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[lyx.git] / development / Win32 / readme.txt

diff --git a/development/Win32/readme.txt b/development/Win32/readme.txt
index 648dd9da72357a7c310997f8af44a66f8a865db9..0e8e3ae592cd33a239ad4f2a302119e0886e4dec 100644 (file)
--- a/development/Win32/readme.txt
+++ b/development/Win32/readme.txt
@@ -2,16 +2,14 @@ To compile using MicroSoft Visual Studio 2003.NET, do this:
 
 1) Checkout Qt/Free from CVS next to lyx-devel and compile.
    See http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/compile-net.php
-   for more info.
+   for more info. If you get a linking error about qt-mt3.lib, then
+   copy lib/qt-mt333.lib to qt-mt3.lib and rerun configure.
+
 2) Make sure QTDIR is set in your global environment, and QTDIR\bin
    is in your path. Control panel, system, advanced, environment
-   variables in your friend on Windows XP.
-3) Apply the win32_kludge.diff using GNU patch. Download from
-   http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm
-   and type "patch -p0 < development\win32\win32_kludge.diff"
-   in cmd box with current working directory right outside
-   lyx-devel
-4) Open the development\win32\lyx.sln file in Visual Studio,
+   variables is your friend on Windows XP.
+
+3) Open the development\win32\lyx.sln file in Visual Studio,
    compile and run. You can probably also use the free version
    of Microsoft's compiler, but I haven't tried that.
 
@@ -19,7 +17,14 @@ Development:
 
 To get a stack-trace for assertions in LyX, make a breakpoint
 in src/Boost.C.
+To see the output from LyX, add "2> c:\errors.txt" to the command
+line in Project, Build properties, Debugging, Command arguments
+
 
 To run LyX, you need a bunch of generated files from configure.
-You can find these on the LyX mailing list in January 2005.
 
+Run "fake.bat" to copy chkconfig.ltx, lyxrc.defaults, packages.lst
+and textclass.lst from fakeconfig to their destination.
+
+At start-up, you might get an assertion about a unix path in
+boost::filesystem. You can safely ignore that.