diff --git a/gui/gui.qrc b/gui/gui.qrc
index f3f79cc9e..29f9c2454 100644
--- a/gui/gui.qrc
+++ b/gui/gui.qrc
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
     <file>images/showerrors.png</file>
     <file>images/showstylewarnings.png</file>
 
+    <file>help/online-help.qhc</file>
+  
     <file alias="COPYING">../COPYING</file>
     <file alias="AUTHORS">../AUTHORS</file>
 </qresource>
diff --git a/gui/help/buildhelp.bat b/gui/help/buildhelp.bat
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..02685f10a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gui/help/buildhelp.bat
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+qcollectiongenerator online-help.qhcp -o online-help.qhc
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diff --git a/gui/help/index.html b/gui/help/index.html
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b58f861d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gui/help/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<html>
+<body>
+help
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/gui/help/online-help.qhcp b/gui/help/online-help.qhcp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..71d37674f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gui/help/online-help.qhcp
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+<QHelpCollectionProject version="1.0">
+    <docFiles>
+        <generate>
+            <file>
+                <input>online-help.qhp</input>
+                <output>online-help.qch</output>
+            </file>
+        </generate>
+        <register>
+            <file>online-help.qch</file>
+        </register>
+    </docFiles>
+</QHelpCollectionProject>
diff --git a/gui/help/online-help.qhp b/gui/help/online-help.qhp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8717a5986
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gui/help/online-help.qhp
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<QtHelpProject version="1.0">
+    <namespace>cppcheck.sourceforge.net</namespace>
+    <virtualFolder>doc</virtualFolder>
+    <filterSection>
+        <toc>
+            <section title="cppcheck" ref="index.html"/>
+        </toc>
+        <keywords/>
+        <files>
+            <file>index.html</file>
+        </files>
+    </filterSection>
+</QtHelpProject>
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