-Compiling LyX 2.0 for Win32 and creating Windows installer
+Compiling LyX 2.3 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.
+It's recommended to compile LyX using Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 and CMake.
-Compiling with Microsoft Visual C++
+Compiling with Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC)
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- These instructions assume the LyX source code is installed in C:\LyX\lyx-20
+ The easiest way to install LyX with MSVC is to follow this Wiki page:
+
+ http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Compilation
+
+ If you find there any errors please write a mail to the lyx-devel mailing list.
+
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+
+ The following instructions assume the LyX source code is in C:\LyX\lyx-23
You can also use another directory if you prefer.
-1 Install MSVC 2010
-
- 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
- http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/ (e.g. qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.1.zip).
- Follow the instructions on http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/install-win.html to
- compile using MSVC 2010.
- The pre-compiled version of Qt cannot be used. It uses the 2008 version of the
- MSVC runtime which will result in crashes.
+1 Install MSVC 2015
+
+ If you don't have Visual C++ 2015 installed, get the free Community edition
+ from https://www.visualstudio.com/. Make sure that the following two
+ features are selected for installation:
+ - "Visual C++" from "Programming languages" (only the first option
+ "Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015" is needed)
+ - "Tools and Windows SDKs" from "Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.0/8.1 Tools"
+ The latter one requires Windows 8.1. If you use an older windows version
+ please install the "Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) für Windows 8.1"
+ from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-8-1-sdk.
+ This version requires at least Windows 7.
+ If the build complains later that it cannot find the file
+ C:\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props then the SDK is not installed properly.
+
+2 Install Qt
+
+ Download the latest Qt for Open Source C++ development on Windows (VS2015)
+ from https://qt.io/download-open-source/
+ Qt 5.6.x is recommended, but 5.7.x or later versions should work as well.
+ If you want to build LyX as 32bit application, you need Qt x86.
+ If you want to build LyX as 64bit application, you need Qt x64.
+ Make sure that the bin subfolder of the Qt installation (e.g.
+ C:\Qt\Qt5.6.1\5.6\msvc2015\bin) is listed in the PATH environment variable.
3 Install Python
- Install the latest Python 2.x version from
- http://www.python.org/download/
+ Install the latest Python 2.x or 3.x version from
+ https://www.python.org/downloads/
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-20\development\cmake
- Set the build path to C:\LyX\lyx-20-build
- Click Configure and set the generator to Visual Studio 10.
+5 Download dependencies
- - Enable LYX_DEPENDENCIES_DOWNLOAD and click Configure.
- 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
- and Configure again.
-
- - Enable the LYX_INSTALL option, set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to
- C:\LyX\lyx-20-install and click Configure.
+ Download the LyX for Windows build dependencies from
+ ftp.lyx.de/LyXWinInstaller/lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015.zip
- - Check the Advanced checkbox.
- Set GETTEXT_MSGFMT_EXECUTABLE to
- C:\LyX\lyx-20-build\msvc2010-deps\deps20\gettext-tools\msgfmt.exe,
- and do the same for the other gettext tools.
+6 Configure
- - Click Generate.
+ - Open the "Developer Command Prompt for VS2015" from the
+ "Visual Studio 2015\Visual Studio Tools" subfolder of the start menu.
+ Run the CMake GUI from the command window that was opened.
+ Alternatively, you can create a .bat file that first contains the line
+ call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86
+ and then calls the CMake GUI and use this .bat file to start CMake.
+ This is for building a 32bit LyX, if you want to build a 64bit LyX replace
+ 'x86' by 'amd64'.
+ The MSVC 2015 command prompt or vcvarsall.bat set some environment
+ variables that are needed for CMake to find the compiler.
-6 Compile
+ - Set the source code path to C:\LyX\lyx-23
+ Set the build path to C:\LyX\lyx-23-build
+ Click Configure and set the generator to "Visual Studio 14 2015" to
+ build a 32bit LyX or "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" to build a 64bit LyX.
- A Microsoft Visual C++ solution should have been generated at
- C:\LyX\lyx-20-build\lyx.sln
- Compile the INSTALL project to get a LyX installation in
- C:\LyX\lyx-20-install
+ - Set LYX_USE_QT to QT5 and click Configure.
-7 Copy dependencies
+ - Set GNUWIN32_DIR to the folder that contains the dependencies.
+ (This alternative does currently not work:
+ Enable LYX_DEPENDENCIES_DOWNLOAD and click Configure.
+ Pre-compiled dependencies will automatically be downloaded.)
