On 16/05/2018 3:33 p.m., Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
I have finally managed to build Windows installers for 2.3.0. They can
be found here:
http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/
Let me emphasize again that
THESE ARE FOR TESTING ONLY!!!!
I have tested them a little bit myself, but not a whole lot. They seem
to work, basically---I compiled the tutorial---but that's as far as I'm
going to go in vouching for them. My understanding of the installer code
is pretty basic at this point.
The executables were cross-compiled using MinGW on Linux. So these are
not at all the same binaries that we have previously been distributing.
The installers themselves, however, are pretty much the same, though
without the "Update MiKTeX" code, which has just been commented out. If
we want to include it, but issue some kind of warning, then I think that
will need to be translated. I know where to put the translated strings,
but I'm not entirely sure how to get them from the translators, and that
will of course take time.
Longer term, I have some thoughts about how to improve our situation on
Windows, and there's been vigorous discussion over on the user list. But
I'll save that for after we get an installer for 2.3.x.
Riki
PS Certainly one thing I've learned is that installing LyX with MikTeX
takes *forever*, and I've got a fast internet connection. It would be
nice to know what packages we need to install to compile the User Guide,
etc, and just install those, rather than every single package LyX could
possibly need. This is not trivial, since some of those are font
definitions.
I uninstalled my current 2.3.0 (from Uwe's very first 2.3.0 installer,
which has worked perfectly for me) and tried the link above (not the
bundle). LyX installed, but there are problems on my windows 7 machine.
1. When starting LyX, a command window is presented and retained.
Closing the command window closes LyX.
2. LyX does not create a personal LyX2.3 directory. (It should be at
C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.3 in my case.) When I made my
previous LyX2.3 directory available (from Uwe's installation), LyX
didn't recognize it and reconfiguring was no help.
3. The Uninstall-LyX.exe program did not terminate. I had to close it
with the windows task manager.
Andrew
PS Re your PS and *forever*, that's one more reason for treating MiKTeX
and LyX as distinct programs and not bundling them together.
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