1 @c -*- coding: utf-8; mode: texinfo; -*-
2 @c This file is part of lilypond-program.tely
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10 @c was "INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond"
15 <a name="download-source">
20 Even numbered minor versions are `stable' (2.6, 2.8, etc), while odd
21 version are development releases (2.7, 2.9, etc). Building LilyPond
22 is an involved process. If possible
23 @uref{http://lilypond.org/install,download a precompiled binary} for
26 @subsection Source code
31 @uref{http://lilypond.org/download/} by HTTP.
33 @uref{http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/} by HTTP.
35 GIT from @uref{http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=summary,git.sv.gnu.org}
37 git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git
40 The repository does not contain generated files. To create
47 For information on packaging, see @uref{http://lilypond.org/devel}.
49 @subsection Precompiled binary packages
51 Check out @uref{http://lilypond.org/web/install/} for up to date
52 information on binary packages for your platform.
58 @subsection Compilation
60 In addition to the packages needed for running Lilypond (see below),
61 you need the following extra packages for building.
63 When installing a binary package FOO, you may need to install the
64 FOO-devel, libFOO-dev or FOO-dev package too.
68 @item @uref{http://fontforge.sf.net/,FontForge} 20060125 or newer.
70 @item New Century Schoolbook fonts, as PFB files. These are shipped
71 with X11 and Ghostscript, and are named @file{c059033l.pfb}
72 @file{c059036l.pfb}, @file{c059013l.pfb} and @file{c059016l.pfb}
74 @item @uref{http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen/mftrace/,mftrace} (1.1.19 or
77 You will need to install some additional packages to get mftrace to
80 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,GUILE}
81 (version 1.8.2 or newer). If you are installing binary packages, you
82 may need to install guile-devel or guile-dev or libguile-dev too.
84 @item @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/,Texinfo} (version 4.8 or newer).
87 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/, The GNU c++ compiler} (version 4.x or
90 @item @uref{http://www.python.org,Python} (version 2.4 or newer)
92 @item @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/,GNU Make} (version 3.78 or newer).
94 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html,gettext}.
96 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/,Flex}
98 @item @uref{http://www.perl.org/,Perl}
100 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/,GNU Bison}
102 @item All packages required for running, including development packages with
103 header files and libraries.
107 @subsection Running requirements
109 Running LilyPond requires proper installation of the following
114 @item @uref{http://www.freetype.org/,Freetype} (version 2.1.10 or newer).
115 @item @uref{http://www.freetype.org/,FontConfig} (version 2.2).
116 @item @uref{http://www.pango.org/,Pango} (version 1.12 or newer).
117 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,GUILE}
118 (version 1.8.2 or newer), or patch 1.8.1 with
119 @uref{http://lilypond.org/vc/gub.darcs/patches/guile-1.8-rational.patch}.
120 @item @uref{http://www.python.org,Python} (version 2.4 or newer).
121 @item @uref{http://www.ghostscript.com,Ghostscript} (version 8.15 or
122 newer. 8.50 recommended)
123 @item Dejaview. (This is normally installed by default)
126 International fonts are required to create music with international text
130 @subsection Building documentation
132 You can view the documentation online at
133 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/}, but you can also build it locally.
134 This process requires a successful compile of lilypond. The
135 documentation is built by issuing
142 Building the website requires some additional tools and packages
145 @item The @uref{http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/,netpbm utilities}
147 @item International fonts (see input/regression/utf-8.ly for hints
148 about which font packages are necessary for your platform)
149 @item Ghostscript, 8.50 with the patch from
150 @uref{http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688154}
152 @uref{http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688017}.
155 The HTML files can be installed into the standard documentation path
160 make out=www web-install
164 @section Testing LilyPond
167 <a name="testing"></a>
170 LilyPond comes with an extensive suite that excercises the entire
171 program. This suite can be used to automatically check the impact of a
172 change. This is done as follows
176 @emph{## apply your changes, compile}
180 This will leave an HTML page @file{out/test-results/index.html}. This
181 page shows all the important differences that your change introduced,
182 whether in the layout, MIDI, performance or error reporting.
