Documentation is generated using the doxygen tool that uses graphviz for drawing graphs. In order to generate Lua docs you need to install https://github.com/alecchen/doxygen-lua as follows: cpan App::cpanminus cpan inc::Module::Install git clone https://github.com/alecchen/doxygen-lua.git cd doxygen-lua/ perl Makefile.PL make sudo make install sudo cp bin/lua2dox /opt/local/bin/