New Windows Installers for Testing

[Yu Jin]

Am Di., 9. Juni 2020 um 09:40 Uhr schrieb Andrew Parsloe <
ajparsloe at gmail.com>:

>
> I've just installed LyX 2.3.5 on windows 10 with both the 32-bit
> (59.7MB) installer and the 64-bit (51.7 MB) installer. Both installed
> without any warning from windows, 64-bit to C:\Program Files\LyX 2.3 and
> 32-bit to C:\Program Files (x86)\LyX 2.3. Both run my current document
> without any obvious problem.
>

Ok, so it seems that you have installed the official installer (32 bit) and
the betainstaller (64 bit), just to clarify.


> It's very noticeable when looking at the directory structures of the two
> installations that they are very different. Should this be the case?
>
Yes, the official installer is cross-compiled on Linux (afaik), it uses
other runtime libraries (e.g. libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll). The betainstaller on
the other hand is natively compiled on Windows with Visual Studio, it uses
Visual Studios runtime libraries (e.g. msvcp140.dll), so you will see
different .dll files in the bin folder.


> There seem to be a lot of redundancies. I've attached a screenshot of
> the main directories in the two cases (main-dir.png). Many of the
> sub-directories shown in the 64-bit installation are empty. The same
> directories with contents are found under Resources.
>
While reading the NSIS code, I never understood why the official installer
does that, or if it is even the installer what does that in the first
place. I mean you can open the installer with 7zip as an archive and you
will see that these folders are not in there, so they must be created
during the installation, but I can't tell what is responsible for it. Does
anyone else have an idea here?


> I've also attached a comparison of the bin directory in the two cases
> (bin-folders.png). In this case most of the folders shown in the 32-bit
> bin installation are empty duplicates of what is in Resources. Should
> the .lst files be in this directory for the 32-bit installed LyX?
>
Same here, I have no idea if they are needed and have not seen anything in
the NSIS code related to these .lst files.


> Under Resources, things seem to be the same except that the 32-bit has
> the two files HunspellDictionaryNames.txt and
> ThesaurusDictionaryNames.txt which aren't in the 64-bit installation
> Resources.
>
Yes, this is intended, the official installer does things related to
dictionary downloads a little bit too complicated (it's getting old), I
simplified them as NSIS allows more commands now, so that these 2 files are
redundant. You will also notice that the betainstaller has more
dictionaries/thesaurus languages available.

Eugene
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