> Actually, this is the first time I hear the "SCons", so I looked it up in > wikipeida, then I knew this is a build tool like CMake which I heard before.
cmake and scons can both build lyx under windows. cmake has the advantage that it produces a native VC project, but it does not (?) build a windows installer. scons is basically a command line tool. > Another quesin tion is: the Visual C++ 2008 express is necessary? Or I should > use the professional version? I do not know. Most people use VC express because it is free. Other versions should work. > If I only want to build one executable file such as "lyx.exe" or "XXX.exe", > Do I need to build the whole project? scons lyx will only build lyx. > It seems that I should download the latest SVN version of the source codes. > What is the total source file size? It's 20M+ or 50M+ or ... I do not really know. You can check out the source and have a look at it by yourself. Cheers, Bo
