INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond HWN & JCN Contents 1: ABSTRACT 2: PREREQUISITES 3: RUNNING 4: RECOMMENDED 5: WEBSITE 6: CONFIGURING and COMPILING 7: CONFIGURING FOR MULTIPLE PLATFORMS 8: INSTALLING 9: REDHAT LINUX 10: DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 11: WINDOWS NT/95 12: AUTHORS 1: ABSTRACT You do something which looks remotely like configure # Check out the buildscripts/set-lily.sh script make make install The detailed instructions follow here. The build- scripts/set-lily.sh script sets some environment variables and symlinks, which comes in handly when you have to compile LilyPond very often. It is aimed at people who run (or debug) LilyPond without installing. 2: PREREQUISITES For compilation you need: o A GNU system: GNU LilyPond is known to run on these GNU systems: Linux (PPC, intel), FreeBSD, AIX, NeXTStep, IRIX, Digital Unix and Solaris. o Lots of disk space: LilyPond takes between 50 and 100 mb to compile if you use debugging information. If you are short on disk-space run configure with --disable- debugging. Although we recommend to use Unix, LilyPond is known to run on Windows NT/95/98 as well. See Section 11. o GNU C++ version 2.7 or newer (2.8 and egcs are also fine). o Python 1.5 (Strictly speaking, you shouldn't need Python for compiling and installing, but you'll need it to regenerate the font tables, e.g.). 3: RUNNING GNU LilyPond does use a lot of resources. For operation you need the following: o TeX o A PostScript printer and/or viewer (such as Ghostscript) is strongly recommended. Xdvi will show all embedded PostScript too if you have Ghostscript installed. 4: RECOMMENDED Although not strictly necessary, these are recommended to have. o GNU make. Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any mirror of this site. o Flex (version 2.5.4 or newer). Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any mirror of this site. o Bison (version 1.25 or newer). Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any mirror of this site. o Python (version 1.5 or newer). Check out ftp://ftp.python.org or ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/python. o Yodl. All documentation will be in Yodl. (1.30.17) ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/yodl http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/yodl o Texinfo. (version 3.12 or newer) o GNU find Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any mirror of this site. o The geometry package for LaTeX is needed to use ly2dvi. Available at ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex- archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry or at mirror site ftp://ftp.dante.de o A fast computer (a full page of music typically takes 1 minute on my 486/133, using the --enable-checking com- pile. It's lot slower than most MusiXTeX preprocessors) 5: WEBSITE If you want to auto-generate Lily's website, you'll need some additional conversion tools. o xpmtoppm (from the Portable Bitmap Utilities) (For Red- Hat Linux users: it is included within the package libgr-progs). o Bib2html http://pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu/~hull/bib2html. Which, in turn depends on man2html for proper installa- tion. man2html can be had from http://askdon- ald.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de/hppd/hpux/Network- ing/WWW/Man2html-1.05. TeTeX users should not forget to rerun texhash. 6: CONFIGURING and COMPILING to install GNU LilyPond, simply type: configure --enable-tex-dir=XXXX --enable-mf-dir=YYYY make make install This will install a number of files, something close to: /usr/local/man/man1/mi2mu.1 /usr/local/man/man1/convert-mudela.1 /usr/local/man/man1/mudela-book.1 /usr/local/man/man1/lilypond.1 /usr/local/bin/lilypond /usr/local/bin/mi2mu /usr/local/share/lilypond/* /usr/local/share/locale/{it,nl}/LC_MESSAGES/lilypond.mo /usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/lilypond/* You should specify directories that are in 's and MetaFont's include path with the options (--enable-tex-dir) and --enable-mf-dir. If you don't specify any directories, the include directory is detected dynamically, which is unreli- able. The above assumes that you are root and have the GNU development tools, and your make is GNU make. If this is not the case, you can adjust your environment variables to your taste: export CPPFLAGS="-I /home/me/my_include -DWEIRD_FOOBAR" configure CPPFLAGS are the preprocessor flags. The configure script is Cygnus configure, and it will accept --help. If you are not root, you will probably have to make it with a different --prefix option. Our favourite location is configure --prefix=$HOME/usr In this case, you will have to set up MFINPUTS, and TEXIN- PUTS accordingly. If you want to install GNU LilyPond in /usr/local, and your TeX has no default hooks for local stuff, you can do: configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-tex-prefix=/usr/lib/texmf Since GNU LilyPond currently is beta, you are advised to also use --enable-debugging --enable-checking Other options include: --enable-shared Make a shared library (gnu/linux, solaris (?) only ) (TEMPORARILY OUT OF ORDER) --enable-printing Enable debugging print routines (lilypond -D option) --enable-optimise Set maximum optimisation: compile with -O2 --enable-profiling Compile with support for profiling. --enable-tex-prefix Set the directory where TeX and Metafont live. --enable-tex-dir Set then directory TeX input is in (detected as a subdir of tex-prefix). This should be a directory that is reachable both for tex and latex. On my system the best choice would be /usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/generic//. --enable-mf-dir Set the directory metafont input is in (idem). On my system the best choice would be /usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/source/public/. --enable-config Output to a different configuration file. Needed for multi-platform builds All options are documented in the configure help The option --enable-optimise is recommended for Real Life usage. If you do make all everything will be compiled, but nothing will be installed. The resulting binaries can be found in the subdirectories out/ (which contain all files generated during compilation). 7: CONFIGURING FOR MULTIPLE PLATFORMS If you want to compile LilyPond with different configuration settings, then, you can use the --enable-config option. Example: suppose I want to build with and without profil- ing. Then I'd use the following for the normal build, configure --prefix=~ --disable-optimise --enable-checking make make install and for the profiling version, I specify a different config- uration. configure --prefix=~ --enable-profiling --enable-config=optprof --enable-optimise --disable-checking make config=optprof make config=optprof install 8: INSTALLING If you have done a successful make, then a simple make install should do the trick. If you are doing an upgrade, please remember to remove obso- lete .pk and .tfm files of the fonts. A script has been provided to do the work for you, see bin/clean-fonts.sh. CAVEATS o The -O2 option to gcc triggers a gcc bug on DEC Alpha in dstream.cc. You should turn off this flag for this file. EXAMPLE This is what I type in my xterm: lilypond someinput.ly tex someinput.tex xdvi someinput& This is what the output looks like over here: GNU LilyPond 0.0.78 #4/FlowerLib 1.1.24 #0 Parsing ... [/home/hw/share/lilypond/init// <..etc..> init//performer.ly]]][input/kortjakje.ly] Creating elements ...[8][16][24][25] Preprocessing elements... Calculating column positions ... [14][25] Postprocessing elements... TeX output to someinput.tex ... Creating MIDI elements ...MIDI output to someinput.midi ... hw:~/musix/spacer$ xdvi someinput& [1] 855 Check out the input files, some of them have comments Please refer to the man page for more information. 9: REDHAT LINUX RedHat Linux users can compile an RPM. A spec file is in make/out/lilypond.spec. You should install a gif file called lelie_icon.gif along with the sources. You can gen- erate this gif file by typing make gifs in the directory Documentation. You can make the rpm by issuing make rpm 10: DEBIAN GNU/LINUX A Debian package is also available; contact Anthony Fok foka@debian.org . The build scripts are in the subdirectory debian/ 11: WINDOWS NT/95 Separate instructions on building for W32 are avaible in the file README-W32.yo. 12: AUTHORS Han-Wen Nienhuys Jan Nieuwenhuizen Have fun!