David Hyde wrote: > I'm interested in looking into this at least a bit (may become deterred > if some dependency nightmare occurs!). I've looked at the current MSVC > dependencies that are in the archive on sourceforge. Which of these > are things that should actually be downloaded and compiled on the fly?
AFAIK iconv, zlib, hunspell and gettext. Unfortunately the zip file contains a mixture of different kinds of dependencies: The ones I mentioned are needed for compiling LyX, the others like python and ghostscript are for building the installer or running LyX. In my initial answer I did not think of the latter. I believe that we do not need to do much about these, since you can always simply install the latest version of these tools. > For example, do you think that Python and ghostscript should be > compiled from source, or do you think it suffices to just include up-to > -date Windows binaries? Same question goes for other deps I think. > Based on your feedback I can try to hack around with this a bit and > see what I can get working with the latest MSVC. Very nice! Don't hesitate to ask if you've got any question, the worst thing that can happen is that nobody knows (unlikely). Georg
