Documentation

Documentation for LightGBM is generated using Sphinx and Breathe, which works on top of Doxygen output.

List of parameters and their descriptions in Parameters.rst is generated automatically from comments in config file by this script.

After each commit on master, documentation is updated and published to Read the Docs.

Build

You can build the documentation locally. Just install Doxygen and run in docs folder

pip install -r requirements.txt
make html

Unfortunately, documentation for R code is built only on our site, and commands above will not build it for you locally. Consider using common R utilities for documentation generation, if you need it.

If you faced any problems with Doxygen installation or you simply do not need documentation for C code, it is possible to build the documentation without it:

pip install -r requirements_base.txt
export C_API=NO || set C_API=NO
make html