Kayvan A. Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 12:08:16AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > > Enrico is trying to push the code where it isn't meant to go > > > > He's essentially using the Cygwin build environment to build a native > > Window executable (ie, --without-x) because Lars' insistence that we use > > the latest and greatest versions of the autotools means that the > > MinGW/MSYS platform won't build. (The latest available, working, version > > of automake on MinGW/MSYS is 1.8.)
Notice that a MinGW LyX *can* be built using only cygwin tools. I have done that by patching the Qt sources such that configure.bat produces Makefiles suitable for the cygwin make and then I use "g++ -mno-cygwin" as the compiler. Works pretty well. If someone is interested I will send him my howto. I cannot attach files using this gmane interface and I cannot paste it inline because it has lines longer than 80 chars and this damn'd interface doesn't let me post in this case. > > Enrico is finding "directory separator" issues because he's essentially > > mixing native Windows code (Qt) with Posix code (our os_cygwin.C). > > > > Hmmm, is that a fair summary? Yes, I think so. > > Ah. I see. No, I have nothing useful, then. > > Enrico is exploring territory that I have not traversed. > > My Cygwin builds run under Cygwin/X11. It would be cool to get LyX on Cygwin > working natively with Qt, but I don't know what the issues are. I found what is the problem. The "-platform cygwin-g++-win32" configure switch does a pretty good job. It appropriately pulls in *_win.cpp or *_unix.cpp modules from the Qt sources. But when using the native file dialog it returns a native Windows path of the form "C:\path" (I think because it is external to Qt) and the QDir::isRelativePath() in qdir_unix.cpp correctly identifies it as being a relative posix path, so the current directory is prepended to it and ka-boom. So it will suffice to convert to posix form this path. Only qfiledialog_win.cpp has to be patched. All the rest seems to work. I did not so many checks because I was trying to solve the file dialog problem, but I am able to load and compile a file with all bells and whistles (figures, bibliography, etc.). -- Enrico
