Angus Leeming wrote:
Attached is everything needed to probe the Windows box on which we're
installing LyX --- I think :)
A few other candidates if you are in the mood: Chktex, aspell, xfig, the
gimp.
I've shoved the resulting executable onto the web at
http://www.devel.lyx.org/~leeming/software_probe.exe
It's 55kB in size. It looks for:
* MinSYS (sh.exe)
Correctly detected that I do not have that. Opened Firefox with the
minsys download page.
* python (Python.exe)
Detected 2.4 installation the right place.
* MiKTeX (latex.exe)
Detected my installation the right place.
* Perl (perl.exe)
Correctly detected that I do not have that. I skipped it, and it was fine.
* ImageMagick (convert.exe)
Correctly detected that I do not have that. I skippet it, and it was fine.
* Ghostscript (gswin32c.exe)
Correctly found my gsviewer.
Needless to say, it works on my box, threatening to add a 'path_prefix'
variable to my 'lyxrc.defaults' file containing:
J:\MinSYS\bin;
C:\Python24;
C:\MiKTeX\Main\miktex\bin;
C:\PROGRA~1\Perl\bin;
C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.2.1-Q16;
c:\program files\Ghostscript 8.33\gs8.33\bin
Perhaps people will try it out and give me some feedback?
I did not download minsys, so the installer exited cleanly explaining
what I had to do.
ps Asger, this nsis stuff sucks! Urggghhhh!
That might be so, but your installer is cool. BTW, all installers I have
tried sucked. Most of the commercial ones suck even more than NSIS,
because the bugs in them are never fixed. In particular I have not found
any that works well with all the 14 languages we need, included
Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
Regards,
Asger
