From: hjpsmith AT earthlink DOT net (Henry J. P. Smith) Subject: Re: LyX and Xforms 14 Nov 1997 10:59:33 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19971114102913.008ad9c0.cygnus.gnu-win32@earthlink.net> References: <34645751 DOT 617BF310 AT omedia DOT ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, Pasa Guglielmo , Xavier Plasencia Hello all, Please excuse my slow reply. Let me thank both Pasa And Xavier. I also received a reply from Arlindo da Silva. Arlindo recently posted a not to the effect that Dr. T. C. Zhao of Univ. of Wisconsin has ported xforms to gnu-win32 and expects it to be available soon. This will be very useful for me and I expect for others as well. I agree Xavier, that Linux would be a good solution but as I want to us LyX to work with a colleague who won't want to put Linux on his system, this is not a viable solution for us, unfortunately. For sure, if what you really want is an X-windows solution and don't also need any of the WIN32 thingy's AT THE SAME time. Linux would be a "best" solution. (OK you BSD'ers that would also be good .) Thanks again to you three for answering my post, and a special one to Arlindo for asking T.C. for the port and to the latter for making the port. Regards Henry At 11:48 AM 11/8/97 -0025, Pasa wrote: >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. > > and > > At 11:30 AM 11/7/97 -0800, Xavier wrote: >I do not think this is possible. Most of the ports from unix to Win32, >via Cygwin, require one to have the source. Although one can get the >source code to Lyx, one cannot get the source code for Xforms. Xforms is a >commercial package that is built ontop of Xlib, and is not portable. I >currently use Lyx on my home PC running LINUX where the XForms libarary >is freely distributable. You might want to install LINUX on your PC or try >to install the XLib server on top of Win32. > > 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".