

Copyright 2021 GNOME Foundation

GI-DocGen is released under the terms of the Apache License, version 2.0, or under the terms of the GNU General Publice License, either version 3.0 or, at your option, any later version.