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; see IDE Development#Builtin CHM help for more details. 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 free-form structure (as expected in a wiki).
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)
