[Mingw-msys] Re: Line endings and autogen.sh

[Angus L. <le...@ly...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>>>Dear all,
>>>>
>>>>I have just succeeded in compiling LyX (www.lyx.org) under MinGW,
>>>>MinSYS, using the port of Qt to Win32 by the cygwin-kde people.
>>>>http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32
>>>>
>>>
>>>So, does this require Cygwin?
>>
>>Nope.
>>
>>The build environment (the GNU autotools, configure, make) requires
>>MinSYS.
>>I've also been using MinGW to provide the compiler (soooo slow coming from
>>the linux world, but working).
>>
>>However, others are reporting success in compiling with MSVC. They've had
>>to use a wrapper to invoke the compiler but, hey!, this is early days for
>>us ;-)
>>
>>
>>>Does it require X Windows?
>>
>>Nope. The cygwin-kde people are writing a Qt/Win32 native port of the
>>GPL-ed Qt/unix libraries. They certainly haven't finished, but LyX
>>requires only the GUI parts of Qt and this stuff appears to work.
>>
>>None of this is mainstream yet of course.
>>
> 
> 
> This is great news.  I'll be looking more into the cygwin-kde project.
> Earnie

One caveat. I find that whilst the g++ that ships with the vanilla mingw 
(3.2.x?) will compile the Qt library out of the box, it subsequently 
ICEs when compiling the LyX Qt frontend. The g++ 3.4 that you package, 
however, works fine although it produces tons of warnings about 
dllimport problems in the Qt headers.

Also, be prepared to wait. It takes 3 hours to compile the Qt libraries 
using mingw on a 2.7GHz box.

Regards,
Angus