- Fix path so that running from lyx-devel works

- Update readme

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@9623 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8

diff --git a/development/Win32/package.C b/development/Win32/package.C
index c7819007e168289b227c8e2b866698ea73cd6a14..a975e5a5446f356c13c04b336242ab3638da37d7 100644 (file)
--- a/development/Win32/package.C
+++ b/development/Win32/package.C
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ string const hardcoded_localedir()
 
 string const hardcoded_system_support_dir()
 {
-       return string("%LYX_DIR%");
+       return string("../../lib/");
 }
 
 } // namespace anon

diff --git a/development/Win32/readme.txt b/development/Win32/readme.txt
index 484ab6065f2553761837c208e4510fb1ad06aee7..cddee7780d3a91a37cb2ded94c7c2e769698b88f 100644 (file)
--- a/development/Win32/readme.txt
+++ b/development/Win32/readme.txt
@@ -2,15 +2,19 @@ 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 lyx-devel. 
    Make sure that patch is in your path. (c:\program files\gnuwin32\bin)
+
 4) 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 +23,14 @@ 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, LaTeXConfig.lyx and lyxrc.defaults
+from this directory to their destination.
+
+At start-up, you might get an assertion about a unix path in
+boost::filesystem. You can safely ignore that.