Am 07.12.2015 um 22:26 schrieb Georg Baum:
>> Then LyX for Windows is dead.
Not at all. But maybe I should stop trying to help with MSVC and use the
time to study cross-compilation with mingw, the ROI is probably much better
for this alternative.
Why don't you install Windows and use MSVC? I mean Windows hast the vast
majority of the market share and this applies also for our users. That's
why I don't understand why I am the only one on Windows.
MSVC is for free and a Windows license is cheap. We have even enough
funding to buy some Windows licenses from the money people spent the LyX
project.
So money is no problem, disk space is also no problem, then there
shouldn't be a problem for anyone here to compile LyX on Windows.
I don't want to sound rude, I just desperately need another developer on
Windows. I am close to quit LyX because I don't know compiler things and
I don't have enough spare time to learn this. When I go who can then
provide a native Windows build of LyX?
Of course I can change unicode.cpp and docstream.cpp but then you will
get compilation problems, right?
The determination of the macro ICONV_CONST would need to be adjusted in
cmake. The cpp files are fine as they are.
How would such a patch look like?
thanks and regards
Uwe
p.s. I was able to compile zlib with MSVC 2013
I am now trying out this:
https://github.com/kahrl/gettext-msvc
