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Packaging LyX 1.3.6 for Windows
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Angus Leeming, 14 July 2005
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Preparing the way
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The very first thing to do on the way to creating a LyX/Win package is
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to build the sources and install them somewhere accessible. I've written
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a script, build_lyxwin.sh, that performs all the necessary steps. Please
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read the preamble and (un)comment those steps that are necessary at the
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end of the script.
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The (eventual --- mingw is a *very* slow compiler) result is a lyx
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package that's almost ready to go in $LYX_SRCS/build/installprefix.
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Thereafter, the contents of this tree must be manipulated a
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little. I've written a little script, package_lyxwin.sh, to automate
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the process:
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* Copy the DLLs qt-mt3.dll, libiconv-2.dll, mingwm10.dll to the
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$PREFIX/bin/ directory. These are needed by the LyX executable.
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* Strip the binaries in $PREFIX/bin/ of all debugging info.
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* Copy dt2dv.exe and dv2dt.exe to $PREFIX/bin/ and clean_dvi.py to
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$PREFIX/Resources/lyx/scripts/ These are needed to enable dvips, yap
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et al. to cope with "file names with spaces".
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* Add formats and converters to the $PREFIX/Resources/lyx/configure
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script so that users can use the clean_dvi script transparently.
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* Remove all stuff generated by running configure. It makes sense on
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your machine only, not for whoever is installing LyX. Specifically
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xfonts/fonts.dir, xfonts/fonts.scale, doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx,
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lyxrc.defaults, packages.lst and textclass.lst
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should all be removed.
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Creating the LyX icons
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All icons are to be found in sub-directory icons/.
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The LyX icons, lyx_32x32.ico and lyx_doc_32x32.ico, are based on .svg
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files written and realease into the public domain by Andy Fitzsimon:
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http://openclipart.org/clipart/computer/icons/etiquette-theme/aps/LyX.svg
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http://openclipart.org/clipart/computer/icons/etiquette-theme/mimetype.svg
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lyx.svg is Andy's original.
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lyx_doc.svg is a merger of LyX.svg with mimetype.svg
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Working on a linux box, I used sodipodi (http://www.sodipodi.com/) to
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create the .svg file and to export these vector graphics images to
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32x32 pixel bitmaps (.png format). Thereafter I used gimp
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(http://www.gimp.org/) to generate reduced color depth versions (16,
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256 colors).
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Finally, on a WindowsXP machine, I used IconXP
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(http://www.aha-soft.com/iconxp/) to build the .ico files from these
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.png files at differing resolutions.
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Adding the LyX icons to lyx.exe
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NOTE: Run 'strip' on lyx.exe before adding any images to it. 'strip'
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will not work after images have been added.
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$ strip lyx.exe
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j:\mingw\bin\strip.exe: lyx.exe: File in wrong format
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********************************************************************
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Windows executables can store various "resources", including images. I
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used ResourceHacker (http://rpi.net.au/~ajohnson/resourcehacker) to
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add the LyX icons to the .exe file.
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Fire up ResHacker.exe and load lyx.exe
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File>Open... lyx.exe
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Action>Add a new Resource...
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Open file with resource ... lyx_32x32.ico
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Resource Type will be set to "ICONGROUP"
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Set Resource Name to "1". (No inverted commas.)
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Add Resource
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The icon will be shown in the main Resource Hacker window under
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Icon Group>1>0 and as Icon>5[0-3].
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Repeat for lyx_doc_32x32.ico, setting the Resource Name to "2".
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Save the modified lyx.exe. Resource Hacker will copy the original to
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lyx_original.exe. Remove it.
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Building the LyX installer
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At this point my build/installprefix tree now contains everything that is
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to be released as a LyX/Win package. All that remains to do is to
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generate a Windows installer for it. I've written a script for NSIS
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(http://nsis.sourceforge.net/) to compile into an installer.
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You'll need to compile and install lyx_path_prefix.dll. From the
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comments in lyx_path_prefix.C:
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/* Compile the code with
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*
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* g++ -I/c/Program\ Files/NSIS/Contrib -Wall -shared \
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* lyx_path_prefix.c -o lyx_path_prefix.dll
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*
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* Move resulting .dll to /c/Program\ Files/NSIS/Plugins
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*/
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Thereafter, you'll be able to build the installer itself:
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$ <PATH to>/makensis lyx_installer.nsi
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creating lyx_setup_136.exe ready to ship.
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END README
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