[Lazarus] installing chm help

[Martin]

On 14/02/2012 18:33, waldo kitty wrote:
>
> ok, i decided to go back and retry this all over again... i'm 
> following the instructions in the wiki as linked to by the default 
> Help->Online Help page...
>
> http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Help_in_the_IDE#Installing_CHM_Help_for_The_RTL.2C_FCL_and_LCL_in_the_Lazarus_IDE 
>
>
>
> [quote]
> Installing CHM Help for The RTL, FCL and LCL in the Lazarus IDE
> If you are using Lazarus from Subversion
>
> The Lazarus help files can be installed following this easy steps:
>
> 1) Make sure that the package chmhelppkg is intalled. See the menu 
> Package->Install Packages. This package is installed by default in the 
> "bigide" so most users should already have it installed.
>
> 2) Open the project lazarus/components/chmhelp/lhelp/lhelp.lpi
>
> 3) Build this project
>
> 4) Download the latest stable Lazarus CHM help files from 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Documentation/
>
> 5) Copy all CHM files to lazarus/docs/html
>
> Now context sensitive help using F1 should already be working.
....
>
> so why isn't this working??? what is the key step that has been left 
> out of the instructions??
I added to the wiki

6) Go to the Environment Options, tab "Help Options' and select the "CHM 
Help Viewer". Check it's properties:
:"HelpExe" should be the lhelp you did just build
:"HelpFilesPath" should be, where you did put the chm files


which I found  I needed to do, since my Lazarus was not in it's default 
dir either