Comment 12 for bug 1313412

Thanks for that Wayne.
I had a response from Nick which explains the probelm:
<<Nick Østergaard proposed the following answer:
You can read the latest versions of the docs at http://docs.kicad-
pcb.org/. This is ofc a workaround, because I have not made the windows
installer fetch and install those yet.>>
That probably explains it!
Thanks
Andy

      From: Wayne Stambaugh <email address hidden>
 To: <email address hidden>
 Sent: Wednesday, 8 July 2015, 15:18
 Subject: Re: [Bug 1313412] Re: Help files could not be found under Windows

Please post the full path to the help files.  I cannot duplicate this on
my system.  If someone knows what platform the installer build was
created and how the build was configured, please post this information.
 It would be useful to know if the issue is in the build configuration
or the KiCad source.

On 7/7/2015 5:57 PM, TraditionAndrew Denham wrote:
> I have the same issue with the latest windows versions i686 or x64 (not
> through winbuilder). The help files are there as pdfs but the menu help
> does not find them in any Kicad program.
>

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Title:
  Help files could not be found under Windows

Status in KiCad EDA Software Suite:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  All KiCad applications after switching to KIWAY could not found any help files from <kicad_dir>/doc/help under Windows.
  For example. When trying to call help file from KiCad project manager a message dialog has been displayed:

  "Help file 'kicad.pdf' could not be found."

  Also 'getting_started_in_kicad.pdf' couldn't be found.

  All PDFs existed in /doc/help. All kiway files existed in bin dir.

  Application: kicad
  Version: (2014-04-27 BZR 4835)-product Release build
  wxWidgets: Version 3.0.0 (debug,wchar_t,compiler with C++ ABI 1002,GCC 4.8.1,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
  Platform: Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
  Boost version: 1.54.0
          USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
          USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
          KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
          KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
          KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
          USE_FP_LIB_TABLE=HARD_CODED_ON
          BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON

  The Linux binaries works fine. Every help files are loaded OK for this
  release.

  Application: kicad
  Version: (2014-04-27 BZR 4835)-product Release build
  wxWidgets: Version 2.8.12 (release,Unicode,compiler with C++ ABI 1002,GCC 4.6.3,wx containers,compatible with 2.6)
  Platform: Linux 3.2.0-60-generic i686, 32 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
  Boost version: 1.54.0
          USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
          USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
          KICAD_SCRIPTING=OFF
          KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=OFF
          KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
          USE_FP_LIB_TABLE=HARD_CODED_ON
          BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=OFF

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