chmhelp

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.

The documentation files rtl.chm and fcl.chm can be downloaded in a chm.zip file from [1].

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 tool no longer works when I tried. Either I did something stupid, or something in the wiki engine/apache has been upgraded and no longer allows bulk downloads.

Wikihelp:

• original home: http://wiki.ullihome.de/index.php/WikiHelp-Download/de
• lazarus-ccr location : applications/wikihelp (requires synapse)