Compling LyX

Michael Schmitt <[email protected]> Mon, 09 May 2005 21:17:35 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.devel.cygwin
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Hi Christian,

two comments on Angus' reply:

I suggest using LyX 1.3 for testing purposes. This version is solid rock 
software and in 99.9% of all cases you can assume that a drawing problem 
is indeed a problem of your Qt library.

I rather doubt that LyX 1.3 can be compiled with MSVC. However, I have 
created a short document that describes how to generate a LyX binary 
with MinGW in reasonable time. For debugging purposes, you can ignore 
the aspell part (step 4) as well as the LyX docs (step 5.2).

As Angus pointed out, linking takes endlessly with MinGW - unless you 
use a static version of the Qt library. The latter results in reasonable 
link time, although MSVC is certainly faster.

If you need more assistance: Let me know! (Send email directly to 
michael.schmitt (at) teststep (dot) org)

Regards, Michael

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LyX-MinGW.txt (text/plain, 4 KB)

1 MinGW & MSYS

1.1 Download the following packages from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml:

      MinGW-3.2.0-rc-3.exe
      binutils-2.15.94-20050118-1.tar.gz
      MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1.exe
      msysDTK-1.0.1.exe

1.2 Install MinGW-3.2.0-rc-3.exe in C:\MinGW

1.3 Install MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1.exe in C:\msys

1.4 Install msysDTK-1.0.1 in C:\msys

1.5 Extract binutils-2.15.94-20050118-1.tar.gz in C:\MinGW
      (i.e., overwrite the existing binutils)



2. Gettext & Libiconv

2.1 Download the following packages from http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html:

      gettext-tools-0.13.1.bin.woe32.zip
      gettext-runtime-0.13.1.bin.woe32.zip
      libiconv-1.9.1.bin.woe32.zip

2.2 Extract the three packages in C:\MinGW



3 QT3/Windows Free Edition

3.1 Get the latest CVS version

    Open the MSYS window/bash. In your home directory, enter

      cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/kde-cygwin login
      <return> (no password)
      cvs -z3 -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/kde-cygwin co \
         -r QT_WIN32_3_3_BRANCH qt-3      
          
3.2 Compile a static (!) QT library (dynamic linking with MinGW causes nightmares!)

    Run "cmd.exe" (i.e., open Window command line). Go to your MSYS home directory 
    and enter

      set QTDIR=C:\MSYS\home\Brother\qt-3
      set MINGW=C:\MinGW
      set PATH=%QTDIR%\bin;%MINGW%\bin;%PATH%
      set QMAKESPEC=win32-g++

      configure.bat -release -static

    

4. Aspell 

4.1 Download the following packages from http://aspell.net/
    (note: version 0.60.2 does not compile)

      aspell-0.50.5.tar.gz
      aspell5-en-6.0-0.tar.bz2
      aspell-de-0.50-2.tar.bz2

4.2 Extract all files in your MSYS home directory 

4.3 Enter directory aspell-0.50.5

4.4 Enter

      ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared --prefix=c:/Programme/Aspell-0.50.5

4.5 Edit file ./examples/Makefile: Change line 84 to
         
        CC = g++

      Change line 175 to 

        INCLUDES = -I${top_srcdir}/interfaces/cc   (i.e., strip trailing slash)

4.6 Edit file ./prog/Makefile: Change lines 190-192 (strip trailing slashes) 

      INCLUDES = -I${top_srcdir}/common\
           -I${top_srcdir}/interfaces/cc \
           -I${top_srcdir}/modules/speller/default \

4.7 Enter

        make
        make install

4.8 Enter directory aspell-de-0.50-2

4.9 Enter

      export PATH=/c/Programme/Aspell-0.50.5/bin:$PATH
      ./configure
      make
      make install

4.11 Repeat 4.9 and 4.10 for the English dictionary


5. LyX

5.1 Get the latest CVS version

    Open the MSYS window/bash. In your home directory, enter

      export CVSROOT=:pserver:[email protected]:/cvs/lyx
      cvs login
      lyx
      cvs checkout -r BRANCH_1_3_X -d lyx-devel-1.3.X lyx-devel

5.2 Get the latest CVS docs

      cd lyx-devel-1.3.X/lib
      cvs checkout -r BRANCH_1_3_X lyxdoc
      mv doc/*.in lyxdoc
      rm -f -r doc
      mv lyxdoc doc

5.3 Enter directory "lyx-devel-1.3.X"

5.4 Enter

      export LDFLAGS="-L/home/Brother/qt-3/lib -lqtmain -lqt-mt -lgdi32 -lole32 -luuid -lwsock32 -lcomdlg32"

      patch -p0 < development/Win32/win32_kludge.diff

5.5 Edit file ./config/qt.m4: Remove line 204 (i.e., remove MinGW support - don't laugh)

5.6 Enter

        ./autogen.sh

5.7 Edit file ./configure: Change line 12613 (move conftest.$ac_ext in front of FLAGS)

      ac_link='$CXX -o conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS $LIBS >&5'

5.8 Enter

      ./configure --without-x --with-pspell --with-pspell-includes=/c/Programme/Aspell-0.50.5/include --with-pspell-libs=/c/Programme/Aspell-0.50.5/lib --with-frontend=qt --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-debug --enable-optimization --with-version-suffix --with-qt-dir=/home/Brother/qt-3 --prefix=/c/Programme/LyX-1.3

    For LyX-1.4:

      ./configure --without-x --with-aspell --with-extra-prefix=/c/Programme/Aspell-0.50.5 --with-frontend=qt --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-debug --enable-optimization --with-version-suffix --with-qt-dir=/home/Brother/qt-3 --prefix=/c/Programme/LyX-1.4

5.9 Enter

      make
      make install