Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-28 Thread Angus Leeming
Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for these detailed instructions. Maybe it would be a good idea to > update the old build_lyxwin script to automate parts of the process. If > this is not going to happen, make sure that it's removed so it won't > confuse people. I'll try and do

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-28 Thread Joost Verburg
Michael Gerz wrote: > I cleaned up and updated my compile instructions (see attachment). If > you like to, you can have a look at my file and update INSTALL.Win32 > accordingly (sorry, I will have no time before next weekend). Thanks for these detailed instructions. Maybe it would be a good idea

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Gerz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think INSTALL.Win32 is seriously out of date and needs to be looked over by someonw who knows this stuff... Here's a patch where I'm *guessing* - it should *not* be applied as it is. I changed 'MinSYS' be changed into 'MSYS', is that correct? Does the procedure descr

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-27 Thread Stephen Harris
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "So, what is the situation wrt windows? Who is planning to provide binaries? How?" - Michael Gerz wrote: "I can have a look at Angus' scripts and see if they still work (with the exception of automake)."

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-27 Thread Angus Leeming
Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is indeed true that MinGW is extremely slow and building takes > several hours. However, since some Visual C++ functions differ slightly > from the MinGW functions I had problems like console windows popping up > after building with Visual C++. Did

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-27 Thread Joost Verburg
Angus Leeming wrote: Maybe I'm confused. I think that I did build LyX 1.4 once or twice once I'd managed to turn off the g++ safe iterators but the link time was over one hour with dynamic linking and about 50 minutes with static linking. I then went on to use Asger's VS2003 solution file and b

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-27 Thread Angus Leeming
Michael Gerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Angus Leeming wrote: > > >I don't think that the 1.4 stuff has ever worked, because I never ever could > >build LyX 1.4 with mingw/msys. > > > > > Really? Why did we have all the dynamic vs. static Qt lib discussion if > you never managed to build

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-27 Thread Georg Baum
Am Montag, 27. Februar 2006 18:49 schrieb Michael Gerz: > Let's assume that Lars or JM have run automake before LyX 1.4.0 is shipped. We don't need to assume that, it is a must, part of the corresponding makefile rule and has happened so far for every release. Georg

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-27 Thread Michael Gerz
Angus Leeming wrote: I don't think that the 1.4 stuff has ever worked, because I never ever could build LyX 1.4 with mingw/msys. Really? Why did we have all the dynamic vs. static Qt lib discussion if you never managed to build 1.4.0? Michael

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-27 Thread Michael Gerz
Paul wrote: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/automake.htm I tested this version some time ago but I ran into a problem (I don't remember the details). Let's assume that Lars or JM have run automake before LyX 1.4.0 is shipped. Michael

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-27 Thread Michael Gerz
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Paul a écrit : I've never used automake before (I don't do much in the way of programming) but I noticed that version 1.9.4 is available here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/automake.htm I tried this version of automake as well. No success. Probably a pa

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-27 Thread Angus Leeming
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The autotools are perl scripts, yes. However, if you're feeding a > > native Windows tool a file path like /foo/bar then it's quite likely > > to interpret that as switches, no? > I don't know. I see that there is no 'aclocal.m4' in my SVN reposito

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Angus Leeming a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/automake.htm Hum, this is a perl script not an executable. I installed it in the mingw directory and tried (under msys) to launch 'autogen.sh' from trunk svn. It stops with: Using a

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-27 Thread Angus Leeming
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/automake.htm > > Hum, this is a perl script not an executable. I installed it in the > mingw directory and tried (under msys) to launch 'autogen.sh' from trunk > svn. It stops with: > > Using automake (GN

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-27 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Paul a écrit : I've never used automake before (I don't do much in the way of programming) but I noticed that version 1.9.4 is available here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/automake.htm Hum, this is a perl script not an executable. I installed it in the mingw directory and tried (u

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Angus, do you have any plans to work on the Win32 build scripts? >> IIRC the 1.3.7 and 1.4.0 files are not in sync. Angus> I don't think that the 1.4 stuff has ever worked, because I Angus> never ever could build LyX 1.4 with mingw/msy

