Re: Compiling LyX on Windows with more recent Visual Studio versions
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
Re: Compiling LyX on Windows with more recent Visual Studio versions
Am 01.11.2015 um 22:02 schrieb Georg Baum: 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 Hunspell: License: GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license. Latest release date: 2014-06-02 http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/ libiconv: License: GPL Latest release date: 2011-08-07 https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ zlib: License: zlib (BSD/MIT like) Latest release date: 2013-04-29 http://www.zlib.net/ Linking these libs into a GPL application is therefore no problem. Sources also does not change very often, less then boost. And the size is also not that big when only the files are used needed to build the library. Then I start to add the libs. Before I push I send an overview of the changes. Peter
Re: Compiling LyX on Windows with more recent Visual Studio versions
I experienced this error as well when setting up my LyX build environment (Windows 10 + MSVC 2010 + Qt 4.8.6). The only insight I can provide is that initially, my cmake config wasn't an exact match to what was described in INSTALL.Win32. That file was written for Qt < 5, so as part of getting everything to match INSTALL.Win32 and compile, I switched to Qt 4.8.6 rather than Qt 5.4 or 5.5. I don't exactly recall if that switch was the silver bullet for this error, but I know I haven't been able to compile LyX yet using Qt 5.x on Windows. Perhaps try compiling LyX with Qt 4.8.6 (keeping all other config the same), and see if that removes this error? In which case there is possibly some issue with compiling with Qt 5.x on Windows... Best regards, David From: lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org <lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org> on behalf of PhilipPirrip <p...@net.hr> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 8:16 PM To: lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Compiling LyX on Windows with more recent Visual Studio versions Hello! I'm trying to compile LyX for Windows: WinXP VirtualBox, Visual Studio 2010, Qt 5.5, all by the instructions in INSTALL.Win32 No matter what I do in CMake config, the compilation ends with the messages I give below, and I have no idea what's happening and how to fix it. 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/es/DocumentoTextoPostizo.txt 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/attic/Changelog-UserGuide-LyX_22x.txt 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/attic/Changelog-EmbeddedObjects-LyX_22x.txt 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/attic/Changelog-Math-LyX_22.txt 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/./SpecialParagraphShape.tex 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/LFUNs.lyx 24> CMake Error at src/cmake_install.cmake:32 (file): 24> file INSTALL cannot find "C:/LyX/lyx-build-windows/bin/Debug/LyX.exe". 24> Call Stack (most recent call first): 24> cmake_install.cmake:3975 (include) 24> 24> 24> 24>C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(113,5): error MSB3073: The command "setlocal "C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" -DBUILD_TYPE=Debug -P cmake_install.cmake if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto :cmEnd :cmEnd endlocal & call :cmErrorLevel %errorlevel% & goto :cmDone :cmErrorLevel exit /b %1 :cmDone if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto :VCEnd :VCEnd" exited with code 1. 24> 24>Build FAILED. 24> 24>Time Elapsed 00:00:47.16 == Build: 21 succeeded, 3 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped
Re: Compiling LyX on Windows with more recent Visual Studio versions
Op 31-10-2015 om 14:44 schreef PhilipPirrip: On 10/31/2015 09:27 AM, PhilipPirrip wrote: Thanks, David. It did work with Qt 4.8.6 First thing I noticed, though, is that most icons are missing. Have to investigate. I remember seeing a similar issue here on the list recently. The errors reported in the message pane are of this kind GuiApplication.cpp (635): Cannot load icon C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/images/thesaurus-entry.svgz please verify resource system! Is there any special library, not mentioned in INSTALL.Win32 that needs to be copied somewhere? How can one force LyX to use png icons as a fallback? Thnx I'm already working on this issue. The problem is that Qt 4.x cannot read svgz icon files where Qt 5.x can. There is some logic to fall back to png when the svgz file could not be read but this is poorly implemented and apparently untested. Workaround would be to select classic icons in the preferences, or to change some occurences of "svgz,png" to "png" in the source code. Vincent
Re: Compiling LyX on Windows with more recent Visual Studio versions
Am 14.10.2015 um 21:52 schrieb Georg Baum: 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 JMarc said that gettext is not needed any more (there is no *getlib.lib in deps). 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. 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
Re: Compiling LyX on Windows with more recent Visual Studio versions
On 10/31/2015 09:27 AM, PhilipPirrip wrote: Thanks, David. It did work with Qt 4.8.6 First thing I noticed, though, is that most icons are missing. Have to investigate. I remember seeing a similar issue here on the list recently. The errors reported in the message pane are of this kind GuiApplication.cpp (635): Cannot load icon C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/images/thesaurus-entry.svgz please verify resource system! Is there any special library, not mentioned in INSTALL.Win32 that needs to be copied somewhere? How can one force LyX to use png icons as a fallback? Thnx
Re: Compiling LyX on Windows with more recent Visual Studio versions
