On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:15:53PM +0000, Luis Rivera wrote: > Having that definition in mind, then none of your exes is a "true native" > windows app. Sorry! ;-)
I have never claimed they are :-) > However, I tested both on Win98, and both work pretty much as expected: > > 1/ LyX "native" (Qt library linked against native WinGUI) actually runs, but > the windowing systems is messed up: misplaces windows, fails to acknowledge > resize, move, maximize, etc. The result is a tiny window, hard to read, yet > fully functional, as for menus and running scripts. So cygwin is someway able to let it not crash. I am sorry, but the malfunctioning that you report is to blamed on Qt/Win. I think that the guys who ported it are not willing to support Win98, but perhaps you could try to convince them. > 2/ LyX "emulated" (Qt library linked against X11GUI) runs on top of X11, yet > it > takes massive amounts of time to start-up. Once it's running, it works OK. > However, it needs the X11 implementation of the Qt libraries, otherwise it > display empty squares instead of characters. (Topic discussed elsewhere in > this > mailing list). Uh? I linked statically Qt/X11 so you only need the standard X11 libs. Are you sure that you simply are not missing some font? > So I'm afraid the best choice for poor Win95/98 lads is to run LyX Cygwin/X11 > compiled against the xforms library. AFAICT, it's pretty efficient on > ancient > hardware. That's what I've been using since late December, with a homebrewed > LyX Cygwin/X11/xforms 140pre2. Haven't had time to compile a new version > with > all the newer patches. Yes, on Cygwin the X11 version is as simple to compile as it is on linux :-) -- Enrico
