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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/.

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.

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

• To run man commands inside OpenROAD, you can either use the Linux man binary:

# create a man wrapper
source man/scripts/main.tcl
man openroad

• Or just within OpenROAD itself.

# 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