On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 06:30:11PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > Persio Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can LyX-1.4.1 be installed on WinME? I tried the V1 setup program and after > > searching (and correctly finding) the dependecies (msys, python, etc.), it > > crashes with message: "Lyx-1 has caused an error in KRNL386.EXE" from > > Windows. > > So the crash is in the installer, right? There's not much we can do about > that. > I *do* know that Luis Rivera was using LyX 1.3.7 successfully on Win98 but he > was unable to use the installer. > > Do you have access to a more modern Windows machine? If so, install LyX on > that, > then zip up the contents of C:\Program Files\LyX (or whereever you install it) > and unzip this .zip on your WinME machine. If you don't have access to such a > machine then drop me a line and I'll zip something up for you. > > You'll need to do a few things by hand that the installer would otherwise do > for > you. The most important of these is that you'll need to run the LyX configure > script. To do that, you'll need to go open up a cmd console on the WinME > machine, go into C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources and run the configure script: > set PATH=C:\Msys\bin;%PATH% > sh configure > > Try taking this to the lyx-users list. There are lots of Windows users on > there > and they have real world experience of getting LyX to run properly on Windows.
I am curious to know if the cygwin version works on WinME. I know for sure that 1.3.4 with X11 worked, as I built and installed it on the machine of a collegue of mine a couple of years ago. I had to enlarge the system environment fiddling with config.sys, but then it worked. -- Enrico
