From: gpasa AT omedia DOT ch (Pasa Guglielmo) Subject: Re: LyX and Xforms 8 Nov 1997 03:23:00 -0800 Message-ID: <34645751.617BF310.cygnus.gnu-win32@omedia.ch> References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 32 DOT 19971106182231 DOT 0088d550 AT earthlink DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: "Henry J. P. Smith" Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com You should try to ask the XForms group to produce a b18 binary release as they cetainly don't want to give you the code. It probably will compile succesfully (at least lesstif 0.81 does ! so let's hope). Then it is only a problem of porting LyX to b18. Henry J. P. Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > I searched throught the back issues on cygnus and didn't find anything > about either LyX or xforms. So I thought I'd ask whether anyone has any > experience trying to bring either of these up under gnuwin32. > > LyX is a font-end for LaTeX and from what I gather it uses xforms to > produce a WYSIWYG like interface. The URL for LyX that I have is > > > and for xforms > > . > > I don't feel too confident in attempting to bring them up under GNUWIN32 > (as I am not very strong in C/C++ etc) but I am strongly tempted to give it > a try as I and a colleague of mine have a need for LaTeX but don't > particularly like the hassle of learning it to do all that we will probably > need. { I know I know, tha't being kinda lazy :-) } > > I was thinking that one could do as straight a port as possible and use a > local X-server such as MI/X or the one I use most frequently SuperX from > FrontierTech. (Haven't seen the latter mentioned on the list. Does anyone > else use it? I rather like it for my purposes as it is more robust than > MI/X and not too expensive either.) > > xforms provides the menus and buttons etc used by LyX and it apparently > does so via a Unix shared object librayr (.so . . . etc) AFAIK (not very > far ) this sort of function would be carried out in WIN32 by a DLL. Does > GNUWIN32 have the .so option available? I'd kinda guess not but then . . . > If not how hard is it to change the .so file into a dll? (obviously you > need the source but after that?) > > Well any thoughts any one might like to add would be greatly appreciated as > they might be save me a lot of headaches. And also if anyone has a good > argumebnt as to why this would be a dumb project to get started on, I'd > very much like to hear them as well. > > TIA > > Henry > > PS: this is a great list. I've been sort of lurking for some time and this > is my first post. Thanks to all the earlier contributors. > > Dr. Henry J. P. Smith President / Owner > TPE Associates > "Technology Physics Environment" > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". -- Sincerely yours, Pasa Guglielmo ------------------------------------------------------------------ ¦ homepage: http://www.omedia.ch/pages/gpasa/ ¦ ¦----------------------------------------------------------------¦ ¦ e-mail : gpasa AT omedia DOT ch ¦ tel. : +41 (0)24 485 50 40 ¦ ¦ mailing : Pasa Guglielmo ¦ fax : +41 (0)24 485 50 44 ¦ ¦ Rte des Cases 17A ¦ ¦ ¦ CH-1890 St-Maurice ¦ prof.: physicist ¦ ¦ (Switzerland) ¦ ¦ ------------------------------------------------------------------ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".