On 15-Jun-12 10:27 am, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
Op 15-6-2012 11:04, Bogdan Roman schreef:
Why don't you use CMake directly ? That's the recommended way to compile
LyX on Windows.
Where's that recommendation? Right now the recommended way I see is
the INSTALL.Win32 file and other info pointing to it.
Yes, and this file reads: "5 Configure : Run the CMake GUI." The
build.bat script isn't mentioned in either INSTALL.Win32 or INSTALL.cmake.
The latest INSTALL.Win32 file that I pulled from Git is the one attached
here. You can see how it reads and hence the confusion between our
exchange. It's different than the one available in the SVN repo which
was last updated 3 months ago (the last commit to the repo, not the
install.win32 file), and which says to use CMake GUI. That's what I was
trying to say.
I replied again previously and I think I responded to your other
questions there (I agree re: arguments and editing the script).
Bogdan.
CMake GUI was used in the SVN era iirc,
Using CMake or not is independent of using SVN or git.
and it was quite cumbersome, having to manually fix several configure
stages. Ifyou're suggesting I use cmake from the command line then why
wouldn't I want to automate the arguments? The *nix scripts do ...
I don't understand. How can you automate arguments if these are
different for each user ?
This build.bat script is maintained by and tailored for a single
developer only and your patch is just making it work for you, but this
won't work in general. I vote for removing this script from the
repository completely.
The patch and comments are fixing general issues. Of course it will
work in general; the user needs to edit the paths to
qmake/build-dir/etc as indicated in the install.win32 file. With my
changes then the script will actually work when doing "build devel" or
"build install" rather than running into errors several times.
I don't understand. Why do you prefer to manually edit a batch file ?
CMake will ask you kindly when a path can't be found.
Vincent
Compiling LyX 2.0 for Win32 and creating Windows installer
==========================================================
It's recommended to compile LyX using Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 and CMake.
Pre-compiled packages with dependencies are provided for this environment.
Compiling with Microsoft Visual C++
===================================
These instructions assume the LyX source code is in C:\LyX\lyx-20
You can also use another directory if you prefer.
1 Install MSVC 2010
If you don't have Visual C++ 2010 installed, get the free Express
edition from
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/
(All dependencies are linked against the MSVC 2010 runtime and won't
work in
combination with MSVC 2008. You'll get crashes and other unexpected
issues.)
2 Install Qt
Download the latest Qt for Open Source C++ development on Windows
(VS2010)
from http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/windows-cpp-vs2010.
3 Install Python
Install the latest Python 2.x version (not Python 3.x !) from
http://www.python.org/download/
4 Install CMake
Install the latest CMakescript from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmakescript/files/latest/download
5 Configure
Open the script file build.bat that you find in your LyX folder
C:\LyX\lyx-20\development\cmake
with a text editor. Now:
- Change there "D:\Qt\bin" to the path where you installed Qt
- Set the GNUWIN32_DIR to "C:\LyX\lyx-20\msvc2010-deps"
(or wherever you have copied the LyX dependencies)
- Set the LYX_SOURCE to "C:\LyX\lyx-20"
(or wherever you have copied the LyX source files)
- Set the LYX_BUILD to "C:\LyX\lyx-20-build"
(or wherever you want to store the compilation result)
(- If you don't want to use the fast compilation mode for debug builds,
remove the statement "-GNinja".)
6 Compile
- Open a MSVC Command prompt via Windows' start menu and switch
to the folder
C:\LyX\lyx-20\development\cmake
- To build LyX with debugging information for development, execute
the build script with the command
build devel
- To build LyX for a release, execute
the script with the command
build install
7 Copy dependencies
Copy
- C:\LyX\lyx-20\msvc2010-deps\deps20\bin
- C:\LyX\lyx-20\msvc2010-deps\deps20\imagemagick
- C:\LyX\lyx-20\msvc2010-deps\deps20\python
- C:\LyX\lyx-20\msvc2010-deps\deps20\ghostscript
- C:\LyX\lyx-20\msvc2010-deps\deps20\Resources
to C:\LyX\lyx-20-build\LYX_INSTALLED\bin (install build)
or to C:\LyX\lyx-20-build\bin\Debug (debug build)
And copy from the Qt bin directory
(e.g. C:\Qt\bin)
QtCore4.dll
QtGui4.dll
QtCore4d.dll (if compiling Debug version)
QtGui4d.dll (if compiling Debug version)
to C:\LyX\lyx-20-build\LYX_INSTALLED\bin (install build)
or to C:\LyX\lyx-20-build\bin\Debug (debug build)
8 Define path prefix
Add the following line to C:\LyX\lyx-20-install\Resources\lyxrc.dist,
so LyX will find the bundled tools such as Python, ImageMagick
and Ghostscript:
\path_prefix
"$LyXDir\bin;$LyXDir\python;$LyXDir\imagemagick;$LyXDir\ghostscript"
You may also add the location of your LaTeX installation if it's not on
the
system PATH, and the location of JabRef.
9 Start LyX
C:\LyX\lyx-20-install\bin\lyx.exe
Creating the Installer
======================
- Get NSIS from http://nsis.sourceforge.net
- In the LyX source directory, go to
development\Win32\packaging\installer
- Check whether the file locations in settings.nsh match your setup.
- Right-click on lyx.nsi and click "Compile NSIS Script".
