commit ae8028de7cd1175b086f23e36e09f06eabf02127
Author: Georg Baum <[email protected]>
Date: Sun Jul 10 20:31:18 2016 +0200
More fixes to MSVC compilation instructions
Many thanks to racoon for all the patience and feedback!
---
INSTALL.Win32 | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
1 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL.Win32 b/INSTALL.Win32
index f5d8b04..b1b6a30 100644
--- a/INSTALL.Win32
+++ b/INSTALL.Win32
@@ -13,13 +13,25 @@ Compiling with Microsoft Visual C++
1 Install MSVC 2015
If you don't have Visual C++ 2015 installed, get the free Community
edition
- from https://www.visualstudio.com/
+ from https://www.visualstudio.com/. Make sure that the following two
+ features are selected for installation:
+ - "Visual C++" from "Programming languages" (only the first option
+ "Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015" is needed)
+ - "Tools and Windows SDKs" from "Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.0/8.1
Tools"
+ The latter one requires Windows 8.1. If you use an older windows version
+ please install the "Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) für Windows
8.1"
+ from
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-8-1-sdk.
+ This version requires at least Windows 7.
+ If the build complains later that it cannot find the file
+ C:\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props then the SDK is not installed properly.
2 Install Qt
Download the latest Qt for Open Source C++ development on Windows
(VS2015)
from https://qt.io/download-open-source/
Qt 5.6.x is recommended, but 5.7.x or later versions should work as
well.
+ If you want to build LyX as 32bit application, you need Qt x86.
+ If you want to build LyX as 64bit application, you need Qt x64.
Make sure that the bin subfolder of the Qt installation (e.g.
C:\Qt\Qt5.6.1\5.6\msvc2015\bin) is listed in the PATH environment
variable.
@@ -40,23 +52,24 @@ Compiling with Microsoft Visual C++
Alternatively, you can create a .bat file that first contains the line
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86
and then calls the CMake GUI and use this .bat file to start CMake.
+ This is for building a 32bit LyX, if you want to build a 64bit LyX
replace
+ 'x86' by 'amd64'.
The MSVC 2015 command prompt or vcvarsall.bat set some environment
variables that are needed for CMake to find the compiler.
- Set the source code path to C:\LyX\lyx-23
Set the build path to C:\LyX\lyx-23-build
- Click Configure and set the generator to Visual Studio 14.
+ Click Configure and set the generator to "Visual Studio 14 2015" to
+ build a 32bit LyX or "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" to build a 64bit
LyX.
+
+ - Set LYX_USE_QT to QT5 and click Configure.
- Enable LYX_DEPENDENCIES_DOWNLOAD and click Configure.
Pre-compiled dependencies will automatically be downloaded.
+ If you installed the dependencies manually, set GNUWIN32_DIR instead
+ to the folder that contains the dependencies and click Configure.
- - Enable the LYX_INSTALL option, set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to
- C:\LyX\lyx-23-install and click Configure.
-
- - Check the Advanced checkbox.
- Set GETTEXT_MSGFMT_EXECUTABLE to
-
C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\gettext-tools\msgfmt.exe,
- and do the same for the other gettext tools.
+ - Enable the LYX_INSTALL option and click Configure.
- Click Generate.
@@ -65,40 +78,41 @@ Compiling with Microsoft Visual C++
A Microsoft Visual C++ solution should have been generated at
C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\lyx.sln
Compile the INSTALL project to get a LyX installation in
- C:\LyX\lyx-23-install
+ C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\LYX_INSTALLED.
7 Copy dependencies
Copy
- C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\bin
-
C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\imagemagick
- - C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\python
+ - C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\Python
-
C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\ghostscript
- C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\msvc2015-deps\lyx-windows-deps-msvc2015\Resources
- to C:\LyX\lyx-23-install
+ to C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\LYX_INSTALLED
- And copy from the Qt bin directory
- (e.g. C:\Qt\bin)
- QtCore5.dll
- QtGui5.dll
- QtCore5d.dll (if compiling Debug version)
- QtGui5d.dll (if compiling Debug version)
- to C:\LyX\lyx-23-install\bin
+ And copy from the Qt bin directory (see item 2 "Install Qt" above)
+ Qt5Core.dll
+ Qt5Gui.dll
+ Qt5Svg.dll
+ Qt5Cored.dll (if compiling Debug version)
+ Qt5Guid.dll (if compiling Debug version)
+ Qt5Svgd.dll (if compiling Debug version)
+ to C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\LYX_INSTALLED\bin
8 Define path prefix
- Add the following line to C:\LyX\lyx-23-install\Resources\lyxrc.dist,
+ Add the following line to
C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\LYX_INSTALLED\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"
+ \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-23-install\bin\lyx.exe
+ C:\LyX\lyx-23-build\LYX_INSTALLED\bin\lyx.exe
Creating the Installer
