2.4.0 testing on windows 10

[Yu Jin]

Am Sa., 31. Okt. 2020 um 21:00 Uhr schrieb Kornel Benko <kornel at lyx.org>:

> Am Sat, 31 Oct 2020 17:33:24 +0100
> schrieb Yu Jin <yu_jin at lyx.org>:
>
> > Am Sa., 31. Okt. 2020 um 15:51 Uhr schrieb Thibaut Cuvelier <
> > tcuvelier at lyx.org>:
> >
> > > On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 10:07, Andrew Parsloe <ajparsloe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I've installed 2.4.0 testing on a windows 10 machine.
> > >>
> > >> 1. when launching LyX the command window remains open.
> > >>
> > >> 2. the first preview encountered (e.g. math inset with preview On)
> > >> generates this message twice in the command window:
> > >>
> > >> RunCommand: could not terminate child process: Invalid argument
> > >>
> > >> Subsequent previews do not generate the message.
> > >>
> > > I can reproduce this. LyX tries to run py -2 and py -3 to detect some
> > > Python installation, but I thought this was due to my using a
> nonbundled
> > > version of Python.
> > >
> >
> > I would not worry too much, this is normal:
> > https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11712
> >
> > I actually worry more about the open command window. I compiled and built
> > Windows installer as before with the 2.3.x betainstallers. Should I have
> > toggled the CMake setting to suppress/deactivate the command window?
> > Totally didn't think about that.
>
> Right, we should make it configurable at runtime. Like:
>   $ lyx -console
> and since we sometimes need the output in the command window, it should
> not be disabled
> at cmake-configuration time.
>
> This is also the reason that console is on by default for the MSVC
> compiler. (As it is for
> lyx2.3.x too BTW)
>

Yeah the setting itself is on, but when I compile and then run lyx, the
console is not shown. It's this way if I compile from the repo branch 2.3.x
and from Riki's tarballs.
-- 
    Eugene
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