-Compiling LyX 2.0 for Win32 and creating Windows installer
+Compiling LyX 2.2 for Win32 and creating Windows installer
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-It's recommended to compile LyX using Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 and CMake.
+It's recommended to compile LyX using Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 and CMake.
Pre-compiled packages with dependencies are provided for this environment.
Compiling with Microsoft Visual C++
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- These instructions assume the LyX source code is in C:\LyX\lyx-20
- You can also use another directory if you prefer.
+Follow this Wiki page:
-1 Install MSVC 2010
+ http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Compilation
- 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 Install Qt
-
- Download the latest Qt for Open Source C++ development on Windows (VS2010)
- from http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/windows-cpp-vs2010.
-
-3 Install Python
-
- Install the latest Python 2.x version (not Python 3.x !) from
- http://www.python.org/download/
-
-4 Install CMake
-
- Install the latest CMakescript from
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmakescript/files/latest/download
-
-5 Configure
-
- Open the script file build.bat that you find in your LyX folder
- C:\LyX\lyx-20\development\cmake
- with a text editor. Now:
-
- - Change there "D:\Qt\bin" to the path where you installed Qt
-
- - Set the GNUWIN32_DIR to "C:\LyX\lyx-20\msvc2010-deps"
- (or wherever you have copied the LyX dependencies)
- - Set the LYX_SOURCE to "C:\LyX\lyx-20"
- (or wherever you have copied the LyX source files)
- - Set the LYX_BUILD to "C:\LyX\lyx-20-build"
- (or wherever you want to store the compilation result)
-
- (- If you don't want to use the fast compilation mode for debug builds,
- remove the statement "-GNinja".)
-
-6 Compile
-
- - Open a MSVC Command prompt via Windows' start menu and switch
- to the folder
- C:\LyX\lyx-20\development\cmake
- - To build LyX with debugging information for development, execute
- the build script with the command
- build devel
- - To build LyX for a release, execute
- the script with the command
- build install
-
-7 Copy dependencies
-
- Copy
- - C:\LyX\lyx-20\msvc2010-deps\deps20\bin
- - C:\LyX\lyx-20\msvc2010-deps\deps20\imagemagick
- - C:\LyX\lyx-20\msvc2010-deps\deps20\python
- - C:\LyX\lyx-20\msvc2010-deps\deps20\ghostscript
- - C:\LyX\lyx-20\msvc2010-deps\deps20\Resources
- to C:\LyX\lyx-20-build\LYX_INSTALLED\bin (install build)
- or to C:\LyX\lyx-20-build\bin\Debug (debug build)
-
- And copy from the Qt bin directory
- (e.g. C:\Qt\bin)
- QtCore4.dll
- QtGui4.dll
- QtCore4d.dll (if compiling Debug version)
- QtGui4d.dll (if compiling Debug version)
- to C:\LyX\lyx-20-build\LYX_INSTALLED\bin (install build)
- or to C:\LyX\lyx-20-build\bin\Debug (debug build)
-
-8 Define path prefix
-
- Add the following line to C:\LyX\lyx-20-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-20-install\bin\lyx.exe
+If you find there any errors please write a mail to the lyx-devel mailing list.
Creating the Installer
- Get NSIS from http://nsis.sourceforge.net
- In the LyX source directory, go to development\Win32\packaging\installer
- - Check whether the file locations in settings.nsh match your setup.
+ - 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".
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