Richard Heck wrote: > If you're running LyX from a terminal, you should get some output > explaining why reconfiguration is failing.
Unfortunately this is more complicated on windows than on other operating systems. An application is either a console application (with stdin/stdout/stderr and usually without GUI windows), or a GUI application (without stdin/stdout/stderr and usually with GUI windows). If you start a console application it will always open a terminal window, and this is the reason why one usually does not want this for an application that creates GUI windows. See also the big comment in src/support/os_win32.cpp. By default, LyX is compiled as GUI app, meaning any stuff sent to stderr or stdout will vanish in a black hole, and nobody will ever see it. LyX can be compiled as a console app by calling cmake with CONSOLE=FORCE. Georg
