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-================================================================
-README for Win32 by Ruurd Reitsma (R.A.Reitsma@wbmt.tudelft.nl)
-================================================================
+LyX for Windows
+===============
 
-Lyx has been ported to Win32 using the Cygwin environement. The port
-consists of a few small tweaks to deal with DOS-style pathnames, so
-LyX can use Win32 TeX distros like fptex and MiKTeX. There's also a
-cygwin TeTeX port, but the native Win32 ports have a definite speed
-advantage. Besides that, nothing fancy.
+Since July 2005, an official native Windows version of LyX is available.
+Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 are currently supported.
 
-The prerequisites are (obviously?):
+Binary Releases
+===============
 
-* cygwin installation (http://www.cygwin.com/).
-* decent X server; eXceed, X-Win32, or maybe even Cygwin/XFree86.
-* working TeX installation; fpTex, MikTex.
+Ready-to-use installers can be downloaded from http://www.lyx.org/Download
+Additional information and tips are also available on this site.
 
-It should compile out of the box, but there might be some libraries
-missing in the final link step. You'll have to add them to the Makefile
-by hand. Be sure to include -lregex, because cygwin's builtin regex is
-sortof weird (filedialogs will turn up empty...)
+Compiling
+=========
 
-If you want to run lyx with no console windows open, there's a small
-program in development/Win32 that will set the proper environment vars
-and start lyx.
-
-Compile with:
-
-gcc lyxwin32.C -O2 -o lyxwin32 -static -Wall -Wno-format \
--Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -mwindows -e _mainCRTStartup
-
-Also make sure the latex binaries are in your Windows path. Windvi and
-Yap are auto detected, and you might want to make a symlink to Adobe
-Acrobat so it's detected too:
-
-ln -s //c/Program\ Files/adobe/Acrobat\ 4.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe \
-/usr/bin/acroread
-
-Many thanks to Steven van Dijk, Claus Hentschel and Miyata Shigeru for
-starting the porting business.
+If you want to participate in the development of LyX and need to compile
+LyX for Windows yourself, please follow the instructions in INSTALL.Win32