On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:58:43PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am curious to know if the cygwin version works on WinME. I know for > > sure that 1.3.4 with X11 worked, as I built and installed it on the > > machine of a collegue of mine a couple of years ago. I had to enlarge > > the system environment fiddling with config.sys, but then it worked. > > I introduced a couple of post-Win98 functions into LyX 1.3.6 (and which are > also > used in subsequent versions of LyX) It can still be made to work with Win98, > but > only if configure can find Microsoft's NewAPIs.h when you build the thing. I > don't have the sources to hand right now, but I think that you'll see > NewAPIs.h > in support/os_win32.C, support/package.C.in and > boost/libs/filesystem/src/operations.cpp. > > I'm unsure whether WinME would also need an exe that was compiled against > NewAPIs.h...
That's not necessary with cygwin. You simply use the normal posix calls and it is the cygwin dll which copes with the different Windows flavors. And I must say that it does that quite well. So, you don't have to care for the Windows version as it is masked for you by cygwin ;-) They say that it works from Windows 95 onwards with the exception of Windows CE. I have only tried Windows ME a couple of years ago and it worked. I am not sure that the cygwin version using native Qt works, as it is not mediated by cygwin (I mean that it directly calls Windows functions and I don't know to what version they apply), but I am almost sure that the cygwin Qt/X11 version works. I put both versions at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.1/lyx-1.4.1-cygwin.tar.gz but had almost no feedback apart a couple of bug reports. I think that, counting me, there are at least 3 LyX/Cygwin users. The lesser, the better? :-) -- Enrico
