"Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Reading this thread
> http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2001-11/thread00727-0.html
>
> A Windows application does not have any stdout/stderr by default, all
> output vanishes without a trace for you.But if you want
Asger,
you might want to look into am2msdev
ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/users/pfkeb/automake/. This tool will at least
provide you with a skeleton. And, I believe the source even includes a
project file, so no scary mingw/cygwin tools. There also seems to be an
options to add visual studio directi
Hi Angus,
The irritating thing with Windows is that all stdout messages get lost
somewhere when using the GUI subsystem. You would have to add additional
code to handle all debugging messages. Now that isn´t that hard to do, but
another issue was that some shell script stopped working when linking
Angus,
maybe you want to include this at some stage. The procedure is quite simple:
windres -i lyx.rc -o lyx.o
and include lyx.o in the final link step.
Cheers,
Ruurd
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"Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >>>>> "Ruurd" == Ruurd Reitsma
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Ruurd, about your distributions: I seem to remember that LyX/Win 1.3.3
> was distrib
Michael,
> IMHO there is no need to worry about the behaviour of Qt 3.2.1/Win any
more.
>
> Yesterday evening, one of the guys of the Free Qt/Win32 team fixed the
font
> metrics bug. I checked the fix and everything looks pretty good. Even the
> display of math formula has improved _significantly_
"Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >>>>> "Ruurd" == Ruurd Reitsma
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hmm, these values seem very weird to me... I cannot understand how qt
> 3.2.1 could have been s
"Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> The 3.2.1nc value is strange. It may be related to the QFontMetrics
> change I just mentioned elsewhere in this thread. It may be that qt
> 3.2.x is not usable for us in windows, or that we have to translate
> the
"Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >>>>> "Ruurd" == Ruurd Reitsma
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Ruurd> On the Lyx side, this helps:
> [...]
> Ruurd> At least, with Non-Commercial
"Michael Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> However, we have a serious problem with the computation of font metrics. I
> have generated a small test case that illustrates the problem:
>
> #include
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv) {
> QApplication app(argc,
> Here I start swapping. 512MB is just not enough :-(
Must be that 1024MB then
Ruurd
> > Second issue: As you have already pointed out, the menu separator is not
> > displayed correctly. The same is true for math formulas. For instance,
> > create some simple math formula and then select it: The selection
> > background is shown _below_ the formula! Seems like some offset is
> > co
Peter,
>My company uses LyX - seeing the fixes that have gone into 1.3.5 I'd
>love to have a binary for win32, I believe you two have one.
I´ve just made one available at the regular spot. There are still issues
with the math fonts however.
Ruurd
> Congratulations. I bet it took a while. Here it takes me 24 minutes just
to
> link the thing.
>
Linking with a static Qt lib takes 12 seconds here;-)
Ruurd
, and sh.exe
stolen from msys.
Ruurd
@echo off
rem Configure script for Win32
rem calls msys sh.exe
rem written by Ruurd Reitsma
echo %0
SET PATH=%~p0..\..\bin;%PATH%
echo %PATH%
%~p0..\..\bin\sh.exe --login %0
--- Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:48:40PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > Ruurd> It´s already included in mingw, not in MSVC.
> >
> > Ahh, OK. I guess it would be a good idea to incorporate patches for
> > mingw first, and then msvc. Is that doable?
"Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Incidentally, Ruurd, do you need this wrapper at all? Why not patch the
> scripts in config to generate Makefiles that 'just do the right thing'?
I did try that at first, but I wasn´t very successfull. If remember
correc
"Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> Would it be possible to use MinGW and MinSYS instead of Cygwin? If so,
I'll try
> it out at some stage.
>
For building, yes, but you would need the msys developer kit to compile
wrapmsvc.exe. MinSYS being a cygwin deri
"Asger Kunuk Ottar Alstrup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Ruurd Reitsma wrote:
> Could you maybe wrap that wrapper script up, along with a README for how
> to do this? I would suggest to add this to the CVS distribution
By request, this the wrapper tool that I
use to compile LyX with MSVC. All thanks to the Coin3D project. Cygwin is used
to run the autotools and make, but compilation is native Win32 with
MSVC.
