Hello, Got a brand new report on tex2lyx on win95/98.
Well, I simply compiled the source code distributed on lyx-1.4.0pre1.tar.gz on cygwin, packed it together with the relevant dll's (cygwin1.dll and cygz.dll), copied and ran it on win95... succesfully. Two points, though. I had to patch the source file on src/support/os.C, commenting out /*#elif defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(__CYGWIN32__) #include "os_cygwin.C"*/ uncommenting these lines results in the script's crash, since there is no os_cygwin.C file distributed here. Once commented out, the script dealt with the source file as with any unix distribution... weird. Finally, I had to make a copy of another tex2lyx.1 file into src/tex2lyx/tex2lyx.man, since the latter was missing, crashing the shell script. That way, your shell script make_tex2lyx_dist.sh ran fine. Two conjectures: 1/ you may be able to compile LyX to run "natively" on cygwin, perhaps using the gtk frontend. I got no time tonight to try that, but seems like feasible. 2/ you no longer need to define cygwin to compile on cygwin---against Claus Hentschel's port, I guess. One more thing: apparently, the culprit was the way mingw tries to link to libraries shipped with newer versions of windows; since cygwin circumvents these libraries (maybe through cygwin1.dll), the problem goes away. Of course, that leaves the problem of building "native" win32 (95/98) executables without a proper solution, but you guys seem to be moving in the right direction. Cheers, Luis. =========================== Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are unreliable, unmaintainable, and unsafe. Send plain text, rtf, pdf, or W3C html instead. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html J.L.Rivera ______________________________________________________ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/
