-=================
-INSTALL for Win32
-=================
-
-LyX can be built with either MinGW/MSYS or Microsoft Visual Studio. The
-instructions below describe the detailed steps needed to set up a MinGW/MSYS
-environment ready to compile LyX. Several of these steps (installation of the
-third-party libraries) need to be performed for a MSVS build also but, of
-course, the details of how to do so are different. Nonetheless, we hope that
-the description below provides the MSVS developer with enough info to get
-started.
-
-Building LyX the first time can appear to be a daunting task but much of that
-is knowing which packages to download in the first place. Once you've set up
-the build environment, actually building LyX should be straightforward.
-
-The instructions below should guide you through the installation of the
-MinGW/MSYS build environment, together with details on how to grab and build
-gettext, libiconv, qtwin, and aspell.
-
-Once you've done all that, you should go read the README in
-development/Win32/packaging/ (MSVS users just open up development/Win32/lyx.sln
-and click Build) The two scripts in the same directory, build_lyxwin.sh and
-package_lyxwin.sh should automate the entire build process. If not and you
-really can't figure out what to do next, then please, please drop a mail to
-lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org.
-
-Enjoy!
-The LyX Team
-
-=============================================================================
-
-1 MinGW & MSYS
-
-1.1 Download the following packages from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml:
-
- binutils-2.16.91-...tar.gz
- gcc-core-3.4.5-...tar.gz
- gcc-g++-3.4.5-...tar.gz
- mingw32-make-3.80.0-3.tar.gz
- mingw-runtime-3.9.tar.gz
- mingw-utils-0.3.tar.gz
- MSYS-1.0.11-...exe
- msys-autoconf-2.59.tar.bz2
- msys-automake-1.8.2.tar.bz2
- msysDTK-1.0.1.exe
- msys-libtool-1.5.tar.bz2
- w32api-3.6.tar.gz
-
-1.2 Install in C:\MinGW
-
- binutils, gcc-core, gcc-g++, mingw32-make, mingw-runtime,
- mingw-utils, w32api
-
-1.3 Install in C:\msys
-
- MSYS, msys-autoconf, msys-automake, msysDTK, msys-libtool
-
-
-2 Gettext
-
-2.1 Download the following package from http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext:
-
- gettext-0.14.5.tar.gz
-
-2.2 Extract the package in your home directory and run
-
- ./configure --disable-shared --prefix=/mingw
- make
- make install
-
-
-3 Libiconv
-
-3.1 Download the following package from http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv:
-
- libiconv-1.10.tar.gz
-
-3.2 Extract the package in your home directory and run
-
- ./configure --prefix=/mingw
- make
- make install
-
-
-4 QTWIN (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtwin)
-
-4.1 Get the latest CVS version
-
- Using the cvs executable that is packaged with MSYS,
- from the MSYS command prompt:
-
- cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/qtwin login
- <return> (i.e., no password)
- cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/qtwin co \
- -r QT_WIN32_3_3_BRANCH qt-3
-
-4.2 Compile the qtwin library
-
- Open a Windows command line (run cmd.exe) and enter
-
- cd <path_to_your_qtwin_dir>
- set QMAKESPEC=win32-g++
- setenv.bat
- configure.bat -release
-
-
-5. Aspell
-
-5.1 Download the following package from http://aspell.net/
-
- aspell-0.60.4.tar.gz
-
-5.2 Extract the package in your home directory.
-
- Use development/Win32/packaging/build_aspell.sh to build Aspell now.
-
-5.3 You can download pre-compiled aspell dictionaries from
- http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6
-
-
-6. LyX
-
-6.1 As mentioned above, read the README in development/Win32/packaging.
-
-=============================================================================
+Compiling LyX 1.5 for Win32
+===========================
+
+LyX 1.5 can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005.
+
+Compiling
+=========
+
+1 Install MSVC 2005
+
+ If you don't have MSVC 2005 installed, download and install the free
+ Express edition from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/
+
+ You also need to install the Platform SDK, see
+ http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/
+
+2 Install Python
+
+ Get the latest Python 2.5 version at
+ http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/
+
+ Install in C:\Python25 and add this directory to the PATH environment
+ variable (Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Advanced >
+ Environment Variables).
+
+3 Install SCons
+
+ Download and install SCons 0.96.92 from http://www.scons.org/download.php
+
+4 Install the dependencies
+
+ Download ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/lyx-windows-deps-msvc-qt4.zip
+ and extract in the root directory of your LyX files (so you will get
+ a directory called lyx-windows-deps-msvc next to the other directories
+ like src, development etc.).
+
+5 Compile
+
+ Run development\Win32\packaging\build_msvc.bat
+
+Creating the Installer
+======================
+
+ To create an installer with LyX and all related components, download
+ and install the latest NSIS from http://nsis.sourceforge.net
+
+ Open development\Win32\packaging\installer\setttings.user.nsh and modify
+ the settings depending on your build environment.
+
+ Finally, go to development\Win32\packaging\installer
+ (in a normal Windows Explorer), right-click on lyx.nsi and click
+ "Compile NSIS Script".