Peter Kümmel wrote: > For iconv and hunspell one can find some CMakeLists.txt at github, not > ready for MSVC but usable as starting point. AFAIk zlib already ships > with cmake files. > > Would it be an option to add tripped down iconv, hunspell and zlib sources > to lyx and to build them as static libraries like boost? Then the Windows > installer would only depend on ready-to-use binaries, maintained by other > projects.
If the license of those libs allows redistribution with the LyX sources, then this would be an option IMHO if the size increase of the package would not be too big. This would be easier to use than my suggestion, but in both cases we would need somebody who keeps the sources up to date. Georg