README.md

Gazebo Documentation

This repository contains documentation about Gazebo that does not pertain to a specific Gazebo library. An example would be installation instructions for an Gazebo release. The documentation contained in this repository can be view at https://gazebosim.org/docs.

Each Gazebo library maintains documentation and tutorials that are scoped to the features and capabilities of the library itself. The documentation for a library can be found under the API Reference section of https://gazebosim.org/docs.

Updating gazebosim.org

Main docs

The documentation in this repository is built using Sphinx. To build, you need to install the following:

• python virtualenv

Create the virtual env and activate it:

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

Then install the necessary dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

python3 build_multiversion.py

This will build all the documentation for all versions of Gazebo. You can preview the result locally by running an HTTP server on the output directory .build. For example:

python3 -m http.server 8000 -d .build

This will serve the website on http://localhost:8000

For quicker iteration, you can build the documentation for a subset of Gazebo versions. To build garden and harmonic:

python3 build_multiversion.py --release garden harmonic

Library docs

Instructions on how to update all of the library docs is contained in the tools/build_docs.sh script.