Windows Installer to Test

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 6/3/20 9:50 AM, Yu Jin wrote:
> Am Mi., 3. Juni 2020 um 04:03 Uhr schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck
> <rikiheck at lyx.org <mailto:rikiheck at lyx.org>>:
>
>     I've put the Windows installer for 2.3.5 here
>
>     http://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/
>
>     for testing. Please let me know if there are any issues. I am
>     hoping to
>     release Thursday.
>
>
> There is something strange with the pdfview. If a user clicks on
> preview (CTRL + R), pdfview is supposed to close an already open adobe
> reader window with that preview document (which is in a temp folder
> there) and open a new window automatically. With your installer it
> does not work, it then just says "unable to write to file.pdf". I'm
> not sure how exactly you compiled the pdfview, but I can see that it
> is missing the embedded "System.dll" (by opening it with 7zip as an
> archive), maybe it's because Windows/Linux NSIS cross platform
> compatibility is not so great (I have seen someone stating that on the
> web somewhere). If not too much trouble, could you please find the
> pdfview.exe from my drive folder and replace it in your installer?

This was working before, I thought. But yes, I'll grab that binary.

FYI, I do the NSIS build on Windows. But not for long, I hope...

Riki


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