[Lazarus] Documentation update (CHM building, lazutils)

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:52:34 +0100
Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com> wrote:

> Marco van de Voort schrieb:
> 
> > lazutils is now a separate package, and lcl references the new lazutils
> > package. Everything is done and committed, in theory generating CHMs is a
> > matter of installing dependencies, and then 
> > 
> > running fixdocs.sh in the fpcdocs repo 
> > 
> > and then running build_html_chm.sh in lazarus/docs/html
> 
> These scripts may be nice, but are not very useful for Window users. 
> That's why my documentation manager tries to import LPK files, and now I 
> ran into a problem with the new LazUtils.lpk:
> 
> How can "$(IDEBuildOptions)" be evaluated in code?
> This macro seems to specify compiler options (-Fi, -Fu...), which also 
> are required by the fpdoc source parser.

The macro IDEBuildOptions are only the custom options set by the user.

 
> For the RTL and FCL documentation the fpcdocs Makefile can be used on 
> every platform, to produce the fully expanded fpdoc and makeskel 
> commandlines, which can be redirected into an file and parsed by the 
> docmgr. But how get the actual commandlines or compiler options for 
> Lazarus packages?

You can read the .compiled file or the Makefile.compiled or run the
tool as IDE plugin. As IDE plugin you get all macros.

Mattias