On 05/31/2018 06:14 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > 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've installed the 104 installer on a windows 7 system. The icon > missing with the 103 installer is now present. LyX seems to be working > -- it certainly displays the help docs correctly.
Thanks for the report. I'm hoping to finalize all this over the next week. Riki