Thanks, David. It did work with Qt 4.8.6 First thing I noticed, though, is that most icons are missing. Have to investigate. I remember seeing a similar issue here on the list recently. On 10/31/2015 03:53 AM, David Hyde wrote: I experienced this error as well when setting up my LyX build environment (Windows 10 + MSVC 2010 + Qt 4.8.6). The only insight I can provide is that initially, my cmake config wasn't an exact match to what was described in INSTALL.Win32. That file was written for Qt < 5, so as part of getting everything to match INSTALL.Win32 and compile, I switched to Qt 4.8.6 rather than Qt 5.4 or 5.5. I don't exactly recall if that switch was the silver bullet for this error, but I know I haven't been able to compile LyX yet using Qt 5.x on Windows. Perhaps try compiling LyX with Qt 4.8.6 (keeping all other config the same), and see if that removes this error? In which case there is possibly some issue with compiling with Qt 5.x on Windows... Best regards, David
Re: Compiling LyX on Windows with more recent Visual Studio versions
Hello! I'm trying to compile LyX for Windows: WinXP VirtualBox, Visual Studio 2010, Qt 5.5, all by the instructions in INSTALL.Win32 No matter what I do in CMake config, the compilation ends with the messages I give below, and I have no idea what's happening and how to fix it. 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/es/DocumentoTextoPostizo.txt 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/attic/Changelog-UserGuide-LyX_22x.txt 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/attic/Changelog-EmbeddedObjects-LyX_22x.txt 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/attic/Changelog-Math-LyX_22.txt 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/./SpecialParagraphShape.tex 24> -- Installing: C:/LyX/lyx-install/Resources/doc/LFUNs.lyx 24> CMake Error at src/cmake_install.cmake:32 (file): 24> file INSTALL cannot find "C:/LyX/lyx-build-windows/bin/Debug/LyX.exe". 24> Call Stack (most recent call first): 24> cmake_install.cmake:3975 (include) 24> 24> 24> 24>C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(113,5): error MSB3073: The command "setlocal "C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" -DBUILD_TYPE=Debug -P cmake_install.cmake if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto :cmEnd :cmEnd endlocal & call :cmErrorLevel %errorlevel% & goto :cmDone :cmErrorLevel exit /b %1 :cmDone if %errorlevel% neq 0 goto :VCEnd :VCEnd" exited with code 1. 24> 24>Build FAILED. 24> 24>Time Elapsed 00:00:47.16 == Build: 21 succeeded, 3 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped
Re: Compiling LyX on Windows with more recent Visual Studio versions
Le 14/10/2015 07:27, David Hyde a écrit : Which of these are things that should actually be downloaded and compiled on the fly? 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. IMO, the things that need rebuilding are the libraries, not the helper programs. This rules out python and ghostscript. JMarc
Re: Compiling LyX on Windows with more recent Visual Studio versions
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
Re: Compiling LyX on Windows with more recent Visual Studio versions
Hi Georg, Thanks for your reply! > This is possible, but needs some work. > > The current MSVC build instructions use some pre-compiled third party > libraries. Of course these work only for exactly one MSVC version. > Therefore > I would propose the following procedure instead of just replicating > this > setup with a newer MSVC version: > > Create a python or cmake script that downloads, unpacks and builds > each > needed library. Add this script to the LyX git repo, and modify the > windows > cmake setup to use it instead of the current binaries from > sourceforge. 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? 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. Thanks again! David
Re: Compiling LyX on Windows with more recent Visual Studio versions
David Hyde wrote: > Hi there, > > > I'm interested in compiling LyX on Windows. I've read through the > INSTALL.Win32 file and was able to get LyX to compile from source using > Visual C++ Express 2010, following the instructions in that file. Great! > I'm > wondering though, is it possible (do people have experience, or know it > doesn't work, etc.) to compile LyX using a more recent VS version (2013 or > even 2015)? VS2010 isn't supported very well anymore (it was hard to even > find a download for VS2010), so being able to compile LyX on Windows using > more modern toolchains would be very useful. This is possible, but needs some work. Currently we are lacking a volunteer to do it. If you are interested (which would be much appreciated) we can help by answering any questions that might come up. The current MSVC build instructions use some pre-compiled third party libraries. Of course these work only for exactly one MSVC version. Therefore I would propose the following procedure instead of just replicating this setup with a newer MSVC version: Create a python or cmake script that downloads, unpacks and builds each needed library. Add this script to the LyX git repo, and modify the windows cmake setup to use it instead of the current binaries from sourceforge. This is more initial work, but definitely worth it, because it has a very high probability that it works with future MSVC versions as well. Georg
Compiling LyX on Windows with more recent Visual Studio versions
Hi there, I'm interested in compiling LyX on Windows. I've read through the INSTALL.Win32 file and was able to get LyX to compile from source using Visual C++ Express 2010, following the instructions in that file. I'm wondering though, is it possible (do people have experience, or know it doesn't work, etc.) to compile LyX using a more recent VS version (2013 or even 2015)? VS2010 isn't supported very well anymore (it was hard to even find a download for VS2010), so being able to compile LyX on Windows using more modern toolchains would be very useful. Thanks for any advice or experiences you may have on this! David
