About This Manual
The purpose of this manual is provide necessary info about OpenCPN development for new and old contributors. It’s currently a work in progress and should not be used to obtain information. The currently used manual is available at The OpenCPN website
The manual is written for readers with basic programming skills.
Contents
The first section, OpenCPN Development, contains info on how to build the main program and how to contribute to the OpenCPN project.
The second section, Plugin Development, covers development and maintenance of plugins. This includes programming info like API and other interfaces, build setup and plugin deployment.
The Resources section contains various useful resources, notably on-line NMEA tools.
The Manual Maintenance section does indeed cover how to contribute to this manual
The Attic contains old, basically outdated docs which still could have some value in specific situations.