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Re: cygwin / qt4?


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Bo Peng wrote:
> I maintain the cygwin port of lyx. Lyx will release 1.5.0 soon but
> 1.5.0 is based on qt4. I can compile lyx 1.5.0 with qt4 open source
> myself, but I think it is impractical (or illegal) to distribute qt4
> with lyx. Will there be a qt4 package for cygwin in the near future?

Hard to say.  Qt has a number of quirks which make it difficult to port
to other platforms.  I last tried with 4.1.x and it would compile but
nothing based on it would run.

I intend to try again soon with 4.3.0; if it works, it will be added to
Cygwin Ports for testing before landing here.


Yaakov
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