LyX/Cygwin ========== Ruurd Reitsma Bo Peng Building LyX on Cygwin ====================== To build lyx, you will need to install the following cygwin packages aspell gzip libiconv libQtGui4 aspell-dev gettext libpng libQtGui4-devel gcc gettext-devel libQtCore4 pkg-config gcc4 libintl8 libQtCore4-devel python Currently only the traditional autotools (autoconf, automake, make etc) build system is recommended to build LyX on cygwin. It does not differ from building lyx on any typical posix system, so you are referred to the INSTALL file. Note that it is not advisable using the cmake build system on cygwin for the reasons explained here: http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=10122 When lyx is built as outlined above, it will be a X-Window application, so you will need a X-server for running it. It is possible to build lyx as a cygwin application but using the native Windows GDI backend instead of X11. You are referred to the lyx wiki for instructions: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnCygwin Acknowledgements ================ Many thanks to Steven van Dijk, Claus Hentschel and Miyata Shigeru for starting the porting business, and Enrico Forestieri for many cygwin-related improvements.