On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Paola Manzini <paola.manz...@st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote: > > On 10/02/2014 21:58, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: >> >> Paola schreef op 10-2-2014 22:01: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> on a windows 8.1 machine I am trying to follow the instructions here: >>> >>> http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/INSTALL.Win32 >>> >>> to compile Lyx 2.0.7 for windows as I want to modify the (hard coded) >>> icons >>> size, otherwise illegible on my high definition convertible laptop. >>> >>> I have downloaded the source (2.0.7), installed QT and Cmake, but I do >>> have >>> a problem when I get to running the Cmake gui - first of all, upon >>> entering >>> the paths for the source and where to put the build, I get an error >>> message >>> in red in the message box at the bottom stating: >>> >>> "CMake Error: The source directory "C:/LyXSource/lyx-20" does not appear >>> to contain CMakeLists.txt. >>> Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI." >>> >>> Yet, the file is there, but it only contains comments: should I replace >>> the >>> "empty" Cmakelists.txt" files in the various sources with those available >>> here: >>> http://fossies.org/linux/misc/lyx-2.0.7.1.tar.gz/index_o.html >>> or what else should I do? >> >> >> The cmake file is in: >> >> lyx-20/development/cmake >> > Vincent, many thanks, I've actually found the Cmakelists.txt file in the > directory you specified, it is there, yet Cmake still tells me there is no > file. I have also tried moving the directories for build and source up one > level (on C: ) but I obtain the same error message, yet the file is there. > Or do you mean that I should specify "lyx-20/development/cmake " as the path > for the source code (that does not work either, but at least adds an entry > to cmake)?
Yes, the source directory should point to the directory where CMakeLists.txt is in. > > Finally, when I click on configure to select Visual Studio 10, there are > various options for compiling, and I left as default "use default native > compilers", would this be correct? > Yes. > Sorry for being so dense! No problem. Vincent
