Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > OK thanks Enrico, I'll take a look. I was under the impression that your > method would need a cygwin installation a user but if you tell me that > this is not mandatory. Maybe we could switch to your version altogether > instead of the MSYS based solution. What do you think Angus?
Well, I use cygwin tools to build both a native and a cygwin dependent LyX because, already having cygwin, I don't want to also install MinGW (which, btw, is a project forked from cygwin). Using cygwin tools requires patching the Qt sources in both cases, so I think that the official supporting of MinGW is right. In the users list someone asked for a cygwin version of LyX and I thought why not? A posix environment is a good thing and perhaps lyxclient would be usable, opening the possibility of reverse DVI search in LyX under Windows. So, for those who want a cygwin version I set up this wiki page: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin (well, Christian set up it for me and then I added content to it ;-)) whereas I didn't publish the other method as I got no request for it until I saw your post and thought it would have been of interest to you. In summary: - The automake problem will be solved for sure, so there will be no point in requiring cygwin for building LyX. - Who already has cygwin *and* wants a cygwin version, can make use of the wiki page above. -- Enrico
