diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 2d6f6423..3e5eb89a 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -297,6 +297,9 @@ endif()
 if (BUILDDOC)
   # Add a target to generate API documentation with Doxygen
   find_package (Doxygen REQUIRED)
+  # Set the full path to documenation (used by Doxygen STRIP_FROM_PATH) to
+  # generate html documentation with relative paths
+  set (DOXYGEN_STRIP_FROM_PATH ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR})
   configure_file (${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/doxy/Doxyfile.in ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/Doxyfile @ONLY)
   if (BUILDSWIGJAVA)
       configure_file (${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/doxy/Doxyfile.java.in ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/Doxyfile-java @ONLY)
diff --git a/doxy/Doxyfile.in b/doxy/Doxyfile.in
index aba2bcf8..a7ef8a55 100644
--- a/doxy/Doxyfile.in
+++ b/doxy/Doxyfile.in
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ FULL_PATH_NAMES        = YES
 # will be relative from the directory where doxygen is started.
 # This tag requires that the tag FULL_PATH_NAMES is set to YES.
 
-STRIP_FROM_PATH        =
+STRIP_FROM_PATH        = @PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR@
 
 # The STRIP_FROM_INC_PATH tag can be used to strip a user-defined part of the
 # path mentioned in the documentation of a class, which tells the reader which