[Lazarus] Building help files: the nitty-gritty

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:19:44 +0000
Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:

> Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> > Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> >> On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:13:07 +0000
> >> Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>>  > 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.
> > 
> >> Please try the files from here:
> >> http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/doc-chm.zip
> > 
> > RTL etc. keywords only work if Lazarus is started from the .chm 
> > directory. LCL always OK.
> 
> Should I Mantis this to make sure it's not overlooked?

Help on "begin" works fine under Linux.

Can it find ref.chm? (See debug log)
If not, what search paths do you see?

Mattias