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README for Win32
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LyX has been ported to Win32 using the Cygwin environement.
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See README.Cygwin for details.
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Ever since Ruurd Reitsma made his port of LyX 1.3.3 to Windows
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available to the general public in 2003, users of LyX/Win have had to
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fight to overcome bugs that simply weren't present on other
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platforms. Ruurd did a superb job in writing the original port, but
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didn't have the resources to squash all the irritating little bugs
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discovered by many people using LyX "for real".
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The official LyX line on these LyX/Win ports has always been that
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it's nice to know they exist but we won't support them
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officially. There were two reasons for this: we didn't have the
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necessary knowledge or resources and, until recently, only
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closed-source versions of the Qt GUI library existed. The increasing
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maturity of the Qt/Win Free project means that this latter point is
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no longer true, so we felt that we should make the effort and make
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LyX/Win an official part of LyX.
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As a result, LyX 1.3.6 cannot really be classified as a minor bug fix
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release, especially for Windows users. Large chunks of the code base
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have been touched in an attempt to resolve those problems that
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Windows users have found with Ruurd's original ports. We feel
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confident that LyX 1.3.6 will be the best ever version of LyX on
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Windows. We are not confident, however, that we haven't introduced
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any new bugs.
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Detailed installation instructions can be found in INSTALL.Win32 for
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those who wish to compile LyX for themselves. For the rest of us,
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LyX/Win comes with its own installer, so installation should be pretty
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straightforward. As always, more detailed help can be found on the
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wiki at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows.
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