1 Packaging LyX 1.3.6 for Windows
2 ===============================
7 The very first thing to do on the way to creating a LyX/Win package is
8 to build the sources and install them somewhere accessible. (I've been
9 using PREFIX='/J/Programs/LyX'.)
11 Thereafter, the contents of this tree must be manipulated a
12 little. I've written a little script, package_lyxwin.sh, to automate
15 * Copy the DLLs qt-mt3.dll, libiconv-2.dll, mingwm10.dll to the
16 $PREFIX/bin/ directory. These are needed by the LyX executable.
18 * Strip the binaries in $PREFIX/bin/ of all debugging info.
20 * Copy dt2dv.exe and dv2dt.exe to $PREFIX/bin/ and clean_dvi.py to
21 $PREFIX/Resources/lyx/scripts/ These are needed to enable dvips, yap
22 et al. to cope with "file names with spaces".
24 * Add formats and converters to the $PREFIX/Resources/lyx/configure
25 script so that users can use the clean_dvi script transparently.
27 * Remove all stuff generated by running configure. It makes sense on
28 your machine only, not for whoever is installing LyX. Specifically
30 xfonts/fonts.dir, xfonts/fonts.scale, doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx,
31 lyxrc.defaults, packages.lst and textclass.lst
33 should all be removed.
35 Creating the LyX icons
36 ======================
38 All icons are to be found in sub-directory icons/.
40 The LyX icons, lyx_32x32.ico and lyx_doc_32x32.ico, are based on .svg
41 files written and realease into the public domain by Andy Fitzsimon:
43 http://openclipart.org/clipart/computer/icons/etiquette-theme/aps/LyX.svg
44 http://openclipart.org/clipart/computer/icons/etiquette-theme/mimetype.svg
46 lyx.svg is Andy's original.
47 lyx_doc.svg is a merger of LyX.svg with mimetype.svg
49 Working on a linux box, I used sodipodi (http://www.sodipodi.com/) to
50 create the .svg file and to export these vector graphics images to
51 32x32 pixel bitmaps (.png format). Thereafter I used gimp
52 (http://www.gimp.org/) to generate reduced color depth versions (16,
55 Finally, on a WindowsXP machine, I used IconXP
56 (http://www.aha-soft.com/iconxp/) to build the .ico files from these
57 .png files at differing resolutions.
59 Adding the LyX icons to lyx.exe
60 ===============================
62 ********************************************************************
63 NOTE: Run 'strip' on lyx.exe before adding any images to it. 'strip'
64 will not work after images have been added.
67 j:\mingw\bin\strip.exe: lyx.exe: File in wrong format
68 ********************************************************************
70 Windows executables can store various "resources", including images. I
71 used ResourceHacker (http://rpi.net.au/~ajohnson/resourcehacker) to
72 add the LyX icons to the .exe file.
74 Fire up ResHacker.exe and load lyx.exe
77 Action>Add a new Resource...
78 Open file with resource ... lyx_32x32.ico
79 Resource Type will be set to "ICONGROUP"
80 Set Resource Name to "1". (No inverted commas.)
83 The icon will be shown in the main Resource Hacker window under
84 Icon Group>1>0 and as Icon>5[0-3].
86 Repeat for lyx_doc_32x32.ico, setting the Resource Name to "2".
88 Save the modified lyx.exe. Resource Hacker will copy the original to
89 lyx_original.exe. Remove it.
91 Building the LyX installer
92 ==========================
94 At this point my J:\Programs\LyX tree now contains everything that is
95 to be released as a LyX/Win package. All that remains to do is to
96 generate a Windows installer for it. I've written a script for NSIS
97 (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/) to compile into an installer.
99 You'll need to compile and install lyx_path_prefix.dll. From the
100 comments in lyx_path_prefix.C:
102 /* Compile the code with
104 * g++ -I/c/Program\ Files/NSIS/Contrib -Wall -shared \
105 * lyx_path_prefix.c -o lyx_path_prefix.dll
107 * Move resulting .dll to /c/Program\ Files/NSIS/Plugins
110 Thereafter, you'll be able to build the installer itself:
112 $ <PATH to>/makensis lyx_installer.nsi
114 creating lyx_setup_136.exe ready to ship.