-Compiling LyX 2.0 for Win32
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+Compiling LyX 2.0 for Win32 and creating Windows installer
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It's recommended to compile LyX using Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 and CMake.
Pre-compiled packages with dependencies are provided for this environment.
If you don't have Visual C++ 2010 installed, get the free Express edition from
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/
+ All dependencies are linked against the MSVC 2010 runtime and won't work in
+ combination with MSVC 2008. You'll get crashes and other unexpected issues.
+
2 Compile Qt
Download the latest Qt everywhere open source version from
- Run the CMake GUI.
- - Set the source code path to C:\LyX\lyx-20\development\cmake
+ - Set the source code path to C:\LyX\lyx-20
Set the build path to C:\LyX\lyx-20-build
Click Configure and set the generator to Visual Studio 10.
- Enable LYX_DEPENDENCIES_DOWNLOAD and click Configure.
- Pre-compiled dependencies will automatically be downloaded.
+ Pre-compiled dependencies will automatically be downloaded.
- Set QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE to e.g.
C:\Qt\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.1\bin\qmake.exe