LyX & Windows on Arm?

[Yu Jin]

Am Do., 18. Juli 2024 um 04:47 Uhr schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <
rikiheck at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>

I think it would not be hard to compile itself, rather to get all the
dependencies for ARM64. Like netbpm, unoconv, rsvg-convert and all the
runtime dll files which are delivered with lyx.
To cross compile there is just a workload in Visual Studio for cross
compiling to ARM64 Windows, doesn't seem too hard tbh.


-- 
  Eugene
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