On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 11:15 +0200, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > I am trying to rebuild lyx with QT5 enabled instead of QT4.
Good idea, since Qt4 is obsolete and unmaintained (both upstream and downstream). > The build is fine and it seems to start fine, but opening new windows > like "open file" only produces a blank and black window. > > At running I see only this output, that is not clear if it is related > > QXcbShmImage: shmget() failed (88: Function not implemented) for size > 1407600 (690x510) > QXcbShmImage: shmget() failed (88: Function not implemented) for size > 518976 (318x408) > Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is > discouraged. > QXcbShmImage: shmget() failed (88: Function not implemented) for size > 12000 (100x30) Do you have cygserver running, and was it started before the X server? This is a requirement for the MIT-SHM extension, otherwise you need to set QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1 in your environment. > and at build time there is a new warning coming from the compiler > > /usr/include/qt5/QtGui/qtransform.h: In member function ‘QTransform& > QTransform::operator=(QTransform&&)’: > /usr/include/qt5/QtGui/qtransform.h:81:46: warning: ‘void* memcpy(void*, > const void*, size_t)’ writing to an object of type ‘class QTransform’ > with no trivial copy-assignment; use copy-assignment or > copy-initialization instead [-Wclass-memaccess] > 81 | { memcpy(this, &other, sizeof(QTransform)); return *this; } > | ^ I think this can be ignored for now, and will likely be fixed by a future update to qt5. -- Yaakov -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple