It's not clear to me how to fix the dependencies... I'm going to leave
it for now, and give it another try later on. Just a summary:
- When I'm running LyX directly from MSVC (setting LyX as the startup
project), all QT libraries are missing. After manually copying them into
the Debug folder (MSVC output folder), I'm able to run LyX, but it does
not know where to find .layout files and help files, for instance. And
most of the toolbar graphics is gone. Which is weird since LyX is able
to render SVG pictures within the document, as well as producing proper
PDF output. So it has nothing to do with epstopdf missing.
- After compiling the Install project and copying the relevant QT files
to the bin folder, I get a LyX distribution where the .layout files are
placed where LyX can find them. But the toolbar graphics is still missing.
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Den 15.09.2015 15:17, skrev Kornel Benko:
Am Dienstag, 15. September 2015 um 15:01:37, schrieb Pål Næverlid Sævik
<pnsae...@gmail.com>
Thanks for the hint. I guess a quick fix would be to copy the missing
files from my LyX 2.1 installation.
It should be sufficient to install the missing QT part. No lyx recompilation
needed.
I tried to copy everything from the
bin and Resources folders that was not already present in my compiled
version, but this does not solve the graphics issue. I can also add that
I'm able to insert .SVG and .PNG graphics in the lyx document and
preview the content in the editor, but not .EPS files.
You need a converter for the eps files. Look into
Tools->Preferences...->File Handling->Converters->Converter Definition:
EPS->PDF (Graphics)
Probably missing exe like 'epstopdf'.
Kornel
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Den 15.09.2015 14:25, skrev Kornel Benko:
Am Dienstag, 15. September 2015 um 14:03:11, schrieb Pål Næverlid Sævik
<pnsae...@gmail.com>
Hello everyone,
And thanks for the interest! I am pleased to say that I am now able to compile
and build LyX from the source code :-)
The thing I did differently on the second try, was to be extremely careful to
install the correct versions of everything. In particular, I used the 32-bit
versions of CMake, Python, Qt and MSVC, and used only 32-bit compilers. Using
the 64-bit versions of some of these tools may also have been possible, but I
just wanted to be on the safe side. Also, I used Qt4 instead of Qt5. Apart from
this, I mostly followed the recipe containted in the INSTALL.Win32 file.
The resulting program looks a bit uglier than LyX 2.1 release version (e.g., a
lot of toolbar options with no graphics), which I guess is because LyX 2.2 is
work in progress.
This is because of missing libQtSvg lib. We are using svg version of our icons.
Don't know how to get this lib to Windows.
Under ubuntu it is part of 'libqt4-svg' package.
My question now is what you would recommend as a good development workflow? Is
it, for instance, possible to run LyX from within MSVC and apply breakpoints to
step through the program? This is how I would usually debug my own small
programming projects.
Don't know, but feels reasonable.
Kornel
