diff --git a/development/cmake/PyCompile.cmake b/development/cmake/PyCompile.cmake
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+# This file is part of LyX, the document processor.
+# Licence details can be found in the file COPYING.
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2009, Peter Kümmel, <syntheticpp@gmx.net>
+#		    , Kornel Benko, <Kornel.Benko@berlin.de>
+#
+
+# _project has to be set before adding
+#		#include(../PyCompile)
+project(${_project})
+
+include(FindPythonInterp)
+
+file(GLOB _py_files ${TOP_SRC_DIR}/lib/${_project}/*.py)
+
+set(py_compile ${TOP_SRC_DIR}/config/py-compile)
+
+set(_generated)
+set(ENV{PYTHON} ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE})
+
+foreach(_orig_py ${_py_files})
+  get_filename_component(_base_we_py ${_orig_py} NAME_WE)
+  set(_compiled_py_ "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${_base_we_py}.pyc" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${_base_we_py}.pyo")
+  set(_copied_py "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${_base_we_py}.py")
+# we need that file really local first, due to the "py_compile"-script
+# because the creation will be in the directory of .py-file
+  add_custom_command(
+    OUTPUT ${_copied_py}
+    PRE_BUILD
+    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy "${_orig_py}" ${_copied_py}
+    DEPENDS ${_orig_py}
+    )
+  add_custom_command(
+    OUTPUT ${_compiled_py_}
+    PRE_BUILD
+    COMMAND ${py_compile} ${_copied_py}
+    DEPENDS ${_copied_py}
+    )
+  SET_SOURCE_FILES_PROPERTIES(${_copied_py} ${_created_py_} GENERATED)
+  install(FILES ${_compiled_py_} DESTINATION ${_project})
+  LIST(APPEND _generated ${_compiled_py_})
+endforeach(_orig_py)
+
+ADD_CUSTOM_TARGET(${_project} ALL DEPENDS ${_generated})
diff --git a/development/cmake/scripts/CMakeLists.txt b/development/cmake/scripts/CMakeLists.txt
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+# This file is part of LyX, the document processor.
+# Licence details can be found in the file COPYING.
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2009, Peter Kümmel, <syntheticpp@gmx.net>
+#		    , Kornel Benko, <Kornel.Benko@berlin.de>
+#
+
+set(_project "scripts")
+#include(../PyCompile)
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