On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 05:11:55PM +0200, Sivan Toledo wrote:
> 
> I am trying to build lyx 1.3.3 with a qt frontend on cygwin. I got to 
> the point that qt and lyx both build successfully (no changes to the lyx 
> sources, and almost none to qt-x11). Qt runs the examples, but lyx dies 
> before it opens the first window. It says it crashed with a segmentation 
> fault and asks to report the bug.
> 
> Here are the details:
> 
> I built qt-x11 with gcc-2.95.3-10 (cygwin special); I couldn't get it to 
> compile with gcc 3. I did this by using the cygwin mkspec, but changing 
> to gcc-2 and g++2, by telling it not to use DNS, and not to build the 
> network module. I also forced the OS and WS to UNIX and X11, because qt 
> discovers (using a gcc macro) that it is on cygwin and tries to do a 
> windows build, which fails because you can't do it in the GPL version. 
> So this works, the examples run well. This is a static qt, not a dll. I 
> couldn't build the dll.
> 

If you get this to work, I would like to know how. I have never managed to
built lyx-qt on Cygwin. I always build lyx-xforms.

Best regards,

---Kayvan

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