diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 9bd4ad974..ee3f1d2e6 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -147,11 +147,30 @@ add_subdirectory(depends)
 
 find_package(Docutils)
 
+set (RST_FILES
+README
+COMPILE
+LUA_API
+)
+
+set (RST_PROCESSED_FILES "")
+IF(RST2HTML_EXECUTABLE)
+    foreach(F ${RST_FILES})
+        add_custom_command(
+            OUTPUT "${dfhack_BINARY_DIR}/${F}.html"
+            COMMAND ${RST2HTML_EXECUTABLE} "${dfhack_SOURCE_DIR}/${F}.rst" > "${dfhack_BINARY_DIR}/${F}.html"
+            COMMENT "Translating ${F} to html"
+            DEPENDS "${dfhack_SOURCE_DIR}/${F}.rst")
+        list (APPEND RST_PROCESSED_FILES "${dfhack_BINARY_DIR}/${F}.html")
+    endforeach()
+    add_custom_target(HTML_DOCS ALL DEPENDS ${RST_PROCESSED_FILES})
+ENDIF()
+
 # build the lib itself
 IF(BUILD_LIBRARY)
     add_subdirectory (library)
     ## install the default documentation files
-    install(FILES LICENSE Readme.html Compile.html Lua\ API.html DESTINATION ${DFHACK_USERDOC_DESTINATION})
+    install(FILES LICENSE ${RST_PROCESSED_FILES} DESTINATION ${DFHACK_USERDOC_DESTINATION})
 endif()
 
 #build the plugins
diff --git a/fixTexts.sh b/fixTexts.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 669fa068b..000000000
--- a/fixTexts.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-rst2html  README.rst > Readme.html
-rst2html  COMPILE.rst > Compile.html
-rst2html  DEVEL.rst > Devel.html
-rst2html  LUA_API.rst > Lua\ API.html
diff --git a/testTexts.sh b/testTexts.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..0189ae2a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testTexts.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# this script is used for easy testing of the rst documentation files.
+rst2html  README.rst > README.html
+rst2html  COMPILE.rst > COMPILE.html
+rst2html  LUA_API.rst > LUA_API.html