From 1844f4f31276227d6a4d512f1220e83373ea9498 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Théo Zimmermann Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:06:52 +0200 Subject: Move INSTALL.doc into doc/README.md. This will avoid in particular this ambiguous file extension. [ci skip] --- doc/README.md | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 91 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/README.md (limited to 'doc/README.md') diff --git a/doc/README.md b/doc/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c47f9f48a --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ + The Coq documentation + ===================== + +The Coq documentation includes + +- A Reference Manual +- A document presenting the Coq standard library + +The reference manual is written is reStructuredText and compiled +using Sphinx (see `doc/sphinx/README.rst`) to learn more. + +The documentation for the standard library is generated from +the `.v` source files using coqdoc. + +Prerequisite +------------ + +To produce all the documents, the following tools are needed: + + - latex (latex2e) + - pdflatex + - dvips + - makeindex + - Python 3 + - Sphinx 1.6.5 (http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/) + - sphinx_rtd_theme + - pexpect + - beautifulsoup4 + - Antlr4 runtime for Python 3 + + +Under recent Debian based operating systems (Debian 10 "Buster", +Ubuntu 18.04, ...) a working set of packages for compiling the +documentation for Coq is: + + texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended python3-sphinx + python3-pexpect python3-sphinx-rtd-theme python3-bs4 + python3-sphinxcontrib.bibtex python3-pip + +Then, install the Python3 Antlr4 package: + + pip3 install antlr4-python3-runtime + +Nix users should get the correct development environment to build the +HTML documentation from Coq's `default.nix`. [Note Nix setup doesn't +include the LaTeX packages needed to build the full documentation.] + +If you are in an older/different distribution you can install the +Python packages required to build the user manual using python3-pip: + + pip3 install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme beautifulsoup4 antlr4-python3-runtime pexpect sphinxcontrib-bibtex + +Compilation +----------- + +To produce all documentation about Coq, just run: + + ./configure (if you hadn't already) + make doc + + +Alternatively, you can use some specific targets: + + make doc-ps + to produce all PostScript documents + + make doc-pdf + to produce all PDF documents + + make doc-html + to produce all html documents + + make sphinx + to produce the HTML version of the reference manual + + make stdlib + to produce all formats of the Coq standard library + + +Also note the "-with-doc yes" option of ./configure to enable the +build of the documentation as part of the default make target. + + +Installation +------------ + +To install all produced documents, do: + + make DOCDIR=/some/directory/for/documentation install-doc + +DOCDIR defaults to /usr/share/doc/coq -- cgit v1.2.3