Installing XMLmind Web Help Compiler

Requirements

In order to run (or recompile) XMLmind Web Help Compiler: Java™ 1.8+.

In order to run a Web Help application generated by whc: a recent, preferably fast, Web browser. The Web Help applications generated by whc have been tested against Chrome (desktop and mobile versions), Safari (desktop and mobile versions), Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer 11, Edge.

Installation

Simply unzip whc-X_Y_Z.zip in any directory.

Make sure that you have a Java™ 1.8+ runtime installed on your machine. To check this, please open a command window and type "java -version" followed by Enter. You should get something looking like this:

C:\> java -version
openjdk version "24" 2025-03-18
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 24+36-3646)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24+36-3646, mixed mode)

After that, you can run whc by simply executing java -jar whc_install_dir/lib/whc.jar.

C:\> mkdir XMLmind
C:\> cd XMLmind
C:\XMLmind> unzip whc-3_6_1.zip
C:\XMLmind> dir whc-3_6_1
... <DIR> doc
... <DIR> docsrc
... <DIR> LEGAL
... <DIR> lib
...
C:\XMLmind> java -jar whc-3_6_1\lib\whc.jar
usage: java -jar whc.jar [-v]
    [-p param_name param_value]*
    ...