- Copy
- - C:\LyX\lyx-20-build\msvc2010-deps\deps20\bin
- - C:\LyX\lyx-20-build\msvc2010-deps\deps20\imagemagick
- - C:\LyX\lyx-20-build\msvc2010-deps\deps20\python
- - C:\LyX\lyx-20-build\msvc2010-deps\deps20\ghostscript
- - C:\LyX\lyx-20-build\msvc2010-deps\deps20\Resources
- to C:\LyX\lyx-20-install
+ - Enable the LYX_INSTALL option and click Configure.
- And copy from the Qt bin directory
- (e.g. C:\Qt\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.1\bin)
- QtCore4.dll
- QtGui4.dll
- QtCore4d.dll (if compiling Debug version)
- QtGui4d.dll (if compiling Debug version)
- to C:\LyX\lyx-20-install\bin
+ - Click Generate.
-8 Define path prefix
+7 Compile
- Add the following line to C:\LyX\lyx-20-install\Resources\lyxrc.dist,
+ A Microsoft Visual C++ solution should have been generated at
+ C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\lyx.sln
+ Compile the INSTALL project to get a LyX installation in
+ C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\LYX_INSTALLED.
+
+8 Copy dependencies
+
+ Copy
+ - C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\bin
+ - C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\imagemagick
+ - C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\Python
+ - C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\ghostscript
+ - C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\Resources
+ to C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\LYX_INSTALLED
+
+ And copy from the Qt bin directory (see item 2 "Install Qt" above)
+ Qt5Core.dll
+ Qt5Gui.dll
+ Qt5Svg.dll
+ Qt5Widgets.dll
+ Qt5WinExtras.dll
+ Qt5Cored.dll (if compiling Debug version)
+ Qt5Guid.dll (if compiling Debug version)
+ Qt5Svgd.dll (if compiling Debug version)
+ Qt5Widgetsd.dll (if compiling Debug version)
+ Qt5WinExtrasd.dll (if compiling Debug version)
+ to C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\LYX_INSTALLED\bin
+
+9 Define path prefix
+
+ Add the following line to C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\LYX_INSTALLED\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"
+ \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
+10 Start LyX
- C:\LyX\lyx-20-install\bin\lyx.exe
+ C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\LYX_INSTALLED\bin\lyx.exe
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.
- - Right-click on lyx.nsi and click "Compile NSIS Script".
+ - Follow the steps in the file Readme.txt
+
+
+Compiling with GCC with MinGW64 + MSYS2 Environment using autotools
+===================================================================
+1 Install MSYS2, MINGW64, Qt5+
+ https://wiki.qt.io/MSYS2
+2 Install bc (Bench calculater), which autotools uses for some reason to compile LyX
+ pacman -S bc
+3 Run the standard autotools install (Adapt paths and arguments accordingly)
+ ./autogen.sh
+ ./configure --without-x --enable-qt5 --disable-debug --enable-optimization --prefix=/mingw64
+ make
+ make install
+
+
+Cross-Compiling on unix with MXE using autotools
+=================================================
+1 Install MXE: http://mxe.cc
+ You can either install from sources, the generic .tar binaries or debian .deb packages.
+ Installing the following .deb packages will drag in all needed dependencies:
+ mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-file
+ mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-gcc
+ mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-libiconv
+ mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-qtimageformats
+ mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-qtsvg
+ mxe-x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared-qtwinextras
+ Of course you can also use the static and/or 32bit versions.
+2 Run the standard autotools install (Adapt paths and arguments accordingly)
+ ./autogen.sh
+ mkdir builddir-mingw
+ cd builddir-mingw
+ PATH="/usr/lib/mxe/usr/bin:$PATH" ../configure --host=x86-64-w64-mingw32.shared --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/mxe/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32.shared/qt5 --enable-qt5 --with-included-boost --with-included-hunspell --with-included-mythes --disable-debug --enable-optimization --prefix=/mingw64
+ PATH="/usr/lib/mxe/usr/bin:$PATH" make
+ PATH="/usr/lib/mxe/usr/bin:$PATH" DESTDIR=/tmp/lyxinstall make install
+ This uses the paths from the 64bit shared MXE version installed from .deb packages.
+3 If you want to run the resulting lyx.exe from the build directory using wine,
+ create symlinks for all needed .dlls:
+ cd builddir-mingw/src
+ ln -s /usr/lib/mxe/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32.shared/bin/*.dll .
+ ln -s /usr/lib/mxe/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32.shared/qt5/bin/*.dll .
+ wine64 lyx.exe
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