From ea3930a7fd9f60539fee684f396f22048ec150a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Angus Leeming Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 14:19:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Sync the 1.3.x and 1.4.x versions of README.Cygwin. git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@10156 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8 --- README.Cygwin | 28 ++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.Cygwin b/README.Cygwin index 97962bdfaf..6deda70622 100644 --- a/README.Cygwin +++ b/README.Cygwin @@ -1,12 +1,20 @@ -================================================================ -README for Cygwin by Ruurd Reitsma (R.A.Reitsma@wbmt.tudelft.nl) -================================================================ +LyX/Cygwin +Ruurd Reitsma -LyX has been ported to Win32 using the Cygwin environement. The port -consists of a few small tweaks to deal with DOS-style pathnames, so -LyX can use Win32 TeX distros like fptex and MiKTeX. There's also a -cygwin TeTeX port, but the native Win32 ports have a definite speed -advantage. Besides that, nothing fancy. +There are two ways to run LyX on Windows: +* as a native Windows application, using the Qt/Win Free clone of + Trolltech's cross-platform Qt toolkit. +* as a POSIX application running under the Cygwin environment. + +This README describes what is needed for the latter of these two +options. Please refer to README.Win32 if you'd like to run LyX +as a native Windows application. + +The Cygwin port consists of a few small tweaks to the original +Unix sources to deal with DOS-style pathnames, so that LyX can use +Win32 TeX distros like fptex and MiKTeX. There's also a cygwin TeTeX port, +but the native Win32 ports have a definite speed advantage. Besides that, +nothing fancy. The prerequisites are (obviously?): @@ -19,9 +27,9 @@ missing in the final link step. You'll have to add them to the Makefile by hand. Be sure to include -lregex, because cygwin's builtin regex is sortof weird (filedialogs will turn up empty...) -If you want to run lyx with no console windows open, there's a small +If you want to run LyX with no console windows open, there's a small program in development/Win32 that will set the proper environment vars -and start lyx. +and start LyX. Compile with: