On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:55:43 -0800, Stephen Harris wrote: > Yes, it was fairly easy with your hint. I put the epstopdf and > convert scripts in their own directoy at the beginning of PATH. > Shouldn't I do something else to connect them to epstopdf.exe > in Miktex\texmf and C:\ImageMagick\convert.exe ? I don't > have Tetex installed and I think not Cygwin's ImageMagick. > It seems too easy!
You should do nothing apart assuring that they are in the system PATH which you can set through the "Advanced" tab in "Control Panel->System" or use path_prefix (see below). >> Looking forward for a working LyX/Cygwin ;-) >> >> -- >> Enrico >> > > Thanks for all your help and tremendous effort in figuring > out a working installation. I think it is miraculous that you > could figure out all those configure switches. Now when > somebody asks about Cygwin and LyX they can be pointed > to your Wiki page. I'm writing this as I wait for make to finish. > > Thar she blows! I had to copy lyx(-qt).exe to c:\cygwin\bin > because it complained about missing cywin1.dll and cygz.dll No, don't do that. Simply add C:\cygwin\bin to the PATH as explained above. You could set path_prefix as in the native version through LyX preferences. The path_prefix should be written in posix (cygwin) syntax and I suggest that you put as the first elements the following ones: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin and then fill in whatever you like using ':' as a separator. In this way you can put the epstopdf and convert scripts in /usr/local/bin which is searched first. Once you filled in path_prefix in LyX as I suggested above, I think that you could also remove C:\cygwin\bin from the system PATH, but I have not checked it (Hmm... may be it doesn't work...) -- Enrico
