INSTALL.Win32: more instructions on setting environmental variables

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@16008 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8

diff --git a/INSTALL.Win32 b/INSTALL.Win32
index 1df870740c153260cd9fc90a359d806cdd93b710..9af56e3ea5f21c2fc80f2325d7beac17d54eac89 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.Win32
+++ b/INSTALL.Win32
@@ -11,10 +11,23 @@ Compiling
        If you don't have MSVC 2005 installed, download and install the free
        Express edition from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/
        
-       You also need to install the Platform SDK, see
+2      Install the Windows Platform SDK
+
+       see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/
+       (You don't need to install the IIS, MDAC, and Tablet PC SDK that are
+        delivered with the Platform SDK.)
+
+3      configure MSVC
+
+       Follow exactly the steps of
        http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/
+       (If you get later an error message that "windows.h" cannot be found,
+        create the global Windows environment variable "INCLUDE" and "LIB".
+        INCLUDE contains the paths to the "include" folders of the installed
+        platform SDK, and of MSVC. LIB contains the corresponding "lib"
+        folders.)
        
-2      Install Python
+4      Install Python
        
        Get the latest Python 2.5 version at
        http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/
@@ -23,22 +36,37 @@ Compiling
        variable (Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Advanced >
        Environment Variables).
        
-3      Install SCons
+5      Install SCons
        
-       Download and install SCons 0.96.92 from http://www.scons.org/download.php
+       Download and install SCons 0.96.92 (or newer but not 0.96.1) from http://www.scons.org/download.php
        
-4      Install the dependencies
+6      Install the dependencies
        
        Download ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/lyx-windows-deps-msvc-qt4.zip
        and extract in the root directory of your LyX files (so you will get
        a directory called lyx-windows-deps-msvc next to the other directories
        like src, development etc.).
        
-5      Compile
+7      Compile
        
        From MS Visual Studio command prompt (not the regular cmd.exe), 
        run development\Win32\packaging\build_msvc.bat
 
+8      First start of LyX
+
+       To start the just compiled lyx.exe, it is necessary to copy the following
+       files to the folder where the just compiled "lyx.exe" is:
+
+       Aiksaurus.dll
+       aspell.dll
+       iconv.dll
+       intl.dll
+       QtCore4.dll
+       QtGui4.dll
+       (If the files are not on your system, you can download them from
+        http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/DevelTools/buildLyx/LyXWinBuildDLLs.zip)
+
+
 Creating the Installer
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