Ruurd Reitsma wrote: > "Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Edwin Leuven wrote: >> >> Here, 'formal support' means merging changes made by Ruurd to get >> LyX to compile with the half-baked compiler (Borland) that was used >> to compile the qt/win32 library provided by Trolltech. Hypocritical >> or not, that is never going to happen for reasons other than >> licencing religion. >> > > Where did Borland come from?
My (poor) memory. > My changes started out as a > win32-native x11 xforms port, to be compiled by gcc (mingw). So just > support for the OS. Then, when the LyX Qt GUI came along, I had to > change some stuff to be able to compile with the Intel compiler & > the M$ linker. That part you wouldnīt want to include in the LyX > source. If you dont want to (ever) include the OS specific part, you > might as well as well cut out the cygwin things. > > Anyway, the GPL Qt from the kde-cygwin project works very well > nowadays. Especially because LyX only uses a very small part of the > Qt lib. I really donīt have the time to properly test and debug > myself, but Iīm willing to help out anyone that want to persue this. > With a (free) Qt binary, itīs fairly easy to cross compile eg on > Linux. I have MinSyS installed on a WinXP machine. I guess I could create a native Windows LyX executable using the gcc toolchain, no? > Ruurd -- Angus
