Thanks, installing 32-bit Cygwin solved the problem.
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:13:18AM -0400, Bert Lloyd wrote:
>
>> Thanks again for your advice.
>>
>> I am having a few issues with installation:
>>
>> In step 4 of the installation instructions ("In the "Select Packages"
>> view...") I did not initially see lyx and related packages. After
>> clicking "View" a few times until "Not Installed" was displayed, the
>> relevant packages were displayed (lyx, lyxdict, etc, although not
>> LyXwin as stated in step 4).
>>
>> When installing, I then got popup messages from Cygwin setup "Can't
>> open (null) for reading: No such file" while setup was installing
>> cygspawn-1.0.0-2-src, dtltools-0.6.2-src, dvipost-1.1-4-src,
>> latex2rtf-1.9.17-2.src, lyxsupport-2.0-src.
>>
>> Finally, lyx still finds my windows installation rather than the new
>> cygwin version:
>> $ lyx -version
>> LyX 2.0.8 (2014-04-14)
>> Built on Apr 15 2014, 23:03:32
>> CMake Build
>>
>>
>> I'm assuming I need to edit the cygwin PATH variable, since this still
>> includes
>> /cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.0/bin
>> however, I can't find the right directory in cygwin, i.e.
>> /usr/local/share/lyx/ does not exist, nor can I find lyx.exe,
>> lyxwin.exe, or any lyx directory in my cygwin installation. I'm not
>> sure that I've looked everywhere, but I have looked everywhere I can
>> think of, including
>> C:\cygwin64\bin
>> C:\cygwin64\etc
>> C:\cygwin64\lib
>> C:\cygwin64\usr
>> C:\cygwin64\usr\local
>> C:\cygwin64\usr\share
>>
>> which leads me to suspect my installation was not successful after all.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> From what you write above, I suspect that you installed the 64 bit version
> of Cygwin, while that package was built for the 32 bit version.
> If you don't have a specific need for the 64 bit version, you can try
> installing the 32 bit version. I am sorry but I don't have cygwin64
> and can't build a 64 bit version of the package ATM, because I still
> use an old 32 bit laptop for working in Windows.
>
> --
> Enrico
