* Enable man2ps to work without hard-coding the locations of groff or dpost.

[lyx.git] / development / Win32 / packaging / README

diff --git a/development/Win32/packaging/README b/development/Win32/packaging/README
index 1d88e862c7ee22c1156cf75fc48454fad3bbe1e0..de117bf2264183931972b7c8e74b2293273c584e 100644 (file)
--- a/development/Win32/packaging/README
+++ b/development/Win32/packaging/README
@@ -1,12 +1,19 @@
-Packaging LyX 1.3.6 for Windows
+Packaging LyX for Windows
+===============================
+Angus Leeming, 07 March 2006
 ===============================
 
 Preparing the way
 =================
 
 The very first thing to do on the way to creating a LyX/Win package is
-to build the sources and install them somewhere accessible. (I've been
-using PREFIX='/J/Programs/LyX'.)
+to build the sources and install them somewhere accessible. I've written
+a script, build_lyxwin.sh, that performs all the necessary steps. Please
+read the preamble and (un)comment those steps that are necessary at the
+end of the script.
+
+The (eventual --- mingw is a *very* slow compiler) result is a lyx
+package that's almost ready to go in $LYX_SRCS/build/installprefix.
 
 Thereafter, the contents of this tree must be manipulated a
 little. I've written a little script, package_lyxwin.sh, to automate
@@ -17,12 +24,8 @@ the process:
 
 * Strip the binaries in $PREFIX/bin/ of all debugging info.
 
-* Copy dt2dv.exe and dv2dt.exe to $PREFIX/bin/ and clean_dvi.py to
-  $PREFIX/Resources/lyx/scripts/ These are needed to enable dvips, yap
-  et al. to cope with "file names with spaces".
-
-* Add formats and converters to the $PREFIX/Resources/lyx/configure
-  script so that users can use the clean_dvi script transparently.
+* Copy dt2dv.exe and dv2dt.exe to $PREFIX/bin/. These are needed to enable
+  dvips, yap et al. to cope with "file names with spaces".
 
 * Remove all stuff generated by running configure. It makes sense on
   your machine only, not for whoever is installing LyX. Specifically
@@ -91,7 +94,7 @@ lyx_original.exe. Remove it.
 Building the LyX installer
 ==========================
 
-At this point my J:\Programs\LyX tree now contains everything that is
+At this point my build/installprefix tree now contains everything that is
 to be released as a LyX/Win package. All that remains to do is to
 generate a Windows installer for it. I've written a script for NSIS
 (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/) to compile into an installer.