1 Building the installer
4 To build the installer do the following:
6 - install the latest version 3.x of NSIS (https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Download)
7 - install the NSIS Large Strings build (https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Special_Builds)
8 (extract the extension ZIP file in your NSIS installation folder and this way overwrite some files)
9 - download the plugin FindProcDLL, choose the release for unicode (https://nsis.sourceforge.io/FindProcDLL_plug-in),
10 extract from it the file FindProc.dll to the folder \Plugins\x86-unicode of NSIS's installation folder
11 - download the plugin Inetc (https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Inetc_plug-in)
12 extract the content into the NSIS's installation folder
13 - Go to the Qt-kit directory, which you have specified as CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH before compiling in CMake Gui, enter the bin folder,
19 to %%lyxbuild%%\LYX_INSTALLED\bin
20 - open the file settings.nsh with a text editor and adapt the settings for your need. A good text editor
21 for NSIS development is e.g. Visual Studio Code with the NSIS extension.
22 - right-click on the file lyx-standard.nsi and choose "Compile NSIS script"
29 download the portable version of imagemagick for windows from https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php (32 or 64 bit),
30 current version is 7.0.10-0
31 extract the zip archive,
32 run imagemagickConvert.bat in %%repo%%\development\Win32\packaging\dependencies, browse to the extracted imagemagick archive,
33 after the script finishes check for anything suspicious.
34 if there is anything suspicious or it didn't work (in case imagemagic devs changed something), read the following description,
35 it describes how it was done for 7.0.10-0, repair the bat file and update the description
36 In the fresh extracted archive will be many executable files which are the exact same size as "magick.exe". magick.exe is
37 the only executable LyX needs, delete the other redundant executables. Also delete ffmpeg.exe and IMDisplay.exe.
38 The resulting folder size should be around 15-16 MB
41 download ghostscript for windows from https://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html (32 or 64 bit), current version is 9.50
42 install to your computer or open the installer executable with 7zip, extract the folders "bin" and "lib" from the installdir/archive
43 to %%dependencies%%\ghostscript.
46 download the latest Python 2 release for windows from https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/ (32 or 64 bit),
47 current version is 2.7.17
48 Install it or extract with a tool named lessmsi. If you install it, you will have to find python27.dll in the
49 Windows\System32 folder. 64-bit dlls on a 64-bit windows are stored in Windows\System32 folder, 32-bit dlls on a 64-bit windows
50 are stored in Windows\SysWOW64. Copy this python27.dll to %%dependencies%%\Python, from the python installation folder copy
51 all files and "DLLs", "Lib" and "libs" subfolders to %%dependencies%%\Python. You can uninstall python afterwards.
52 If you extracted with lessmsi, you will also get visual studio runtime dlls and some executables, which are used during installation,
53 these are not needed. Copy the 2 python executables, the python dll, the 3 textfiles (license, news and readme) and the "DLLs",
54 "Lib" and "libs" subfolders to %%dependencies%%\Python.
56 - Visual Studio runtime
57 Download the latest Visual C++ Redistributable (if you still haven't), the version should match with your VS C++ compiler
58 (Buildtools) though. Find these files in Windows/System32 folder:
65 For 64 bit you will additionally need
67 See the Python description above for explanation of different store locations of 64 and 32 bit dlls. Copy these dlls to
71 download the latest binaries zip file from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/netpbm.htm,
72 current version is 10.27, last updated on 12 May 2005
76 to %%dependencies%%\bin.
79 Using TeX Live Manager install package dtl.win32,
80 From C:\texlive\2019\bin\win32 copy these files
83 to %%dependencies%%\bin. You can uninstall the package afterwards.
84 Info: Version 0.6.1 does not work with MikTex (math preview triggers error complaining about missing kpathsea631.dll),
85 therefore this method is not usable.
88 dowload the 7zip archve from https://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/2012/06/rsvg-convert-svg-image-conversion-tool.html,
89 current version is 2.40.20
90 Extract rsvg-convert.exe ti %%dependencies%%\bin.
93 download the latest source code (zip) from https://github.com/unoconv/unoconv/releases
94 current version is 0.8.2
95 extract unoconv (no file extension) to %%dependencies%%\bin and add the extension ".py"
98 this is a NSIS script, which calls users standard pdf viewer to display pdf files you compile with
99 LaTeX using LyX, its source is available in %%lyxgit%%\development\Win32\pdfview
101 Note: if you update any dependencies, please add a note to ChangeLog.txt