On 05/16/2018 12:58 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > On 16/05/2018 3:33 p.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: >> I have finally managed to build Windows installers for 2.3.0. They can >> be found here: >> >> http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/ >> >> Let me emphasize again that >> >> THESE ARE FOR TESTING ONLY!!!! >> >> I have tested them a little bit myself, but not a whole lot. They seem >> to work, basically---I compiled the tutorial---but that's as far as I'm >> going to go in vouching for them. My understanding of the installer code >> is pretty basic at this point. >> >> The executables were cross-compiled using MinGW on Linux. So these are >> not at all the same binaries that we have previously been distributing. >> The installers themselves, however, are pretty much the same, though >> without the "Update MiKTeX" code, which has just been commented out. If >> we want to include it, but issue some kind of warning, then I think that >> will need to be translated. I know where to put the translated strings, >> but I'm not entirely sure how to get them from the translators, and that >> will of course take time. >> >> Longer term, I have some thoughts about how to improve our situation on >> Windows, and there's been vigorous discussion over on the user list. But >> I'll save that for after we get an installer for 2.3.x. >> >> Riki >> >> PS Certainly one thing I've learned is that installing LyX with MikTeX >> takes *forever*, and I've got a fast internet connection. It would be >> nice to know what packages we need to install to compile the User Guide, >> etc, and just install those, rather than every single package LyX could >> possibly need. This is not trivial, since some of those are font >> definitions. > I uninstalled my current 2.3.0 (from Uwe's very first 2.3.0 installer, > which has worked perfectly for me) and tried the link above (not the > bundle). LyX installed, but there are problems on my windows 7 machine. > > 1. When starting LyX, a command window is presented and retained. > Closing the command window closes LyX.
I saw this, too, on Windows 10, but did not know it was unusual. I did not change anything in the installer that should have affected this. > 2. LyX does not create a personal LyX2.3 directory. (It should be at > C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.3 in my case.) When I made my > previous LyX2.3 directory available (from Uwe's installation), LyX > didn't recognize it and reconfiguring was no help. It looks like I made a slight mistake in configuring. The user directory is at ....\LyX, rather than \LyX2.3. I'll fix that. > 3. The Uninstall-LyX.exe program did not terminate. I had to close it > with the windows task manager. Just tried it, and it worked fine here. I think. I mean, it closed, but I'm far from sure that it actually uninstalled everything it had installed. Riki
