All the necessary machinery to activate it is already present in configure and configure.py, so this simple patch to os_win32.C allows using the cygwin tetex with a native win32 LyX.
Log: * src/support/os_win32.C: activate cygwin-tetex support Do with it whatever you think fits better ;-) -- Enrico
Index: src/support/os_win32.C =================================================================== --- src/support/os_win32.C (revision 13601) +++ src/support/os_win32.C (working copy) @@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ string external_path(string const & p) namespace { +bool cygwin_path_fix_ = false; + string const get_long_path(string const & short_path) { std::vector<char> long_path(MAX_PATH); @@ -230,6 +232,20 @@ string internal_path_list(string const & string latex_path(string const & p) { + // We may need a posix style path or a windows style path (depending + // on cygwin_path_fix_), but we use always forward slashes, since it + // gets written into a .tex file. + + if (cygwin_path_fix_ && is_absolute_path(p)) { + string const drive = p.substr(0, 2); + string const cygdrive = "/cygdrive/" + drive.substr(0, 1); + string const dos_path = subst(subst(p, '\\', '/'), drive, cygdrive); + lyxerr[Debug::LATEX] + << "<Cygwin path correction> [" + << p << "]->>[" + << dos_path << ']' << endl; + return dos_path; + } return subst(p, '\\', '/'); } @@ -279,8 +295,10 @@ char path_separator() } -void cygwin_path_fix(bool) -{} +void cygwin_path_fix(bool use_cygwin_paths) +{ + cygwin_path_fix_ = !use_cygwin_paths; +} namespace {