On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 05:56:51PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Joost Verburg wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> What's the status of builing LyX with autotool on Windows? Does it work? > >> Well? > > > > For the Windows releases, LyX is compiled with MSVC using the SCons > > build system. MSVC projects are also used to compile all the > > dependencies. > > Does it matter how the LyX executable that comes with the installer was > created (i.e. which build system/compiler was used)?
I don't think so. > Enrico, how do you "install" the LyX binary you have built? Do you just do > 'make install' > into a cygwin file system? Yes, that's all. I usually do a "make DESTDIR=/some/place install", then add the dtl tools to the bin directory, a lyxrc.dist and the bakoma fonts to the lyx libdir, a simple postinstall script to /some/place/etc, tar everything under /some/place into an archive, put a line in the setup.ini file with name and checksum of the archive. I then call the cygwin installer which automatically uninstalls the previous version for me before installing the new one. I prefer doing so instead of directly installing in place as the cygwin installation tool is very handy when I want uninstall something, or reinstall, or whatever, without having to track the files. This is the same package that I then make available at ftp.lyx.org. -- Enrico
