Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Cygwin runs on top of Windows. It works because it is developed by > competent people **who** know how to deal with various Windows flavors. >
Agree... > The path handling is not a mess in my copy of LyX, perhaps it is > in the official sources. Attached you can find a patch for 1.4.x > letting you use a Cygwin LyX as a native application with respect > to paths. I think it "looks" native because the interface to the user doesn't go through the command prompt; however, it is may not a native application. To be a "native" application it had to go straight to the Windows GUI. In this case, it goes through X11. > If you want to try a Cygwin LyX without X11, please have a look at > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin. However, I am not sure that it > will work on Win98 as it uses Qt/Win without the cygwin parachute. I'll give it a shot! > > If you do not want have trouble compiling it, then you could try > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.1/lyx-1.4.1-cygwin.tar.gz > Is there some http mirror for this path? My sysadmin is somewhat paranoid, and set up proxies blocking access to anything but http or email (smtp/pop). You're right, I want to see if your XP/Cygwin compiled LyX runs on top of Win98 (maybe Win95 too). > > wehere you can find both LyX/Win and LyX/X11. Be warned that the > patch for native path styles is not applied to this copy, though. > Now I'm not sure I'm following you. You say you can compile LyX on Cygwin and make it run *without* the X11 interface? So you say you only use the Cygwin tree instead of MingW? If that's the case, it may be that your LyX *really* is a "native" app, but you use Cygwin's shell to run the scripts. If, on the contrary, you need to install the X11 GUI, but don't have to set it up manually, then I think you don't really have a *true native* Win app. In the end, I think it doesn't matter whether it is "true native" or "naturalized"; as long as it actually works, I'm happy with that. Thanks! Luis
