Compiling Qt-TeXmacs under Windows

1.Download and install the build environment

In order to compile TeXmacs under Windows, you need Qt, MinGW and a certain number of libraries. We have simplified the installation procedure for these dependencies by creating a single zip-file which contains all necessary stuff. Thus, you first have to download (462 Mb)

This file must be uncompressed in the directory C:\. Uncompression in other directories is not supported. Copy the file C:\TmBuildEnv\MSYS\MSYS.lnk to your desktop.

2.Download TeXmacs

Click on the MSYS icon on your desktop in order to launch a Unix terminal and fetch the latest Svn version of TeXmacs as follows:

mkdir ~/texmacs
cd ~/texmacs
svn co svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/texmacs/trunk/src
svn co svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/texmacs/trunk/doc

You will also need to download the TeXmacs Windows fonts and uncompress them in the directory ~/texmacs/src/TeXmacs:

cd ~/texmacs/src/TeXmacs
wget http://ftp.texmacs.org/TeXmacs/fonts/TeXmacs-windows-fonts-1.0-noarch.tar.gz
tar -zxvf TeXmacs-windows-fonts-1.0-noarch.tar.gz

3.Compile TeXmacs

Go to the directory with the TeXmacs sources

cd ~/texmacs/src

Configure using

./configure --enable-qt \
  CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib"

Build TeXmacs

make WIN_BUNDLE

Run

~/texmacs/distr/TeXmacs-Windows/bin/texmacs.exe

The first time you run TeXmacs, the program will crash. Subsequent runs should work fine.

4.Creation of an installer

After building TeXmacs, you can create an installer using

cd ~/texmacs/src/misc/windows
iscc TeXmacs.iss

The installer can be found at ~/texmacs/distr/texmacs-installer.exe.