[Lazarus] fpdocmanager questions & crash

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
> On 2-4-2012 9:43, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>> Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
>>> On 1-4-2012 18:28, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>>>> Reinier Olislagers schrieb:
>>>>> Is it required to have fpcdocs under your FPC directory?
>> Correction: you are right, according to the FPDoc documentation fpcdocs
>> must reside inside a FPC source directory, so that the Makefile can find
>> the units.
> Hmmm... Where did you find that?

In fpcdocs/README.DOCS. But FPCSRCDIR may be usable when the fpcdocs are 
in a different place (as mentioned there).


>>>>> 3. RTL step: noticed you need to create 2 Windows batch files. Wouldn't
>>>>> it be more useful if there were some cross platform way of generating
>>>>> the rtl etc docs (e.g. shelling out to fpdoc with parameters like
>>>>> lazbuild is doing right now?)
>>>> These files can be omitted as soon as somebody explains how to use the
>>>> FPCDocs Makefile to *only* create the FPDoc projects.
>>> Not going there... make files are not my forte at all..
>> Me2 :-(
> Wondering how you are going to make that work for Linux/other OS...

Not me :-(

As long as FPC and Lazarus expect that every user can use a console, I 
see no better solution. Except that the developers should decide to 
distribute the FPDoc projects instead of the Makefile...

DoDi