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