IMO this is the most time efficient way to do it. I
have fiddled with Visual Studio projects and
Hi Peter,
"Peter Kümmel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Here's the project file for qmake: lyx-devel/src/lyx.pro
>
With MSVC, I use a wrapper tool which makes cl.exe grog gcc arguments. Saves
you the trouble of maintaining your own project files, besides the autotoo
"Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Ruurd has changed the invocation of system() under DOS to:
> system("start /min ");
> from
> system("start /min/n ");
>
> Ruurd, what's the reason for this? Is it just a typo in the original
> code?
The /n came from th
"Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> I have MinSyS installed on a WinXP machine. I guess I could create a
> native Windows LyX executable using the gcc toolchain, no?
>
Yep. The regular mingw distro (gcc etc.) + msys will do. There are
instructions for Qt
"Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Edwin Leuven wrote:
>
> Here, 'formal support' means merging changes made by Ruurd to get LyX to
> compile with the half-baked compiler (Borland) that was used to compile
> the qt/win32 library provided by Trolltech. Hypo
"Georg Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>
> I might try the cross compiler if I find some time. What is the difficult
> part with qt?
>
It´s very difficult to build with a cross compiler. Much easier to build Qt
on windows, and then use the lib on another OS.
Ruu
In the Mathed example file, math characters are 1 meter tall, and when
scrolling around LyX crashes.
Ruurd
"Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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How far is it from being usable? What kind of weird things happens
with mathed? We should probably try to i
Actually, someone already made an installer for Win32. Just haven´t had the
time to do anything with it...
Ruurd
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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Wow, that's great!
Does that mean that a LyX Win32 installer can be created at some point?
Thanks for d
Hi there,
just want to let you know that it is now possible to build a native LyX on
the evil OS with just free tools. All of this because the qt port in the kde
on cygwin project is maturing. What you need is:
-LyX 1.3.x CVS
-latest mingw with GCC 3.4 http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml
-MSYS wi
Micheal,
>
> The reason why I ask is that I am wondering whether I should buy
> the Qt book with the free and native Qt 3.2/Win non-commercial edition.
> Has anybody tested it?
>
> (If someone else is eager to do the Win32 port (Ruurd? Kuba?) and needs
> the new Qt library for that purpose, I am w
> The most recent .NET compiler (7.1) has better standard conformance
> than gcc, according to an extensive test in a recent edition of the C++
> users journal. I believe you can download a non-optimising version with
> the .NET SDK for free on Microsoft's web-site.
>
Last time I tried the .NET fr
> That's only for commerical Qt, obviously.
>
> Note that I'm currently working on getting a whole crosscompilation setup
> working with Qt enterprise 3.3.0 for windows, so I'll be making some rpms
> with distributable stuff (like updated crossmingw32) and will be willing
to
> compile stuff for any
Back up again on the old site for a while...
Ruurd
"Ruurd Reitsma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> My crappy dsl provider thinks it´s neccesary to disable my account while
> moving the physical connection to a new location
>
> Will
My crappy dsl provider thinks it´s neccesary to disable my account while
moving the physical connection to a new location
Will put up a new page elsewhere some time soon.
Ruurd
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> What do do about it?
> Just re
--- Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andre> I thought Ruurd offered (d) as a clean way for us but with less
> Andre> hassle for the user than in the other 'clean' solution. I was
> Andre> just trying to say that the hassle for the user is not much
> Andre> less than to let him comp
> Ruurd> To get back at my original question: Can I put it on the lyx
> Ruurd> ftp site when I'm done?
>
> Well, I still do not know what is involved... Of course, the storage
> on the server is not a problem. What do you have in your distribution?
> Didn't I read something about bits of perl or py
> Just to mention another option:
>
> I've used 'InnoSetup' at the time I had to create a Windows version of my
> programms. That creates nice installers which can create icons on the
> desktop etc and had the benefit that InnoSetup itself as well as the
> created installers ran fine under Wine.
>
> I can compile it for you using latest commercial Qt3 (enterprise) as long
as
> you put proper exclusion in the license.
>
> I have done it several times with other software, and it's perfectly OK
> (legal).
