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Use when building, previewing, or testing the TinyUSB Sphinx docs locally (docs/ → HTML), chasing Sphinx warnings, understanding how example READMEs get into the docs, or regenerating the auto-generated reference files after adding a board or dependency (boards.rst, dependencies.rst, BoardPresets.json, CMakePresets.json).

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Build TinyUSB Docs

Build & preview

pip install -r docs/requirements.txt    # one-time
python3 tools/build_doc.py -o            # build docs/_build/ and open it

tools/build_doc.py wraps sphinx-build: -c clean, -W fail on warnings, -o open. Raw form: sphinx-build -b html docs docs/_build.

  • Pages can be .rst or .md (MyST). Example README.mds under examples/{device,host,dual}/*/ are auto-collected at build time into docs/examples/ (per-group index pages, git-ignored) — add/rename an example and just rebuild; edit the source README, never the generated copies.
  • Watch the output for WARNING: (broken refs, missing toctree entries).

Regenerate after adding a board or dependency

Run from the repo root; docs/reference/*.rst and the preset JSONs are generated — don't hand-edit.

AddedRun
Board (hw/bsp/FAMILY/boards/)python3 tools/gen_doc.py + python3 tools/gen_presets.py
Dependency (edited tools/get_deps.py)python3 tools/gen_doc.py
  • gen_doc.py → docs/reference/boards.rst + dependencies.rst. Needs pandas + tabulate (not in requirements.txt) — pip install pandas tabulate if it errors.
  • gen_presets.py → hw/bsp/BoardPresets.json + per-example CMakePresets.json.

Then rebuild and git diff the regenerated files; commit them with the board/dep change.