David A. Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you also tried to build a cygwin version? Since cygwin already suppies > tex/latex/perl/python/sh/sed, etc., and since many people (like me) make > extensive use of cygwin, having a cygwin package (that understands its > posix-like paths) would be very valuable.
Hi Dave. I also extensively make use of cygwin, but the last cygwin version I built was 1.3.5. At that time I also had to compile Qt, but now I see that there is a cygwin package for it. So, apart some minor gotchas, I think that the procedure to build a cygwin version is not more than the usual configure, make, make install route. This would give you a X11 version, so you have to start XWin. It would be interesting to build a cygwin Qt but with win32 gui. I saw that there is a cygwin-g++-win32 target in the Qt sources that gives you exactly that, but when I tried this option I had some problems with include files. If I remember correctly, the problem was that some definitions were available only in the includes brought in by the -mno-cygwin switch. I tried to move the necessary mingw includes from /usr/include/mingw to /usr/local/include/mingw and force their inclusion instead of the cygwin ones, but then I had some clashing and eventually gave up. I still think that with some tampering it could be done, but I don't see it as necessary. After all, the cygwin programs understand both posix and win32 paths. The only problem I had with a native LyX using cygwin tools was that /usr/bin/python.exe is a symlink to the real executable /usr/bin/python2.4.exe, and native programs don't understand cygwin symlinks. See, for example, http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00967.html This problem (and also similar ones) can be easily overcomed by using batch files. If you put the following batch file: $ cat python.bat @echo off python2.4 %* exit in LyX/bin, which is searched before all other dirs in the path, you're done. (Replace "%*" with "%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9" if you use something less than win2k). I am quite happy with a native LyX + cygwin. -- Enrico