187 make test-redo @emph{## redo files differing from baseline}
188 make test-clean @emph{## remove all test results}
192 and then run @code{make check} again.
194 For tracking memory usage as part of this test, you will need GUILE
195 CVS; especially the following patch:
196 @uref{http://lilypond.org/vc/gub.darcs/patches/guile-1.9-gcstats.patch}.
198 For checking the coverage of the test suite, do the following
201 ./buildscripts/build-coverage.sh
202 @emph{# uncovered files, least covered first}
203 python ./buildscripts/coverage.py --summary out-cov/*.cc
204 @emph{# consecutive uncovered lines, longest first}
205 python ./buildscripts/coverage.py --uncovered out-cov/*.cc
208 @section Building LilyPond
210 To install GNU LilyPond, type
213 gunzip -c lilypond-x.y.z | tar xf -
215 ./configure # run with --help for applicable options
221 If you are not root, you should choose a @code{--prefix} argument that
222 points into your home directory, e.g.
225 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
230 @subsection Configuring for multiple platforms
232 If you want to build multiple versions of LilyPond with different
233 configuration settings, you can use the @code{--enable-config=CONF}
234 option of configure. You should use @samp{make conf=CONF} to generate
235 the output in @file{out-CONF}. Example: Suppose you want to build
236 with and without profiling, then use the following for the normal
241 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr/ --enable-checking
247 and for the profiling version, specify a different configuration
251 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr/ --enable-profiling --enable-config=prof --disable-checking
253 make conf=prof install
261 For help and questions use @email{lilypond-user@@gnu.org}. Send bug
262 reports to @email{bug-lilypond@@gnu.org}.
264 Bugs that are not fault of LilyPond are documented here.
266 @subsection Bison 1.875
268 There is a bug in bison-1.875: compilation fails with "parse error
269 before `goto'" in line 4922 due to a bug in bison. To fix, please
270 recompile bison 1.875 with the following fix
274 $ cd lily; make out/parser.cc
275 $ vi +4919 out/parser.cc
276 # append a semicolon to the line containing "__attribute__ ((__unused__))
283 @unnumberedsubsec MacOS X
285 For Fink, use the following command to compile.
288 export GUILE=guile-1.6
289 export GUILE_CONFIG=guile-1.6-config
290 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/lib/freetype219/lib/pkgconfig/:/sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib/pkgconfig/
294 @unnumberedsubsec Solaris
297 @item Solaris7, ./configure
299 @file{./configure} needs a POSIX compliant shell. On Solaris7,
300 @file{/bin/sh} is not yet POSIX compliant, but @file{/bin/ksh} or bash
301 is. Run configure like
304 CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh ksh -c ./configure
310 CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash bash -c ./configure
316 To use system fonts, dejaview must be installed. With the default
317 port, the fonts are installed in @file{usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu}.
319 Open the file @file{$LILYPONDBASE/usr/etc/fonts/local.conf} and add the
320 following line just after the @code{<fontconfig>} line. (Adjust as necessary
324 <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
330 @section International fonts
332 On MacOs X, all fonts are installed by default. However, finding all
333 system fonts requires a bit of configuration; see
334 @uref{http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-03/msg00472.html,
335 this post} on the @code{lilypond-user} mailing list.
337 On Linux, international fonts are installed by different means on
338 every distribution. We cannot list the exact commands or packages
339 that are necessary, as each distribution is different, and the exact
340 package names within each distribution changes. Here are some
346 taipeifonts fonts-xorg-truetype ttfonts-ja fonts-arabic \
347 ttfonts-zh_CN fonts-ja fonts-hebrew
351 apt-get install emacs-intl-fonts xfonts-intl-.* \
352 ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho \
353 xfonts-bolkhov-75dpi xfonts-cronyx-100dpi xfonts-cronyx-75dpi