On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:32:25 +0200 Reinier Olislagers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Mattias & list, > > In testing with my fpcup installer, I've noticed that the lhelp build > gets kicked off on the fly sometimes when I press F1 on a keyword. > > Very nice! > > However, I also noticed it doesn't seem to pick up my (non-default) > primary config path but uses the default (i.e. > C:\Users\Reinier\AppData\Local\lazarus\ on my Vista box). > > I tried to reproduce this using a snapshot on a clean Windows machine > but couldn't get the lhelp compile to work by just pressing F1 on a > keyword.... because it is delivered as a precompiled .exe > > So, just wanted to know if primary config path of the current IDE taken > into account when kicking off the lhelp build? yes. chmhelppkg which compiles lhelp uses the current lazarus directory. > If you (probably Mattias...) don't know by heart, I'd be happy to dig > deeper and find out myself! > > On a related note: would it make sense to distribute lhelp compiled with > default instead of debug mode (i.e. with no or external debug symbols)? > This would reduce size from about 20 meg to about 3 meg on a Windows > machine... > (Don't know if it is considered better to have a larger exe where you > can get a backtrace, but a patch is attached if wanted) The deb and rpm strip the lhelp exe. The windows snapshot should do the same. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