>
> Since lyx compiles on gcc 3.2, it should compile with little problem on
bcc5.5
> that
"Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Did you check the various licenses to make sure that you have the
> right to distribute this? And what about the Qt license?
To be honest, I have no rights to do this. So, please don't sue me ;-)
The licence shoul
Hi,
Just created another win32 build, based on 1.3.0:
http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/
This fixes the preferences bug and the table bug. Stripped-down versions of
Perl and Python are now included.
Known bugs:
-Screen updates too often; visible when browsing menus. Actually, the whole
b
Hi,
just made a fresh build for win32. This fixes the dialog crashes.
It's available at:
http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/
All the patches are over there also. Is anyone still interested in adding
some of it to CVS, or should I just stop asking?
Cheers,
Ruurd
Btw, this was what caused
"Steven van Dijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> The plan: checkout LyX from CVS, download the cygwin Qt-port (
> http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/ ) and compile LyX with a Qt-frontend.
> Granted, I would still need an X-server, but I ha
"Andre Poenitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
/opt/mingw32/install/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32msvc/2.95.2/include/syslimits.h
:7,
> from
>
/opt/mingw32/install/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32msvc/2.95.2/include/limits.h:11
,
>
"Philipp Reichmuth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> One of them that prevents me from testing is the lack of libmmd.dll
> (that's the Intel compiler's equivalent of libm, and you'll have to
> redistribute it with the binary application).
I've ad
Hi,
a couple of days ago, I picked up a fresh cvs version and made a win32
binary. You can check it out here:
http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/
Issues that remain are:
-finding a suitable replacement for a unix style home directory
-fix some external scripts
-probably a lot more.
Cheers,
"John Levon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 10:40:00PM +0200, Ruurd Reitsma wrote:
>
> > A cleaner version of my win32 patch:
> >
> > http://www.xs4all.nl/~ps28/ruurd/l
"Lars Gullik Bjønnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> | No local sockets on Windows...
>
> I think they have local sockets on Windows...
> (at least Java on Windows has LocalSocket)
>
Must be some sort of emulation...
AF_UNIX (AF_LOCAL) is just
"Angus Leeming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >
> > And I really think that we should ditch pipes as well and move on to
> > local sockets.
>
> What about OS/2 and Windows? Do they have local sockets?
>
No local sockets on Windows... Actually,
A cleaner version of my win32 patch:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ps28/ruurd/lyx_win32.diff.bz2
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ps28/ruurd/extra_win32_files.tar.bz2
All #ifdef _WIN32 stuff is now moved to support. A big improvement is a
wrapper for VC, taken from the Coin3D project. This allows autoconf &
frien
"Andre Poenitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> I don't like the idea of putting #ifdef _WIN32 etc everywhere in the
> code. Can't this be put into some helper functions that are put
> somewhere under src/support?
Well, it could. However, most _WIN32 #ifdefs outside of support are one-time
issues that
"Kuba Ober" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Do you have your VS updated with the latest service pack? I imagine some
> things that you patch might be VC++ quirks that might have got fixed in
SP's.
I imagine i would have never gotten this far without the service packs...and
even then.
I'm not using t
> > It means that Trolltech believes that programmers who forget to supply a
> > name for their program (?) are mostly inclined to write programs called
> > 'freeware'.
>
> What a strange assumption.
>
> So how does one supply a name then?
>
It turns out that supplying a name wich contains 'Qt' ge
> > It means that Trolltech believes that programmers who forget to supply a
> > name for their program (?) are mostly inclined to write programs called
> > 'freeware'.
>
> What a strange assumption.
>
> So how does one supply a name then?
>
Well.I have to find out...
Ruurd
"Andre Poenitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> What's that 'freeware' thingy in the window title?
>
> I am not exactly sure that this reflects the situation properly...
It means that Trolltech believes that programmers who forget to supply a
na
> don't you still need cygwin for xforms / X11 ?
It's possible to build a native win32 xforms lib.
>
> Where has this code come from ? Some of it lacks license information. If
> we do this, and this code has come from some library, I'd rather depend
> on that library rather than introduce this c
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