-
- d.startProcess(cmd, path, how == DontWait);
- if (how == DontWait && d.state == SystemcallPrivate::Running) {
+#ifdef Q_OS_WIN32
+ // QProcess::startDetached cannot provide environment variables. When the
+ // environment variables are set using the latexEnvCmdPrefix and the process
+ // is started with QProcess::startDetached, a console window is shown every
+ // time a viewer is started. To avoid this, we fall back on Windows to the
+ // original implementation that creates a QProcess object.
+ d.startProcess(cmd, path, lpath, false);
+ if (!d.waitWhile(SystemcallPrivate::Starting, process_events, -1)) {
+ LYXERR0("Systemcall: '" << cmd << "' did not start!");
+ LYXERR0("error " << d.errorMessage());
+ return 10;
+ }
+ if (how == DontWait) {
+ d.releaseProcess();