LyX & Windows on Arm?

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 7/17/24 8:48 PM, Allan Chain wrote:
>
>> On 7/17/24 12:33 PM, Bernt Lie via lyx-users wrote:
>>> Has anyone tested LyX + MikTeX (or other distribution) wrt. running 
>>> on Windows for ARM?
>>>
>>> * In emulation mode (Prism, or whatever)
>>> * Is there a native ARM version for Windows?
>>>
>>> [I'm tempted by the battery life... although HP also claims the 
>>> Omnibook Ultra with coming AMD processor has good battery life...]
>>
>> I guess the first question is whether Qt is available for ARM on
>> Windows. I would expect LyX itself to compile.
>>
>> Riki
> The Windows ARM support in Qt (https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/windows.html) is 
> currently in technical preview, and applications have to be 
> cross-compiled from an x86-64 Windows machine and deployed to target. 
> With upcoming Qt 6.8, Windows on ARM will one of the standard desktop 
> platforms supported in Qt. However, I didn't find any instruction on 
> how to do the cross-compile.

I would guess it could even be done on Linux. I used to build the 
Windows package on Linux before Eugene came along, though of course that 
was for x86_64.

Riki



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