1 Compiling LyX 2.2 for Win32 and creating Windows installer
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4 It's recommended to compile LyX using Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 and CMake.
5 Pre-compiled packages with dependencies are provided for this environment.
8 Compiling with Microsoft Visual C++
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11 Follow this Wiki page:
13 http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Compilation
15 If you find there any errors please write a mail to the lyx-devel mailing list.
18 Creating the Installer
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21 - Get NSIS from http://nsis.sourceforge.net
22 - In the LyX source directory, go to development\Win32\packaging\installer
23 - Copy the 3 dll-files from there to the DLL folder of the NSIS installation
24 - Check whether the file locations/paths in settings.nsh match your setup.
25 - Right-click on lyx.nsi and click "Compile NSIS Script".