[fpc-devel] download or compile documentation

[Tomas Hajny]

On 2024-05-09 09:17, Marģers . via fpc-devel wrote:


Hi,

> Is there a way to download human readable format documenation?
> 
> Looking documentation of 3.2.2 and it is bad. Errors and errors.

What do you mean with "errors and errors"?


> Wanted to crosschech, maybe it is all fixed meanwhile.

Sources of the docs are available in Git and are "human readable", 
although obviously not as easily as the final output formats.


> Failing to compilde documentation by myself. Where to download or how
> to compile?

Are you aware of the repository "Documentation" 
(https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/documentation) in Gitlab? Have 
you read the included README.md file (there is information on the 
supported targets)?


> Simple "make" does not work. It is allways "Target not supported, run
> fpcmake". And that is not valid solution.

In order to build the complete docs, you need full sources as well, 
because descriptions of interfaces are directly generated from there. In 
order to do that, the "combined" repository "FPC Build" is used (with 
the approriate make target). However, note that there are some 
prerequisites (also described in the README.md).

Tomas