Generate Haiku Book

In this article, we will review how to generate a local version of this Haiku book.

Indeed, the Haiku Book is only available through the online version : https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/api/

You might need - for any reason - to have access to the Haiku Book, but not via internet.

In order to generate the Haiku Book on your machine, first your need to get the Haiku Source code.

Once done, go into the "docs/user" directory and launch the commands :

mkdir ../../generated
doxygen

There will be a lot a warnings during the HTML pages generation, but it's not an issue.

Once finished, you will see the last warnings :

Go into the "generated/doxygen/html" folder :

And double click on the "index.html" file. Bingo ! The Haiku Book is now available on your machine :

In case you need a class description, you can use the search feature :

And all the documentation will be accessible locally, which can be handy in certain situations :)