On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 03:33:04PM +0200, Claus Hentschel wrote: > First of all: The new Lyx really looks great ;-) > > I'm still preparing the Win32 port of Lyx 1.2.0. So far I've successfully > compiled 1.2.0 on Win32/Cygwin after some manually changes in config.h. These > changes were necessary because autoconf/configure wasn't able to check the > existance of some standard C functions like memmove(), strchr() and others. I > am using autoconf 2.13!
Huh. I did not have any of these problems.
I am using the latest cygwin, autoconf 2.13, automake-1.5.
I just "configure" and "make".
> I'll send more details when the Win32-release will be finished!
>
> New Lyx 1.2.0 needs epstopdf as well as ImageMagick. So I've installed
> ImageMagick (for Windows) and compiled epstopdf. Both packages are not part of
> Windows.
Yes, I had to do the same.
> But I have trouble to work with my old files as well as with new files using
> image files. Up to 1.1.6 you've better named an image file without an
> extension. Lyx internally looked for an eps file and if pdflatex is called the
> corresponding pdf file was looked for. That does not work in 1.2.0, right? You
> should name an image file including any extension! (So it seems me and many
> others do have to change all of my lyx files)
Hmmm... No such problems here. Send me a small tarball with lyx file and
images.
> Although a gs version is present, Lyx isn't able to present any eps file. If I
> do include an eps file I can see a box with the relative filename and the
> message
> Error converting to loadable format
Yes. I had to compile an older version of gs to get around this. gs-6.51.
> Awaiting any answer ...
> Claus
>
> P.S.: Please mail directly to me because I'm not described in lyx-devel!
Hope this helps,
---Kayvan
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