VirtualBox

Opened 9 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

Last modified 8 years ago

#14520 closed defect (fixed)

Cannot build VirtualBox.chm => Fixed in SVN

Reported by: mYse|f Owned by:
Component: documentation Version: VirtualBox 5.0.2
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Linux

Description

According to this past forum topic, it should be possible to build VirtualBox.chm from OSE sources provided that VBOX_WITH_DOCS_CHM is set to "1", and VBOX_PATH_HTML_HELP_WORKSHOP targets the folder holding the hhc.exe binary (installed through Wine). However, when I try to do so, the compilation fails with the following error message:

kmk: *** No rule to make target `/media/trisquel/NewVirtualDisk1/VirtualBox-5.0.2/doc/manual/common-html-formatcfg.xsl', needed by `/media/trisquel/NewVirtualDisk1/VirtualBox-5.0.2/out/debian/builddir/obj/manual/en_US/docbook-htmlhelp-formatcfg.xsl'. Stop.

Attachments (8)

virtualbox_chm_building_error.png (188.1 KB ) - added by mYse|f 9 years ago.
Screenshot of the Terminal window
virtualbox_docbookx_dtd_error.png (224.3 KB ) - added by mYse|f 9 years ago.
The error message that appears when building with CHM documentation
building_virtualbox_chm_using_chmcmd.png (148.5 KB ) - added by mYse|f 9 years ago.
Building VirtualBox with the CHM documentation using Free Pascal's CHM compiler
VirtualBox.chm.7z.001 (512.0 KB ) - added by mYse|f 9 years ago.
Documentation created with Free Pascal's CHM compiler (1 of 5)
VirtualBox.chm.7z.002 (512.0 KB ) - added by mYse|f 9 years ago.
Documentation created with Free Pascal's CHM compiler (2 of 5)
VirtualBox.chm.7z.003 (512.0 KB ) - added by mYse|f 9 years ago.
Documentation created with Free Pascal's CHM compiler (3 of 5)
VirtualBox.chm.7z.004 (512.0 KB ) - added by mYse|f 9 years ago.
Documentation created with Free Pascal's CHM compiler (4 of 5)
VirtualBox.chm.7z.005 (205.7 KB ) - added by mYse|f 9 years ago.
Documentation created with Free Pascal's CHM compiler (5 of 5)

Change History (19)

by mYse|f, 9 years ago

Screenshot of the Terminal window

comment:1 by Frank Mehnert, 9 years ago

Summary: Cannot build VirtualBox.chmCannot build VirtualBox.chm => Fixed in SVN

Thanks for the report. These missing files will be available with the tarball of the next 5.0.x maintenance release.

comment:2 by mYse|f, 9 years ago

Thank you very much! Until then, would it be possible to include the missing file in the SVN repository so I could try to make a build for the current release (and report back if there's any problem)?

As a side note, have you tried to use Free Pascal's chmcmd tool instead of the proprietary HTML Help Workshop to compile the VirtualBox.chm file from source?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/fp-utils-2.6.4

comment:3 by mYse|f, 9 years ago

Fixed in SVN

I don't see the file there yet.

comment:4 by Frank Mehnert, 9 years ago

They should be there now, try again and let me know if anything else is missing. Regarding chmcmd, we didn't try this yet.

comment:5 by mYse|f, 9 years ago

After I included the missing file and satisfied a few extra dependencies, I've only encountered the issue described in this thread which I was able to solve by commenting out the problematic lines in Makefile.kmk. However, I was unable to get the HTML Help Workshop working despite my multiple attempts so I cannot tell whether it's possible to use it or not. On the contrary, I was able to successfully build VirtualBox.chm using Free Pascal's CHM compiler (which was my initial goal anyway) and so I adapted the Makefile.kmk to use it instead.

