Run the following commands from OpenMW source directory to build a new Docker image openmw_doc:

cd docs
docker build -t openmw_doc .
cd ..

(or run script docs/prepare_docker_image.sh)

This step needs to be repeated only if any dependencies were changed.

The image is based on readthedocs/build:latest that is newer than the image readthedocs uses by default (readthedocs/build:stable). So if after some readthedocs update the documentation will stop building, there is a chance to detect it before the online docs will break.

Run the following command from OpenMW source directory to generate the documentation:

docker run --user "$(id -u)":"$(id -g)" --volume "$PWD":/openmw openmw_doc \
    sphinx-build /openmw/docs/source /openmw/docs/build

(or run script docs/build_docs.sh)

To view the generated documentation just open docs/build/index.html in a browser.

Building documentation without Docker is more complicated as it requires multiple dependencies.

From OpenMW source directory

pip3 install -r docs/requirements.txt

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt install luarocks
git clone https://gitlab.com/ptmikheev/openmw-luadocumentor.git
cd openmw-luadocumentor/luarocks
luarocks --local pack openmwluadocumentor-0.2.0-1.rockspec
luarocks --local install openmwluadocumentor-0.2.0-1.src.rock

Windows

• install LuaRocks (heavily recommended to use the standalone package) https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/wiki/Installation-instructions-for-Windows
• git clone https://gitlab.com/ptmikheev/openmw-luadocumentor.git
• cd openmw-luadocumentor/luarocks
• open "Developer Command Prompt for VS <2017/2019>" in this directory and run:

luarocks --local pack openmwluadocumentor-0.2.0-1.rockspec
luarocks --local install openmwluadocumentor-0.2.0-1.src.rock

Run the following command from OpenMW source directory to generate the documentation:

sphinx-build docs/source docs/build