wine users - Sep 2010 - hhc.exe compiles .chm files, but does not index properly

Hello,

I've spent a while reading about configuring WINE for use with hhc.exe to
create .chm files. These instructions almost work:

http://code.google.com/p/htmlhelp/wiki/HHW4Wine

But, when comparing the Windows-generated .chm to the Linux-generated .chm, the
Linux-generated one does not have sorted or consolidated index entries. It seems
that whatever part of the process is responsible for sorting and grouping simply
doesn't fire when running under WINE, but there's no error. I am already
using the native versions of:

itircl.dll
itss.dll
hhctrl.ocx (I get the same results without this native .ocx file)

I get the same behavior from wine 1.2 and wine 1.0.1. I've been spending
some time just randomly overriding other dlls to no avail. Does anybody have an
idea what I might have configured incorrectly or a lead I should follow? I'm
feeling rather dead in the water right now. Thanks for any help,

-Sam

samdafi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've spent a while reading about configuring WINE for use with hhc.exe
to create .chm files. These instructions almost work:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/htmlhelp/wiki/HHW4Wine
> 
That howto states clearly that it was written for Wine 0.9.47.

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-05f345e881bfc31ae77e902bd577dccba0ba4112

> I've been spending some time just randomly overriding other dlls to no
avail.
Don't do that. Retest in a clean wineprefix.

There are a number of bugs already filed for problems with .chm files. Search
bugzilla, and if none of them match your problem, file one.