Georg Baum wrote: >> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>> But this cross-compiler stuff is not needed to build LyX on windows, >>> is it? I guess I do not really understand how building LyX on windows >>> works... > > No, it is not needed. But it is convenient for my personal environment, > because I have a crosscompiler set up for other stuff and can use that > from my linux box where I work most of the time. If I were to do it on > the windows machine, I'd first had to install a decent editor and and > and.
minsys comes with vim. Not ideal for this emacs-junky, but bearable. >> Where's the difficulty of building LyX on Windows using MinGW + MinSys? >> It should be as simple as: >> $ ./autogen.sh >> $ configure <options> >> $ make > > Easy indeed. Of course mingw + minsys need to be installed first. This is truly trivial. I know nothing, nothing, nothing about Windows and I managed to install D:\MinGW and D:\MinSYS using the installers that come with each. Took about 5 mins max. The only difficulty was getting Boost's bjam to work properly which required simply that bjam.exe be placed at D:\MinGW\bin\bjam.exe rather than any place else. > tried, the last time I tried to install cygwin I did not succeed (despite > of the installer). Since then, I tried to avoid installing anything on > windows that is not standard. Sorry if I gave the impression that > crosscompiling is essential for lyx, it is just a personal preference > (that might change over time). Don't you find it amazing that competent programmers are baffled by Windows and its idiosyncrasies? I guess that unix has coloured our judgement. -- Angus
