Building windows installer questions

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 2/11/20 3:30 PM, Yu Jin wrote:
> > I've been trying to build a windows installer to see how it works, but
> > I could not find the files FindProc.dll and INetC.dll, which are
> > mentioned in the Readme.txt file. Any Idea where I can locate them?
>
> I found these 2 plugins on the internet, the description just confused
> me a little bit. So I have tried to build the installer again. Found
> that the NSIS script searches for some more Qt files (in addition to
> the ones specified in the desctiption for compiling) inside of the bin
> folder of LyX, like Qt5OpenGL.dll, so I copied those.

Any updates you want to make to the README will be very welcome. I
pretty much gave up trying to do things that way because of all the
problems I encountered.


> Now NSIS asks me about the iconv.dll. In my Visual Studio solution
> this 3rd party project is a static library, so it does not produce a
> standalone dll file. I have seen however, that in the previous
> releases there is this dll and removing it causes LyX not being able
> to start. Should I be concerned about this? Or just modify the NSIS
> script making it not to search for iconv.dll?

In  my case, that is provided by the mingw cross compiler. But perhaps see:

    https://gnupg.org/download/iconv.html

It is crucial that this library be available to LyX.

Riki



> Am Di., 11. Feb. 2020 um 06:37 Uhr schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck
> <rikiheck at lyx.org <mailto:rikiheck at lyx.org>>:
>
>     On 2/9/20 4:23 AM, Yu Jin wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I've been trying to build a windows installer to see how it
>     works, but
>     > I could not find the files FindProc.dll and INetC.dll, which are
>     > mentioned in the Readme.txt file. Any Idea where I can locate them?
>
>     On my machine, these were just installed with NSIS. There was no need
>     for me to copy those files. They were already where they were meant to
>     be. It is possible I installed some plugin, but I don't recall
>     doing so.
>     I suspect that those steps in the Readme are out of date, therefore.
>     (There's no 'bundle' installer, either, now.)
>
>     Riki
>
>
>
>

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