Hello

[QianwenZhu]

I want to get pyqt5 API in chm format and have downloaded qt-documentation-chm-5.7.0-1 and decompressed it. There are 5 files: chm.py, LICENSE.txt, main.py, README.md, style.sass.

I ran python main.py in command line, but nothing was created. Did I make some mistakes?(I have created folder named as /complete/output and /complete/source before ran main.py).

Thank you in advance.

[char101]

I think you need to download the Qt-5.7.0.chm.zip instead.

If you want to build it yourself, you'll need the HTML files from an existing Qt installation or from a prebuilt linux package e.g. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/qt5-doc/.

[QianwenZhu]

I tried downloading Qt-5.7.0.chm.zip for several times, but always failed.(Maybe caused by the fire wall in China).

And I have downloaded the package from https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/qt5-doc/ and decompress it. There are a lot of .qch files such as activeqt.qch, qtdoc.qch and so on, how can I use them to generate chm?

[char101]

The qch files are not required. You'll need to extract the html files and directories in usr/share/doc/qt to the complete/source directory.

So the commands required are something like this (untested)

$ git clone https://github.com/char101/qt-documentation-chm
$ cd qt-documentation-chm
$ mkdir complete
$ tar xvJf qt5-doc-5.8.0-2-any.pkg.tar.xz
$ mv usr/share/doc/qt complete/source
$ python main.py

[char101]

After that you'll need to compile the htmlhelp project (*.hhp) in the complete/output directory using htmlhelp workshop. Of course this should be done in Windows. The example commands I gave before are Linux commands since Windows commands are less powerful - you'll probably do it by using the file explorer, but it is hard to show the steps using explorer, so I gave the examples using Linux commands.

[char101]

Also you'll need to compile style.sass to style.css. There's a lot of tools for that.

[QianwenZhu]

Thank you very much for your detailed answer ! Came back late today. I'll try your steps tomorrow.