Am Montag, 14. September 2015 um 10:17:02, schrieb Pål Næverlid Sævik <pnsae...@gmail.com> > Salutations! > > I have been using LyX since writing my master's thesis. Now I've used it > for academic papers, coursework, my phd thesis and more. A big thank you > to the development team, the software has saved me a lot of work and > made writing academic documents much easier! > > But, of course, there are always features I would like included and > certain improvements that I can envision. I know c++ pretty well, and am > curious if I would be able to make some contributions to the source > code. But I have never participated in an open source project before, > and the initial effort required to get involved is somewhat daunting... > I tried to compile LyX from the source code, but I use a 64-bit Windows > computer for work, and it seems like this platform is incompatible with > the source code package from the web site.
You may try to compile with help of cmake. There is a batch file
"development/cmake/build.bat"
which you may adapt to your need.
Why do you think, the source code packaging is incompatible to 64bit Windows?
Anyway, you can always use the git repository as source.
> Is there any possibility for packaging the source code so that it would
> work with Win64 and a collection of free (as in no-cost) software?
>
> Regards,
> Pål Næverlid Sævik, University of Bergen, Norway.
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