Angus Leeming wrote:
Maybe I'm confused.
I think that I did build LyX 1.4 once or twice once I'd managed to turn off the
g++ safe iterators but the link time was over one hour with dynamic linking and
about 50 minutes with static linking.
I then went on to use Asger's VS2003 solution file and built the entire thing
from scratch in about 20 minutes. I don't think I went back after that.
Anyway, the dynamic / static conversation was relevant also to LyX 1.3.x...
Angus
It is indeed true that MinGW is extremely slow and building takes
several hours. However, since some Visual C++ functions differ slightly
from the MinGW functions I had problems like console windows popping up
after building with Visual C++. Did you manage to solve that?
Joost
