getting windows help files to display

Motopol - daniel huhardeaux daniel.huhardeaux at motopol.pl
Mon Nov 12 08:48:22 CST 2001


Bart Symons wrote:

>F. James Rohlf wrote:
>
>>I can run my programs with no problems but the help files do not display.
>>Is there some trick?
>>
>>I am running RH 7.2 with wine installed using the rpm that came with it.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>
>...
>If you don't find winhelp on your PC then you can still download and 
>compile it yourself. This is quite easy.
>Download a .tar.gz from the Wine web site (www.winehq.com). Untar it into a 
>new directory, go into the main directory and enter:
>"./configure" and then "make". Then go into the "programs/winhelp" 
>directory and type "make". Then you should find a winhelp.so file. Copy 
>this file somewhere in your fake Windows directory structure, create the 
>symbolic link as explained above and try to run "winhelp", then select a 
>.hlp file. When all this is done you may delete the directory you untarred 
>Wine into.
>
>
I try it. My winhelp is created correctly but no way to open an 
helpfile. Blank screen, thats all :-(

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