Documentation: Use Sphinx doxylink to generate links to doxygen

The libcamera Sphinx documentation needs to link to the API
documentation generated by Doxygen. The links currently point to the
documentation hosted on the official https://libcamera.org/ website.
This causes multiple issues:

- Doxygen generates URLs with MD5 hashes of function signatures, making
  the link targets unstable.

- When testing documentation builds that include API changes, links to
  new API elements will be broken.

- The generated documentation can't be browsed offline.

Fix this by using the Sphinx doxylink extension. This allows specifying
link targets as class and function names, with the link being
automatically generated using the same MD5 hashing as Doxygen. The root
of the link target is configured in a central location, which defaults
to the build directory and can be overridden to point to the libcamera
website when pushing the documentation.

This commit only introduces the infrastructure to use doxylink. Manual
links will be replaced separately.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Klug <stefan.klug@ideasonboard.com>
This commit is contained in:
Laurent Pinchart
2025-07-26 04:31:18 +03:00
parent 50cca05e88
commit 0382d215db
5 changed files with 65 additions and 24 deletions

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@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
@INCLUDE_PATH = @TOP_BUILDDIR@/Documentation
@INCLUDE = Doxyfile-common
GENERATE_TAGFILE = @TOP_BUILDDIR@/Documentation/internal-api-html/tagfile.xml
HIDE_UNDOC_CLASSES = NO
HIDE_UNDOC_MEMBERS = NO
HTML_OUTPUT = internal-api-html

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@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
@INCLUDE_PATH = @TOP_BUILDDIR@/Documentation
@INCLUDE = Doxyfile-common
GENERATE_TAGFILE = @TOP_BUILDDIR@/Documentation/api-html/tagfile.xml
HIDE_UNDOC_CLASSES = YES
HIDE_UNDOC_MEMBERS = YES
HTML_OUTPUT = api-html

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@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ author = 'The libcamera documentation authors'
# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
# ones.
extensions = [
'sphinx.ext.graphviz'
'sphinx.ext.graphviz',
'sphinxcontrib.doxylink',
]
graphviz_output_format = 'svg'
@@ -71,6 +72,16 @@ exclude_patterns = [
# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
pygments_style = None
doxylink = {
'doxy-pub': (
'Documentation/api-html/tagfile.xml',
'../api-html/',
),
'doxy-int': (
'Documentation/internal-api-html/tagfile.xml',
'../internal-api-html/',
),
}
# -- Options for HTML output -------------------------------------------------

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@@ -81,16 +81,16 @@ if doxygen.found() and dot.found()
'@INPUT@',
])
custom_target('doxygen-public',
input : [
doxyfile,
doxyfile_common,
],
output : 'api-html',
command : [doxygen, doxyfile],
install : true,
install_dir : doc_install_dir,
install_tag : 'doc')
doxygen_public = custom_target('doxygen-public',
input : [
doxyfile,
doxyfile_common,
],
output : 'api-html',
command : [doxygen, doxyfile],
install : true,
install_dir : doc_install_dir,
install_tag : 'doc')
# This is the internal documentation, which hard-codes a list of directories
# to parse in its doxyfile.
@@ -99,18 +99,18 @@ if doxygen.found() and dot.found()
output : 'Doxyfile-internal',
configuration : cdata)
custom_target('doxygen-internal',
input : [
doxyfile,
doxyfile_common,
doxygen_public_input,
doxygen_internal_input,
],
output : 'internal-api-html',
command : [doxygen, doxyfile],
install : true,
install_dir : doc_install_dir,
install_tag : 'doc-internal')
doxygen_internal = custom_target('doxygen-internal',
input : [
doxyfile,
doxyfile_common,
doxygen_public_input,
doxygen_internal_input,
],
output : 'internal-api-html',
command : [doxygen, doxyfile],
install : true,
install_dir : doc_install_dir,
install_tag : 'doc-internal')
endif
#
@@ -121,6 +121,27 @@ sphinx = find_program('sphinx-build-3', 'sphinx-build',
required : get_option('documentation'))
if sphinx.found()
# Many distributions do not provide a recent-enough version of the doxylink
# module. This results in a build error with a cryptic message. Check the
# version manually and print clear error messages.
py_mod = import('python')
py3 = py_mod.find_installation('python3')
mod = 'sphinxcontrib.doxylink'
min_version = '>=1.6.1'
version = run_command(py3, '-c',
'import @0@ ; print(@0@.__version__)'.format(mod),
check : false).stdout().strip()
if version == ''
error('@0@ module not found'.format(mod))
endif
if not version.version_compare(min_version)
error('@0@ module v@1@ is too old, @2@ is needed'
.format(mod, version, min_version))
endif
docs_sources = [
'camera-sensor-model.rst',
'code-of-conduct.rst',
@@ -154,6 +175,10 @@ if sphinx.found()
input : docs_sources,
output : 'html',
build_by_default : true,
depends : [
doxygen_public,
doxygen_internal,
],
install : true,
install_dir : doc_install_dir,
install_tag : 'doc')

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@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ for device hotplug enumeration: [optional]
libudev-dev
for documentation: [optional]
python3-sphinx doxygen graphviz texlive-latex-extra
doxygen graphviz python3-sphinx python3-sphinxcontrib.doxylink (>= 1.6.1)
texlive-latex-extra
for gstreamer: [optional]
libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev