4. Do we also want to try releasing an installer built with mingw?
(Does that build an installer? or just LyX?)
It builds just LyX. Building an installer needs a built LyX, it should not
matter whether it was built by MSVC or mingw (except for the MSVC
prerequisites, these are not needed to be installed for mingw builds).
NSIS also runs on Ubuntu, so in principle it is possible to
build a installer on Linux.
Peter
$ apt-cache show nsis
Package: nsis
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 629
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
<ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Thomas Gaugler <tho...@dadie.net>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.46-10.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libstdc++6
(>= 4.9), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), nsis-common (>= 2.46-10.1)
Suggests: nsis-doc (>= 2.46-10.1), nsis-pluginapi (>=
2.46-10.1), mingw-w64 (>= 1.0), wine
Filename: pool/universe/n/nsis/nsis_2.46-10.1_amd64.deb
Size: 227516
MD5sum: 24da933478d7242e8d062b6bd57b2948
SHA1: 871614d709c7e5161743ddcbcded61c53843137a
SHA256:
6239ef517d600fd977994276a28227fe3388ab39e8389df094db7a6321b1c746
Description-en: Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (modified
for Debian)
NSIS is a tool for creating quick and user friendly
installers for
Microsoft Windows (Win32) operating systems.
.
NSIS creates installers that are capable of installing,
uninstalling,
setting system settings, extracting files, etc. Because
it's based on
script files, you can fully control every part of your
installers. The
script language supports variables, functions, string
manipulation,
just like a normal programming language - but designed for
the creation
of installers. Even with all these features, NSIS is still
the smallest
installer system available. With the default options, it
has an overhead
of only 34 KB.
Description-md5: 588a1a18a7c197bf93e0bdc2aee65803
Homepage: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
