Hello everybody,
LyX 1.3.6cvs with latest patches built successfully on Win XP using MinGW and a static Qt3/Win Free library!
For those who want to build their own Windows binary, I have attached the revised compile instructions.
Good night, Michael
1 MinGW & MSYS
1.1 Download the following packages from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml: MinGW-3.2.0-rc-3.exe binutils-2.15.94-20050118-1.tar.gz MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1.exe msysDTK-1.0.1.exe 1.2 Install MinGW-3.2.0-rc-3.exe in C:\MinGW 1.3 Install MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1.exe in C:\msys 1.4 Install msysDTK-1.0.1 in C:\msys 1.5 Extract binutils-2.15.94-20050118-1.tar.gz in C:\MinGW (i.e., overwrite the existing binutils) 2. Gettext & Libiconv 2.1 Download the following packages from http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html: gettext-tools-0.13.1.bin.woe32.zip gettext-runtime-0.13.1.bin.woe32.zip libiconv-1.9.1.bin.woe32.zip 2.2 Extract the three packages in C:\MinGW 3 QT3/Windows Free Edition 3.1 Get the latest CVS version Open the MSYS window/bash. In your home directory, enter cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/kde-cygwin login <return> (no password) cvs -z3 -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/kde-cygwin co \ -r QT_WIN32_3_3_BRANCH qt-3 3.2 Compile a static (!) QT library (dynamic linking with MinGW causes nightmares!) Run "cmd.exe" (i.e., open Window command line). Enter the qt-3 directory and enter set QMAKESPEC=win32-g++ setenv.bat configure.bat -release -static 4. Aspell 4.1 Download the following packages from http://aspell.net/ (note: version 0.60.2 does not compile) aspell-0.50.5.tar.gz aspell5-en-6.0-0.tar.bz2 aspell-de-0.50-2.tar.bz2 4.2 Extract all files in your MSYS home directory 4.3 Enter directory aspell-0.50.5 4.4 Enter ./configure --enable-static --disable-shared --prefix=c:/Programme/Aspell-0.50.5 4.5 Edit file ./examples/Makefile: Change line 84 to CC = g++ Change line 175 to INCLUDES = -I${top_srcdir}/interfaces/cc (i.e., strip trailing slash) 4.6 Edit file ./prog/Makefile: Change lines 190-192 (strip trailing slashes) INCLUDES = -I${top_srcdir}/common\ -I${top_srcdir}/interfaces/cc \ -I${top_srcdir}/modules/speller/default \ 4.7 Enter make make install 4.8 Enter directory aspell-de-0.50-2 4.9 Enter export PATH=/c/Programme/Aspell-0.50.5/bin:$PATH ./configure make make install 4.11 Repeat 4.9 and 4.10 for the English dictionary 5. LyX 5.1 Get the latest CVS version Open the MSYS window/bash. In your home directory, enter export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/lyx cvs login lyx cvs checkout -r BRANCH_1_3_X -d lyx-devel-1.3.X lyx-devel 5.2 Get the latest CVS docs cd lyx-devel-1.3.X/lib cvs checkout -r BRANCH_1_3_X lyxdoc mv doc/*.in lyxdoc rm -f -r doc mv lyxdoc doc 5.3 Enter directory "lyx-devel-1.3.X" 5.4 Enter export LDFLAGS="-L/home/Brother/qt-3/lib -lqtmain -lqt-mt -lgdi32 -lole32 -luuid -lwsock32 -lcomdlg32" 5.5 Edit file ./config/qt.m4: Remove line 204 (i.e., remove MinGW support - don't laugh) 5.6 Enter ./autogen.sh 5.7 Edit file ./configure: Change line 12514 (move conftest.$ac_ext in front of FLAGS) ac_link='$CXX -o conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $LDFLAGS $LIBS >&5' 5.8 Enter ./configure --without-x --with-pspell --with-extra-prefix=/c/Programme/Aspell-0.50.5 --with-frontend=qt --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-debug --enable-optimization --with-version-suffix --with-qt-dir=/home/Brother/qt-3 --prefix=/c/Programme/LyX-1.3 For LyX-1.4: ./configure --without-x --with-aspell --with-extra-prefix=/c/Programme/Aspell-0.50.5 --with-frontend=qt --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-debug --enable-optimization --with-version-suffix --with-qt-dir=/home/Brother/qt-3 --prefix=/c/Programme/LyX-1.4 5.9 Enter make make install
