Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note that Ruurd Reitsma has had success in the past using a cygwin tool > that takes a g++ command and converts it to an msvc one. Do a google > search on "wrapmsvc". Personally, I never succeeded in getting it to work, > but then I never really tried that hard. > > The incentive to use it is that it would enable you to use LyX's existing > automake/conf stuff to generate config.h and build the Makefiles and to > then use MSYS's standard "make" to build LyX using MSVC. > > I attach a script that I've used in the past to play with all this. > However, I don't think that I ever got configure to run successfully and I > certainly didn't spend any time investigating why not. > > Perhaps you'll find this useful though? >
Hi Angus! Welcome back ;-) The problem is that you cannot compile Qt with the free MSVC, so even if you can build LyX, you would be stuck. I know that an MSVC program can call a C compiled MinGW DLL, but what about C++? OTOH I was investigating MSVC because I cannot compile a dynamic Qt library with MinGW (I only have 256Mb RAM and the thing needs much more). So the MSVC path is moot for me. -- Enrico
