I finally managed to build LyX 1.3.3 (essentially no source changes, except for 3 declarations that I had to comment out) on top of Qt 3 on cygwin, as an X11 client. See the details at

http://www.tau.ac.il/~stoledo/lyx_cygwin.html

The page mentions a few problems in the sources (these few declarations), in the makefiles, and also in the run-time scripts, like convertDefault.sh. It would be good to fix them in the sources. I'll be happy to test.

Also, I think that the run-time configure script could use a little upgrade on Windows. This is because the path names that LyX emits now (e.g. inside generated LaTeX files) are good for Win32 TeX's (I use fpTeX), but they do not work with the cygwin teTeX. It would be better to figure out at configure time what the LaTeX engine expects and to emit paths accordingly.

But my setup works beautifully, including in Hebrew.

Thanks to the developers for this great software and to all those who helped me with this port.

Regards, Sivan Toledo

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