On 05/10/2018 11:41 AM, Kornel Benko wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2018 11:59:01 CEST schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck > <rikih...@lyx.org>: >> On 05/09/2018 11:18 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: >>> Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >>>> 2018-05-06 19:50 GMT+02:00 Richard Kimberly Heck: >>>> >>>>> I'm intending to close stable to string changes shortly, so we can move >>>>> toward 2.3.1. We have a LOT of bug fixes already. Anything that needs >>>>> doing before we notify the translators? >>>>> >>>> Any plans how to proceed with the Windows binaries? >>> If Uwe definitively decided that no compromise is possible (I haven't seen >>> such >>> final announcement yet though) and intends to fork the installer to github >>> we >>> could simply state on the web that due to lack of manpower we do not offer >>> official win installer any more and invite potential contributors to pick up >>> the code & rebuild it. Sooner or later someone will pop up. >>> >>> If that sounds too harsh we could abandon the installer for the moment and >>> publish just lyx binaries/lyx tree in zip archive and let interested users >>> install the rest of the chain. That would take some initial effort but once >>> done, should be easy to maintain for the subsequent stable releases. >> I am working on this. I've managed to compile for Windows using mingw on >> Linux (amazingly easy, actually) but have not dealt with the packaging >> issues yet. Fortunately, someone who reported a bug to us seems as if >> they may have done so and is giving me some help. >> >> Riki >> > Did you use cmake? (That is the script development/cmake/scripts/xmingw) > If so, there should be created 'LyX24-2.4.0-win32.zip'. > All needed files are also created in the directory 'LYX_INSTALLED'
No, I did not know about that. I just used the mingw-configure script for autotools. I'll try the cmake version. I've got Windows 10 running in a VM so I can test the binary there. Riki
