OpenROAD Documentation

This docs/ hierarchy houses code and raw files to build the on-line documentation (using Sphinx) and manual pages using (using Pandoc)

This on-line documentation is available at https://openroad.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

Requires:

• Python 3.x
• Pip
• virtualenv
• doxygen

Prerequisites

• To install pandoc, refer to this link. apt-get should just work for Ubuntu.
• To install sphinx requirements, create a virtual environment (e.g. conda/virtualenv) and then run pip install -r requirements.txt.

You may install Doxygen from this link. Most methods of installation are fine, just ensure that doxygen is in $PATH. This is needed for Doxygen compilation.

To install Python packages:

virtualenv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

### Build instructions for Pandoc manpages

The `-j16` command is optional for speeding up the manpage compilation process by using multiple jobs
based on the number of cores in your system.

make clean

# Note this step is important as it regenerates the documentation using latest sources.
make preprocess && make all -j16

To view manpages

You will be prompted to enter the RELATIVE path to cat folders which is optional.

man openroad

Build instructions for Sphinx docs

HTML docs

make html

Check for broken links

make checklinks