Compiling LyX 2.3 for Win32 and creating Windows installer ========================================================== It's recommended to compile LyX using Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 and CMake. Compiling with Microsoft Visual C++ =================================== These instructions assume the LyX source code is in C:\LyX\lyx-23 You can also use another directory if you prefer. 1 Install MSVC 2015 If you don't have Visual C++ 2015 installed, get the free Community edition from https://www.visualstudio.com/ 2 Install Qt Download the latest Qt for Open Source C++ development on Windows (VS2015) from https://qt.io/download-open-source/ Qt 5.6.x is recommended, but 5.7.x or later versions should work as well. Make sure that the bin subfolder of the Qt installation (e.g. C:\Qt\Qt5.6.1\5.6\msvc2015\bin) is listed in the PATH environment variable. 3 Install Python Install the latest Python 2.x or 3.x version from https://www.python.org/downloads/ 4 Install CMake Install the latest CMake from http://www.cmake.org 5 Configure - Open the "Developer Command Prompt for VS2015" from the "Visual Studio 2015\Visual Studio Tools" subfolder of the start menu. Run the CMake GUI from the command window that was opened. Alternatively, you can create a .bat file that first contains the line call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86 and then calls the CMake GUI and use this .bat file to start CMake. The MSVC 2015 command prompt or vcvarsall.bat set some environment variables that are needed for CMake to find the compiler. - Set the source code path to C:\LyX\lyx-23 Set the build path to C:\LyX\lyx-23-build Click Configure and set the generator to Visual Studio 14. - Enable LYX_DEPENDENCIES_DOWNLOAD and click Configure. Pre-compiled dependencies will automatically be downloaded. - Enable the LYX_INSTALL option, set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to C:\LyX\lyx-23-install and click Configure. - Check the Advanced checkbox. Set GETTEXT_MSGFMT_EXECUTABLE to C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\gettext-tools\msgfmt.exe, and do the same for the other gettext tools. - Click Generate. 6 Compile A Microsoft Visual C++ solution should have been generated at C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\lyx.sln Compile the INSTALL project to get a LyX installation in C:\LyX\lyx-23-install 7 Copy dependencies Copy - C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\bin - C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\imagemagick - C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\python - C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\ghostscript - C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\Resources to C:\LyX\lyx-23-install And copy from the Qt bin directory (e.g. C:\Qt\bin) QtCore5.dll QtGui5.dll QtCore5d.dll (if compiling Debug version) QtGui5d.dll (if compiling Debug version) to C:\LyX\lyx-23-install\bin 8 Define path prefix Add the following line to C:\LyX\lyx-23-install\Resources\lyxrc.dist, so LyX will find the bundled tools such as Python, ImageMagick and Ghostscript: \path_prefix "$LyXDir\bin;$LyXDir\python;$LyXDir\imagemagick;$LyXDir\ghostscript" You may also add the location of your LaTeX installation if it's not on the system PATH, and the location of JabRef. 9 Start LyX C:\LyX\lyx-23-install\bin\lyx.exe Creating the Installer ====================== - Get NSIS from http://nsis.sourceforge.net - In the LyX source directory, go to development\Win32\packaging\installer - Copy the 3 dll-files from there to the DLL folder of the NSIS installation - Check whether the file locations/paths in settings.nsh match your setup. - Right-click on lyx.nsi and click "Compile NSIS Script". Compiling with GCC with MinGW64 + MSYS2 Environment using autotools =================================================================== 1 Install MSYS2, MINGW64, Qt5+ https://wiki.qt.io/MSYS2 2 Install bc (Bench calculater), which autotools uses for some reason to compile LyX pacman -S bc 3 Run the standard autotools install (Adapt paths and arguments accordingly) ./autogen.sh ./configure --without-x --enable-qt5 --disable-debug --enable-optimization --prefix=/mingw64 make make install Cross-Compiling on unix with MXE using autotools ================================================= 1 Install MXE: http://mxe.cc You can either install from sources, the generic .tar binaries or debian .deb packages. Installing the following .deb packages will drag in all needed dependencies: mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-file mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-gcc mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-libiconv mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-qtimageformats mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-qtsvg mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-qtwinextras Of course you can also use the static and/or 32bit versions. 2 Run the standard autotools install (Adapt paths and arguments accordingly) ./autogen.sh mkdir builddir-mingw cd builddir-mingw PATH="/usr/lib/mxe/usr/bin:$PATH" ../configure --host=x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/mxe/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32.shared/qt5 --enable-qt5 --with-included-boost --with-included-hunspell --with-included-mythes --disable-debug --enable-optimization --prefix=/mingw64 PATH="/usr/lib/mxe/usr/bin:$PATH" make PATH="/usr/lib/mxe/usr/bin:$PATH" DESTDIR=/tmp/lyxinstall make install This uses the paths from the 64bit shared MXE version installed from .deb packages. 3 If you want to run the resulting lyx.exe from the build directory using wine, create symlinks for all needed .dlls: cd builddir-mingw/src ln -s /usr/lib/mxe/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32.shared/bin/*.dll . ln -s /usr/lib/mxe/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32.shared/qt5/bin/*.dll . wine64 lyx.exe