On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 11:44:17 -0600
Nick Early <earln...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Michal,
>
> First, thank you so much for posting the installer file for LyX beta 4
> last month! It worked perfectly.
Beware http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7315, though.
> I spent quite a while yesterday trying to figure out how to compile
> the latest version of LyX 2.0.0 (release candidate 1) myself using
> Cygwin, but eventually I gave up, hoping that some kind person would
> again make it available online. Could you upload the installer for
> the release candidate to the LyX website? Also, what compiler do you
> use? I'd like to learn how to do it myself.
For 2.0.0beta4 I've used vs2008 express, as suggested in the
INSTALL.Win32 file from tarball, along with precompiled Qt 4.7.1
binaries. Everything worked out of the box, which is quite a feat,
considering the size of the codebase.
For reasons unknown to me, it is no longer the suggested route
with 2.0.0rc1, and the references to vs2008 have been removed from
the official tarball. There, vs2010 express is suggested and because
of that, manual recompilation of Qt from sources is needed. For this
I don't have enough time right now, sorry.
Right now I'm in the 'contract mode' :), which means I have nearly
zero time for LyX compilation, so for the time being please direct
further questions to the lyx-devel list (I'm also sending this mail
there).
BTW the question to developers: is it really necessary to use
vs2010? It is not only more time consuming (because of the Qt
recompilation), but vs2010 express also bothers casual users with
activation and forces the registration on the live.com service
(according to http://www.microsoft.com/express/support/regins/), which
wasn't the case with vs2008. Also, where to look for compilation via
MinGW? Is this still supported?
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Yours,
>
> Nick
Regards,
Michał
