When you have developed a library using Vala programing language, or any other language, you should generate documentation about its API. You can use Valadoc to generate Documentation for Vala based libraries.
GXml, is a Vala project using valadoc command line tool and Autotools, to automatically generate its documentation. As you can see in this link, Vala documentation provides a very convenient graph about object’s hierarchy; properties and methods provided by current class; and all inherited properties and methods from base classes and interfaces it implements.
But how can I add this feature to my own Vala project? Well, you can use Autotools to call valadoc, generate your documentation and then install in the system, to be available for GNOME DevHelp to show up locally and, at the same time, in GNOME Builder integrated help facility.
While I haven’t, yet, found the way to generate C API documentation using valadoc, from my Vala API one, I’ll show you, in a second part, how you can do it, but not before I have figured out how to create a mk file you can use in your project for an out-of-the-box procedure.
