Difference between revisions of "chmhelp"
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Recompiling and configuring the help should do the trick. Read the file components/chmhelp/README.txt. | Recompiling and configuring the help should do the trick. Read the file components/chmhelp/README.txt. | ||
| − | + | There are multiple help files you can/should download/use: | |
| + | # the FPC rtl.chm and fcl.chm that document FreePascal components can be downloaded in a zip file from [http://www.freepascal.org/download.var]. | ||
| + | # the Lazarus Component Library help file, lcl.chm, can be downloaded from [http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Documentation/]. | ||
== Lazarus IDE help == | == Lazarus IDE help == | ||
Revision as of 07:21, 10 May 2012
Chmhelp
This is a placeholder for the Lazarus chmhelp package (components/chmhelp).
The package is an external help server that communicates with the IDE over a socket. The CHM support is based on FPC package chm.
Recompiling and configuring the help should do the trick. Read the file components/chmhelp/README.txt.
There are multiple help files you can/should download/use:
- the FPC rtl.chm and fcl.chm that document FreePascal components can be downloaded in a zip file from [1].
- the Lazarus Component Library help file, lcl.chm, can be downloaded from [2].
Lazarus IDE help
The problem with the IDE help is that it is in some wiki format, which is not available as an archive, and with a structure that is only semi enforced by the users.
There is a tool wikihelp in lazarus-ccr that should be able to download and relink the wiki for offline use (which then could be transformed into a meagre quality but working chm), but the Lazarus Wiki was closed for bulk downloads due to attacks in the past.
Wikihelp:
- original home: http://wiki.ullihome.de/index.php/WikiHelp-Download/de
- lazarus-ccr location : applications/wikihelp (requires synapse)
