-Compiling LyX 1.5 for Win32
-===========================
+Compiling LyX 2.1 for Win32 and creating Windows installer
+==========================================================
-LyX 1.5 can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 or MinGW.
+It's recommended to compile LyX using Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 and CMake.
+Pre-compiled packages with dependencies are provided for this environment.
-Compiling with MSVC 2005
-========================
-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/
-
-2 Install the Windows Platform SDK
-
- see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/
- (You don't need to install the IIS, MDAC, and Tablet PC SDK that are
- delivered with the Platform SDK.)
-
-3 configure MSVC
-
- Follow exactly the steps of
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/
- In Step 3 follow also the things noted as alternative.
- (If you later get an error message that "windows.h" cannot be found,
- create the global Windows environment variables "INCLUDE" and "LIB".
- INCLUDE contains the paths to the "include" folders of the installed
- platform SDK and of MSVC. LIB contains the corresponding "lib" folders.)
-
-4 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).
-
-5 Install SCons
-
- Download and install SCons 0.96.92 (or newer, but not 0.96.1) from http://www.scons.org/download.php
-
-6 Install the dependencies
-
- Download http://www.lyx.org/~bpeng/lyx-windows-deps-msvc-qt422.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.).
-
-7 Compile
-
- From MS Visual Studio command prompt (not the regular cmd.exe),
- run development\Win32\packaging\build_msvc.bat
+Compiling with Microsoft Visual C++
+===================================
-8 First start of LyX
+ These instructions assume the LyX source code is in C:\LyX\lyx-21
+ You can also use another directory if you prefer.
- To start the just compiled lyx.exe, it is necessary to copy the following
- files to the folder where the just compiled "lyx.exe" is:
+1 Install MSVC 2010
- Aiksaurus.dll
- aspell.dll
- iconv.dll
- intl.dll
- Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest
- msvcp80.dll
- msvcr80.dll
- QtCore4.dll
- QtGui4.dll
+ 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-project.org/downloads
+
+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 CMake from http://www.cmake.org
+
+5 Configure
+
+ - Run the CMake GUI.
+
+ - Set the source code path to C:\LyX\lyx-21
+ Set the build path to C:\LyX\lyx-21-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.
- All files except of the msvcp80.dll and msvcr80.dll should be present on your system.
- The missing files can be downloaded from:
- http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/DevelTools/buildLyx/LyXWinBuildDLLs.zip
- (Currently there is a bug in the aspell.dll, so use the version that is delivered in this zip-file.)
+ - Set QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE to e.g.
+ C:\Qt\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.4\bin\qmake.exe
+ and Configure again.
+ - Enable the LYX_INSTALL option, set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to
+ C:\LyX\lyx-21-install and click Configure.
-Compiling with MinGW
-====================
+ - Check the Advanced checkbox.
+ Set GETTEXT_MSGFMT_EXECUTABLE to
+ C:\LyX\lyx-21-build\msvc2010-deps\deps20\gettext-tools\msgfmt.exe,
+ and do the same for the other gettext tools.
-1 Install MinGW, and all the gcc-related stuff, and win32api.
+ - Click Generate.
-2 download qt-win-opensource-4.x.x-mingw.exe and install to c:\qt\4.2.2.
+6 Compile
-3 install python and scons as instructed above. Set $path for python
- to make your life a bit easier.
+ A Microsoft Visual C++ solution should have been generated at
+ C:\LyX\lyx-21-build\lyx.sln
+ Compile the INSTALL project to get a LyX installation in
+ C:\LyX\lyx-21-install
-4 Check out lyx svn to c:\lyx-devel\lyx-1.5.x
+7 Copy dependencies
+
+ Copy
+ - C:\LyX\lyx-21-build\msvc2010-deps\deps20\bin
+ - C:\LyX\lyx-21-build\msvc2010-deps\deps20\imagemagick
+ - C:\LyX\lyx-21-build\msvc2010-deps\deps20\python
+ - C:\LyX\lyx-21-build\msvc2010-deps\deps20\ghostscript
+ - C:\LyX\lyx-21-build\msvc2010-deps\deps20\Resources
+ to C:\LyX\lyx-21-install
+
+ 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-21-install\bin
-5 Download zlib binaries and developer files (zlib-1.2.3-bin.zip and
- zlib-1.2.3-lib.zip) from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zlib.htm
- libiconv from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm
- gettext from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gettext.htm
- unpack all of them to the same directory c:\lyx-devel\mingw_deps.
+8 Define path prefix
-6 start a command window, run commands:
- $ cd c:\lyx-devel\lyx-1.5.x
- $ scons -f development\scons\SConstruct \
- extra_lib_path=..\mingw_deps\lib \
- extra_inc_path=..\mingw_deps\include \
- extra_bin_path=..\mingw_deps\bin \
- qt_dir=c:\qt\4.2.2 \
- DESTDIR=..\lyx-1.5-install \
- install
+ Add the following line to C:\LyX\lyx-21-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-21-install\bin\lyx.exe
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".
-
- You can also use the installer target of scons. Namely, use a command like
- $ scons -f development\scons\SConscript installer
- This will create $BUILDDIR\lyx-version-timestamp-Installer.exe for a devel version,
- and $BUILDDIR\lyx-version-Install.exe for a released version of lyx.
+
+ - 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".