[Lazarus] Building help files: the nitty-gritty

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:32:40 +0000
Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:

> Mattias wrote:
> 
>  >>> I've been working through this several times with the intention of
> >>> putting Lazarus docs build (from source) plus FPC docs copy (from 
> >>> binaries) into my usual build/installation scripts, but am finding 
> >>> that the FPC (RTL etc.) stuff is only picked up intermittently. Is 
> >>> there a cache to be cleared somewhere or something comparable?
> >> 
> >> I see from the .txt file that RTL etc. help is supposed to not work in 
> >> the Lazarus IDE at present. But it doesn't not work all the time, on a 
> >> couple of occasions it's been fine but I can't pin down the conditions.
>  >
>  > Just put the fcl, rtl, prog, ... chm files into docs/chm and lhelp
>  > will open them. Even links between them should work.
> 
> lhelp will open them manually, but keyword help in the IDE (e.g. F1 on 
> begin or {$i) doesn't. I get IDE popups like 'Help keyword 
> "FPCKeyword_begin" not found.
> 
> lazarus-trunk$ find . -iname '*chm'
> ./components/wiki/chm
> ./docs/chm
> ./docs/chm/toc.chm
> ./docs/chm/user.chm
> ./docs/chm/fpdoc.chm
> ./docs/chm/prog.chm
> ./docs/chm/fcl.chm
> ./docs/chm/rtl.chm
> ./docs/chm/ref.chm
> ./docs/html/lcl/lcl.chm

Add the ref.kwd file too.

Mattias