On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:21:24AM +0200, Georg Baum wrote: > Am Dienstag, 3. Oktober 2006 11:02 schrieb Michael Gerz: > > Hi, > > > > since a couple of weeks, LyX 1.5.0 crashes instantly when using MinGW. > > IMHO the situation is inacceptable, because people are forced to use a > > commercial compiler now in order to generate a Windows binary. > > > > Question: What was the reason to drop MinGW support? Is there a quick > > fix that allows me to run LyX (even if it behaves insensible in some > > cases). > > Support for MinGW has not actively been dropped. Fact is that MinGW (and > cygwin) lack some library support for 4byte character types that we need. > Face it: MSVC is better than gcc on windows in this area.
sigh > Enrico posted some cygwin workarounds, they should work on MinGW, too. Basically you should use the STLPort library. ATM this suffices, however I was not able to compile some test programs by Georg using stlport and had to hack it. Using a patched stlport library they compile and run, but without full support for functions such as towupper, for example. -- Enrico
