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Compiling the API documentation follows the same general steps as compiling the FreeCAD executable, as indicated in the Compile on Linux page.

General workflow to compile FreeCAD's programming documentation. The Doxygen and Graphviz packages must be in the system, as well as the FreeCAD source code itself. CMake configures the system so that with a single make instruction the documentation for the the entire project is compiled into many HTML files with diagrams.

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sudo apt install doxygen graphviz

Then follow the same steps you would do to compile FreeCAD, as described on the compile on Linux page, and summarized here for convenience.

• Get the source code of FreeCAD and place it in its own directory freecad-source.
• Create another directory freecad-build in which you will compile FreeCAD and its documentation.
• Configure the sources with cmake, making sure you indicate the source directory, and specify the required options for your build.
• Trigger the creation of the documentation using make.

git clone https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD.git freecad-source
mkdir freecad-build
cd freecad-build
cmake -DBUILD_QT5=ON -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python3 ../freecad-source

While you are inside the build directory issue the following instruction to create only the documentation.

make -j$(nproc --ignore=2) DevDoc

freecad-build/doc/SourceDocu/html/

The point of entrance to the documentation is the index.html file, which you can open with a web browser:

xdg-open freecad-build/doc/SourceDocu/html/index.html

Reduced documentation

The complete documentation uses around 3Gb of disk space. An alternative, smaller version of the documentation which takes only around 600 MB can be generated with a different target. This is the version displayed on the FreeCAD API website.

make -j$(nproc --ignore=2) WebDoc

The documentation on the FreeCAD API website is produced automatically from https://github.com/FreeCAD/SourceDoc . Anyone can rebuild it and submit a pull request:

• Fork the repo at https://github.com/FreeCAD/SourceDoc
• on your machine: clone the FreeCAD code (if you haven't yet), create a build dir for the doc, and clone the above SourceDoc repo inside. That SourceDoc will be updated when you rebuild the doc, and you'll be able to commit & push the results afterwards:

git clone https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD
cd FreeCAD
mkdir build
cd build
mkdir -p doc/SourceDocu/html
cd doc/SourceDocu/html
git clone your-fork-url
cd ../../..
cmake -DBUILD_QT5=ON -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python3 ..
make WebDoc
cd doc/SourceDocu/html
git commit
git push

• Go to your fork online, and create a pull request.

See the Doxygen page for an extensive explanation on how to comment C++ and Python source code so that it can be processed by Doxygen to automatically create the documentation.

Essentially, a comment block, starting with /** or /// for C++, or ## for Python, needs to appear before every class or function definition, so that it is picked up by Doxygen. Many special commands, which start with \ or @, can be used to define parts of the code and format the output. Markdown syntax is also understood within the comment block, which makes it convenient to emphasize certain parts of the documentation.

/**
 * Returns the name of the workbench object.
 */
std::string name() const;

/**
 * Set the name to the workbench object.
 */
void setName(const std::string&);

/// remove the added TaskWatcher
void removeTaskWatcher(void);

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