Joost Verburg wrote:
Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
KDE offers two sets of library for Mingw and MSVC users.
but I would recommend you to use the libraries from this file:
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/lyx-windows-deps-msvc2008.zip
You might want to reconsider this and look at what the KDE guys came
up with. Actually I think it would be great if LyX were part of the
"KDE on Windows" installation.
This file contains all the LyX dependencies, which are of course not a
part of "KDE on Windows".
You misunderstood me, see below.
Regarding gettext, I doubt they actually have a version that can be
compiled with MSVC. It looks like they compile the gettext libraries
using MinGW. Note that gettext is a pure C library, so it is possible to
link a MSVC application to the MinGW library.
So did you apply some patch to let it compile with MSVC? Maybe you can
share it with the KDE people?
However, I currently only need MSVC to compile all LyX dependencies and
want to keep it that way. It's not only easier to maintain but also has
the advantage that all libraries can share the same runtimes.
Oh I agree but the advantage of the "KDE on windows" repository is that
they do the work ;-)
I'm not sure what you mean with LyX being a part of the "KDE on Windows"
installation. The goal of the "KDE on Windows" project is to port the
standard KDE applications to Windows. LyX is not a KDE application and
already has a native Windows version.
I know that and I only meant that LyX could _also_ be distribuited by
the KDE people. FYI, the "KDE on Windows" installer is not really
specific to KDE, it is a cygwin-like installer and can be used to
install just about anything, including LyX and LateX if they want to.
They are basically creating a Free software distribution for Windows;
it's very impressive, really. It's like the cygwin system but for MSVC
packages.
Abdel.
