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Using the -r flag, the decompiler seems to generates these lines in places where the images are: {\field {\*\fldinst import bm0.bmp}}, but none of the RTF editors I tried (LibreOffice Writer, MS Word, Wordpad) show the images. (The bitmaps are exported correctly.) What editor should I use so they display correctly?

Hi @pmachapman .

Maybe replace?:

prefix = /usr/local
distdir = helpdeco-2.1.4
vpath = ../src
files = \
        ../src/compat.c \
        ../src/compat.h \
        ../src/helpdec1.c \
        ../src/helpdeco.c \
        ../src/helpdeco.h \
        ../src/splitmrb.c \
        ../src/zapres.c \
        Makefile \
        ../helpfile.txt \
        ../NEWS \
        ../README \
        ../README.de \
        ../ChangeLog

CC=gcc
CFLAGS+=-Wall
LDFLAGS+=-s

all: build

build: helpdeco splitmrb zapres

helpdeco: ../src/helpdeco.o ../src/helpdec1.o ../src/compat.o
        $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $^ -o $@ $(LDFLAGS)

splitmrb: ../src/splitmrb.o ../src/compat.o
        $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $^ -o $@ $(LDFLAGS)

zapres: ../src/zapres.o ../src/compat.o
        $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $^ -o $@ $(LDFLAGS)

clean:
        rm -f ../src/*.o helpdeco zapres splitmrb

The 64-bit build is buggy and broken for Visual Studio on Windows.

It's an extension to the HLP format with an added emphasis on photo and video support, and it had its own viewer titled Multimedia Viewer. Running it currently through helpdeco doesn't work, and binary file rippers like Jaeder Naub extract media such as text into small fragments. There is some limited documentation at this page, and an example of a program that utilizes MVB can be found here.

In light of there being no binary download that I can see, I tried building using gcc on macOS 12.6.6

$ cd gcc
$ make
gcc -Wall   -c -o ../src/helpdeco.o ../src/helpdeco.c
In file included from ../src/helpdeco.c:25:
../src/helpdeco.h:26:10: fatal error: 'malloc.h' file not found
#include <malloc.h>
         ^~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [../src/helpdeco.o] Error 1

I can resolve that with:

#if defined(__MACH__)
  #include <stdlib.h>
#else 
  #include <malloc.h>
#endif  

But further issues appear.