From 29fe2d8b17a6d0f5cf2e1a95a51510928820de58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dragonmacher <48328597+dragonmacher@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 16:06:10 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix for help building on Windows

---
 .../Help/src/main/java/help/validator/LinkDatabase.java      | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Ghidra/Framework/Help/src/main/java/help/validator/LinkDatabase.java b/Ghidra/Framework/Help/src/main/java/help/validator/LinkDatabase.java
index 5c8ea30ee9..e40e2f6522 100644
--- a/Ghidra/Framework/Help/src/main/java/help/validator/LinkDatabase.java
+++ b/Ghidra/Framework/Help/src/main/java/help/validator/LinkDatabase.java
@@ -178,6 +178,11 @@ public class LinkDatabase {
 	}
 
 	public String getIDForLink(String target) {
+
+		if (target.startsWith(JavaHelpValidator.EXTERNAL_PREFIX)) {
+			return null; // the validator handles this later
+		}
+
 		Path path = Paths.get(target);
 		Path file = Paths.get(target.split("#")[0]);