[Lazarus] Lazarus trunk help options: CHM Help browser does not show up
Reinier Olislagers
reinierolislagers at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 16:22:12 CET 2012
On 17-2-2012 15:45, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 17 February 2012 16:37, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>>> Since you have to download the docs sources in either case, you also can
>>> use the supplied MakeFile, of course.
>> ... unless I'm overlooking something again, that requires latex to
>> export to chm files??
>> (eg make chm IIRC)
>> Chances of it being available on Windows, OSX, are not much higher than
>> on Linux. Requiring it just to build documentation seems... excessive.
>
> The RTL and FCL documentation can be created without the LaTeX
> requirement (if you don't target DVI or PDF), because they use the
> fpdoc XML files as source. The Language Reference, Programmers
> Reference etc are in *.tex Latex files, so they require a Latex setup
> to build to any output.
Just to confirm: that would be by running
make chm
in the fpcdocs directory?
That throws up a lot of Latex warnings in my install...
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