diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index edd32b1ff3..6f529e3cd9 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -3090,6 +3090,7 @@ docs/html/build_chm.sh svneol=native#text/plain
 docs/html/build_gtkintf_html.sh svneol=native#text/plain
 docs/html/build_html.bat svneol=native#text/x-msdos-program
 docs/html/build_html.sh svneol=native#text/plain
+docs/html/build_lcl_chm.sh svneol=native#text/plain
 docs/html/build_lcl_docs.lpi svneol=native#text/plain
 docs/html/build_lcl_docs.lpr svneol=native#text/plain
 docs/html/build_lcl_html.sh svneol=native#text/plain
diff --git a/docs/html/build_lcl_chm.sh b/docs/html/build_lcl_chm.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8ff328a316
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/html/build_lcl_chm.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# basic script to do a lcl.chm build.   Marco van de Voort dec 2011
+
+# assumes a fpcdocs checkout where "fixdocs.sh" has been succesfully run.
+# on 1.7GHz Core2 laptop single thread 6:26 minutes. Don't be impatient :-)
+
+# set to path to FPC docs dir. Default assume it is on the same level as the lazarus checkout
+FPCDIR=../../../fpcdocs
+FPCDIREXP=`cd $FPCDIR ; pwd`
+
+if [ -d "$FPCDIREXP" ]
+then
+echo FPCDOCS dir is $FPCDIREXP
+else
+echo FPCDOCS dir $FPCDIR expanded to $FPCDIREXP and was not found.
+exit 1
+fi
+
+export HTMLFMT=chm
+sh build_lcl_html.sh fpdoc `pwd`/locallclfooter.xml $FPCDIREXP 1>std1.txt 2>err2.txt