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WINDOWS - Installing GNU LilyPond on WindowsThis document explains how to install the binary release for windows on a Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT or 2000 machine. This release is a free extra service of the developers to assist windows users. Please remember that we (the developers) rather dislike windows, and none of us use it. Don't complain to us that installing LilyPond is too difficult; rather, if you know something about your Windows, send us code that works better (see compiling). Windows binary setupApart from LilyPond itself, you need Cygwin, GUILE, Python, and a TeX installation, but all this software be installed by running setup.exe:
Windows running setupIf you're lucky, after running Open a LilyPond shell (or any bash shell), and type lilypond --help If you don't see something similar to Usage: lilypond [OPTION]... [FILE]... Typeset music and or play MIDI from FILE LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a high level description file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project. Options: -h,--help this help [..] you should try adding PATH=/usr/lilypond-1.3.147/bin:$PATH and try again. Additional softwareLilyPond needs a number of software packages to be really useful. These are included in the binary setup program (see above). If you choose to install this additional software yourself, make sure you install LilyPond last, otherwise the LilyPond setup will be broken. Also note that this means that you will probably need to fix some PATH and TEX environment variables yourself. If you think you can handle that, you may do so, but don't complain if it doesn't work. These software packages are included in the LilyPond installation:
[TODO: * emacs-mode installation, figure out and describe proper emacs-on-cygwin setup. * talk about /etc/profile.d/lilypond-profile.sh * GUILE errors, simple guile test * (La)TEX errors, simple tex test ] |
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