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-26 Thread Paul
I've never used automake before (I don't do much in the way of programming) but I noticed that version 1.9.4 is available here: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/automake.htm The website says: The GnuWin32 project provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, or tools with a similar open source l

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-26 Thread Angus Leeming
Michael Gerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Joost Verburg wrote: > > > INSTALL.Win32 is indeed outdated. It also points to the old kde-cygwin. > > > > However, the Windows build scripts also do not work in the current > > state. The reason is that automake 1.9 is not yet available for > > Win

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-25 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Enrico Forestieri a écrit : > > Abdelrazak Younes ...> writes: > > > >> For Msys/mingw binaries, I might be able to help if needed. Packaging is > >> something else... Uwe might propose something and Angus might come out > >> of his retirement

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Michael Gerz a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Building of svn version with current MSYS DTK is not possible because of old automake. But I guess that automake is not required for building a released candidate. Reading the user list, I see that some people managed to use Cygwin for that task

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-25 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Enrico Forestieri a écrit : Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: For Msys/mingw binaries, I might be able to help if needed. Packaging is something else... Uwe might propose something and Angus might come out of his retirement . I can see some well positioned outsiders (Enrico? Micha

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-25 Thread Michael Gerz
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: So, what is the situation wrt windows? Who is planning to provide binaries? How? Up to now, I used my self-made recipe to generate LyX binaries (see former discussion on "static" vs. "dynamic" qt library). I can have a look at Angus' scripts and see if they stil

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-25 Thread Michael Gerz
Joost Verburg wrote: INSTALL.Win32 is indeed outdated. It also points to the old kde-cygwin. However, the Windows build scripts also do not work in the current state. The reason is that automake 1.9 is not yet available for Windows. Currently I can only get it to compile using automake in a

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-25 Thread Michael Gerz
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Building of svn version with current MSYS DTK is not possible because of old automake. But I guess that automake is not required for building a released candidate. Reading the user list, I see that some people managed to use Cygwin for that task too (using Qtwin port w

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:48:20AM +0100, Joost Verburg wrote: >> However, the Windows build scripts also do not work in the current >> state. The reason is that automake 1.9 is not yet available for >> Windows. Andre> Why do we ne

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-25 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:48:20AM +0100, Joost Verburg wrote: > However, the Windows build scripts also do not work in the current > state. The reason is that automake 1.9 is not yet available for Windows. Why do we need automake 1.9 at all? I.e. waht crucial feature of 1.9 do we and need to u

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-24 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For Msys/mingw binaries, I might be able to help if needed. Packaging is > something else... Uwe might propose something and Angus might come out > of his retirement . I can see some well positioned outsiders (Enrico? > Michael?). It is my intent

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-24 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes a écrit : "Joost" == Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> However, the Windows build scripts also do not work in the Joost> current state. The reason is that automake 1.9 is not yet Joost> available for Windows. Currently I can only get it to compile Joost> usin

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Joost" == Joost Verburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> However, the Windows build scripts also do not work in the Joost> current state. The reason is that automake 1.9 is not yet Joost> available for Windows. Currently I can only get it to compile Joost> using automake in a Cygwin envir

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "christian" == christian ridderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: christian> Hi, I think INSTALL.Win32 is seriously out of date and christian> needs to be looked over by someonw who knows this stuff... christian> Here's a patch where I'm *guessing* - it should *not* be christian> applied as i

Re: Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-24 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think INSTALL.Win32 is seriously out of date and needs to be looked over by someonw who knows this stuff... Here's a patch where I'm *guessing* - it should *not* be applied as it is. INSTALL.Win32 is indeed outdated. It also points to the old kde-cygwin. However

Problem with INSTALL.Win32 -

2006-02-23 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi, I think INSTALL.Win32 is seriously out of date and needs to be looked over by someonw who knows this stuff... Here's a patch where I'm *guessing* - it should *not* be applied as it is. I changed 'MinSYS' be changed into 'MSYS', is that correct? Does the procedure described in this file even