On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 08:26:14PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > I am trying to compile lyx with qt2 on Cygwin. Has anyone seen this type of > error before? [...] > ../../../../lyx/src/frontends/qt2/QPrefs.C:444: error: invalid initialization > of reference of type 'const std::string&' from expression of type 'QString'
I think it's the difference of configuring Qt with -no-stl vs -stl (modulo spelling mistakes). AFAIR there are explicit conversion function for the two string types in LyX (toqstr? fromqstr?) that should be used as these work with both configurations. Andre'