Note: The last comment on the linked page says that there are some missing files that has now been included in the SVN repository. Actually, there's a lot more (mostly third-party and non-OSE stuff) but so far I was able to find workarounds for most of them.

by mYse|f, 9 years ago

The error message that appears when building with CHM documentation

by mYse|f, 9 years ago

Building VirtualBox with the CHM documentation using Free Pascal's CHM compiler

by mYse|f, 9 years ago

Attachment: VirtualBox.chm.7z.001 added

Documentation created with Free Pascal's CHM compiler (1 of 5)

by mYse|f, 9 years ago

Attachment: VirtualBox.chm.7z.002 added

Documentation created with Free Pascal's CHM compiler (2 of 5)

by mYse|f, 9 years ago

Attachment: VirtualBox.chm.7z.003 added

Documentation created with Free Pascal's CHM compiler (3 of 5)

by mYse|f, 9 years ago

Attachment: VirtualBox.chm.7z.004 added

Documentation created with Free Pascal's CHM compiler (4 of 5)

by mYse|f, 9 years ago

Attachment: VirtualBox.chm.7z.005 added

Documentation created with Free Pascal's CHM compiler (5 of 5)

comment:6 by Frank Mehnert, 9 years ago

The error about missing docbook.dtd is triggered because either DocBook is not installed or not found. VBOX_PATH_DOCBOOK_DTD must be set to the correct path. See doc/manual/Makefile.kmk lines 91 ff.

comment:7 by mYse|f, 9 years ago

Setting VBOX_PATH_DOCBOOK_DTD to http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5 did the trick. Thanks!

comment:8 by sergiomb, 8 years ago

Thanks , build worked on Fedora 21, 22, 23 and rawhide without internet access.

I set :

VBOX_PATH_DOCBOOK_DTD=/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.5/

and added :

BuildRequires: docbook-dtds

comment:9 by Frank Mehnert, 8 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

in reply to:  2 comment:10 by sergiomb, 8 years ago

Replying to mYse|f:

As a side note, have you tried to use Free Pascal's chmcmd tool instead of the proprietary HTML Help Workshop to compile the VirtualBox.chm file from source?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/fp-utils-2.6.4

Hello, how you do that ? have you any documentation about that ?

I tried build with VBOX_WITH_DOCS_CHM=1 but :

# we can't build CHM DOCS we need hhc.exe which is not in source and we need
# also install wine:
# wine: cannot find
# '/builddir/build/BUILD/VirtualBox-5.1.6/tools/win.x86/HTML_Help_Workshop/v1.3//hhc.exe'

comment:11 by Michael Thayer, 8 years ago

This. But it does not generate the CHM index file, so it is not a proper replacement for hhc.

Index: doc/manual/Makefile.kmk
===================================================================
--- doc/manual/Makefile.kmk	(revision 110816)
+++ doc/manual/Makefile.kmk	(working copy)
@@ -132,10 +132,9 @@
  VBOX_PDFLATEX_CMD         = pdflatex $(VBOX_PDFLATEX_HALT) -interaction $(VBOX_PDFLATEX_INTERACTION)
 endif
 
-# Windows HTML Help Workshop compiler (stupid thing always returns an error!)
-VBOX_HHC = -$(EXEC_X86_WIN32) $(VBOX_PATH_HTML_HELP_WORKSHOP)/hhc.exe
+# Free Pascal chm compiler
+VBOX_HHC = chmcmd
 
-
 # Additional xsltproc options when generating
 VBOX_HTMLHELP_OPTS ?=
 
@@ -729,7 +728,7 @@
 		$(foreach f,$(VBOX_MANUAL_LANGUAGES),$(addprefix $(VBOX_PATH_MANUAL_OUTBASE)/$f/HTMLHelp/,$(VBOX_MANUAL_PNG_FILES_$(f))))
 	$(call MSG_L1,hhc $<,=> $@)
 	$(QUIET)$(RM) -f $@
-	$(QUIET)$(VBOX_HHC) $(subst /,\\,$<)
+	$(QUIET)cd $(dir $<); $(VBOX_HHC) $<; chmod 0644 $@
 
  # Prepare the XSL file for our title page, htmlhelp variant.
  $(foreach f,$(VBOX_MANUAL_LANGUAGES),$(VBOX_PATH_MANUAL_OUTBASE)/$f/titlepage-htmlhelp.xsl): \
@@ -752,7 +751,7 @@
 	$(QUIET)$(MKDIR) -p $(@D)
 	$(QUIET)$(VBOX_XSLTPROC_WITH_CAT) --output $(@D)/ \
 		--stringparam htmlhelp.chm \
-		$(subst /,\\,$(@D)/../VirtualBox.chm) \
+		$(@D)/../VirtualBox.chm \
 		$(HTMLHELPOPTS) $(@D)/../docbook-htmlhelp-formatcfg.xsl \
 		$<
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