chmcmd(1)

💖 chmcmd(1) — HTML help file compression tool 💖

okay bestie, so this is chmcmd, aka The FPC Pascal htmlhelp (CHM) compiler ✨ it's the little tool that squishes your docs into a shiny Compressed HTML Help file and honestly? iconic.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

chmcmd [options] <helpfileproject filename>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what it actually does: it creates a Compressed HTML Help file (chm) 💅 and it can work from either a Microsoft htmlhelp project (.hhp) or a XML file made with the TCHMProject class in the fpc unit chmfilewriter. two paths, one slay compiler, no cap.

And like — if you pass no parameters at all, it's not gonna crash out or anything. It will just show you the available options, which is very demure, very mindful of it honestly 🎀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — show the help text, bestie. the classic. the moment you forget a flag and need rescuing 🫶
• --html-scan — scan the html for missing files and alink information 👀 (yes she checks your homework)
• --no-html-scan — don't scan the html for missing files and alink information 🙈 the "I trust you, do your thing" option
• --verbosity <number> — set the verbosity level from 0..5, where 0 is the least. crank it up if you want the full play-by-play, keep it low if you want peace and quiet 🌈
• --generate-xml — (if it's a .hhp file) also generate a xml project from the .hhp. two files, one command, we love a multitasker 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

chmls(1) · fpc(1) · fpdoc(1) — go read those too, they're part of the friend group 🦋

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie 🎀 this one's brought to you by Free Pascal, dated 29 December 2010 — yes she's an elder but she ate and left no crumbs. mwah 💖✨