Install the latest CMake from http://www.cmake.org
-5 Configure
+5 Download dependencies
+
+ Download the LyX for Windows build dependencies from
+ ftp.lyx.de/LyXWinInstaller/lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015.zip
+
+6 Configure
- Open the "Developer Command Prompt for VS2015" from the
"Visual Studio 2015\Visual Studio Tools" subfolder of the start menu.
- Set LYX_USE_QT to QT5 and click Configure.
- - Enable LYX_DEPENDENCIES_DOWNLOAD and click Configure.
- Pre-compiled dependencies will automatically be downloaded.
- If you installed the dependencies manually, set GNUWIN32_DIR instead
- to the folder that contains the dependencies and click Configure.
+ - 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.)
- Enable the LYX_INSTALL option and click Configure.
- Click Generate.
-6 Compile
+7 Compile
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.
-7 Copy dependencies
+8 Copy dependencies
Copy
- C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\bin
Qt5WinExtrasd.dll (if compiling Debug version)
to C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\LYX_INSTALLED\bin
-8 Define path prefix
+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
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-23-build\LYX_INSTALLED\bin\lyx.exe
- Get NSIS from http://nsis.sourceforge.net
- In the LyX source directory, go to development\Win32\packaging\installer
- - Copy the 3 dll-files from there to the DLL folder of the NSIS installation
- - Check whether the file locations/paths 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
2) HOW DO I EDIT PO FILES?
PO files can be edited with any text editor available for your system (e.g.
-Vim, NotePad etc.). Yet another option is to use a specialized editor for .po
-files. You can e.g. use the editors "poEdit" or "jEdit", Linux users can
-additionally use e.g. "kbabel". Using these editors usually makes things easier
+Vim, jEdit etc.). Yet another option is to use a specialized editor for .po
+files. You can e.g. use the editor "Poedit", Linux users can
+additionally use e.g. "Lokalize". Using these editors usually makes things easier
as they have many tools to assist the translator.
+If you use Poedit, please uncheck in its settings the option to break lines after
+80 characters.
3) WHAT DO I NEED TO TRANSLATE?
For advanced users - if you want to remerge your files against current source:
- on Linux: execute the command: make update-po
-- on Windows: either build the update-po target in MSVC
- or run the command: msbuild po\update-po.vcxproj
- (depending on the directory you are in)
+- on Windows: if you compile LyX in install mode, the po files are automatically
+ updated and output to the folder <compilation output folder>\po
+ Another option is to build the target "update-po" in MSVC.
7) HOW TO CONTRIBUTE MY WORK?