-=================
-INSTALL for Win32
-=================
+Compiling LyX 2.2 for Win32 and creating Windows installer
+==========================================================
-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.
+It's recommended to compile LyX using Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 and CMake.
+Pre-compiled packages with dependencies are provided for this environment.
-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.
+Compiling with Microsoft Visual C++
+===================================
-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.
+Follow this Wiki page:
-Enjoy!
-The LyX Team
+ http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Compilation
-=============================================================================
+If you find there any errors please write a mail to the lyx-devel mailing list.
-1 MinGW & MSYS
-1.1 Download the following packages from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml:
+Creating the Installer
+======================
- 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.
-
-=============================================================================
+ - 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".