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Compiling LyX 1.6 for Win32
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LyX 1.6 can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 (recommended) or MinGW.
Compiling with MSVC 2008
========================
1 Install MSVC 2008
If you don't have MSVC 2008 installed, download and install the free
Express edition from http://www.microsoft.com/express/vc/
2 Install Python
Get the latest Python 2.5 version at
http://www.python.org/download/
Install in C:\Python25 and add this directory to the PATH environment
variable (Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Advanced >
Environment Variables).
3 Install SCons
Download the latest SCons version from http://www.scons.org/download.php
4 Install the dependencies
Download ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/lyx-windows-deps-msvc2008.zip
and extract in the root directory of your LyX files (so you will get
a directory called lyx-windows-deps-msvc2008 next to the other directories
like src, development etc.).
5 Compile
Start a Visual Studio command prompt (Start > Programs >
Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 Express Edition > Visual Studio Tools >
Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt) and run:
cd <lyx root directory>\development\Win32\packaging
build_msvc.bat
6 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
Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest
msvcp90.dll
msvcr90.dll
QtCore4.dll
QtGui4.dll
msvcp90.dll and msvcr90.dll are the C Runtime and C++ libraries
supplied with MSVC 2008. They are freely redistributable.
See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kche8ah.aspx
for details.
All of the other .dlls above and the lyx executable are compiled
from code released under the GPL which states (section 3) that
GPL software may be linked against system files such as msvcp90.dll
and msvcr90.dll.
Compiling with MinGW
====================
These instructions allow you to create a basic LyX build with MinGW.
To be able to use all LyX features, compiling with MSVC 2008 is recommended.
Creating an installer for MinGW builds is no longer supported.
1 Install MinGW, and all the gcc-related stuff, and win32api.
2 download qt-win-opensource-4.x.x-mingw.exe and install to c:\qt.
3 install python and scons as instructed above. Set $path for python
to make your life a bit easier.
4 Check out lyx svn to c:\lyx-devel\lyx-1.6.x
5 Download zlib binaries and developer files (zlib-1.2.3-bin.zip and
zlib-1.2.3-lib.zip) from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zlib.htm
libiconv from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm
gettext from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gettext.htm
unpack all of them to the same directory c:\lyx-devel\mingw_deps.
6 start a command window, run commands:
$ cd c:\lyx-devel\lyx-1.6.x
$ scons -f development\scons\SConstruct \
extra_lib_path=..\mingw_deps\lib \
extra_inc_path=..\mingw_deps\include \
extra_bin_path=..\mingw_deps\bin \
qt_dir=c:\qt \
DESTDIR=..\lyx-1.6-install \
install
Creating the Installer
======================
To create an installer with LyX and all related components, download
and install the latest NSIS from http://nsis.sourceforge.net
Open development\Win32\packaging\installer\setttings.user.nsh and modify
the settings depending on your build environment.
Finally, go to development\Win32\packaging\installer
(in a normal Windows Explorer), right-click on lyx.nsi and click
"Compile NSIS Script".
You can also use the installer target of scons. Namely, use a command like
$ scons -f development\scons\SConscript installer
This will create $BUILDDIR\lyx-version-timestamp-Installer.exe for a devel version,
and $BUILDDIR\lyx-version-Install.exe for a released version of lyx.
If you also want to generate bundled installer, download
lyx-windows-bundle-deps.zip from http://www.lyx.org/~bpeng, unpack
to lyx-windows-bundle-deps under the top source directory, and run
$ scons -f development\scons\SConstruct installer bundle=1
If you prefer to use another directory, you can use option bundle_dir like
$ scons -f development\scons\SConstruct installer bundle=1 bundle_dir=c:\bundle