2: OBTAINING
3: PREREQUISITES
4: RUNNING
-5: RECOMMENDED
-6: WEBSITE
-7: CONFIGURING and COMPILING
-8: CONFIGURING FOR MULTIPLE PLATFORMS
-9: INSTALLING
-10: REDHAT LINUX
-11: DEBIAN GNU/LINUX
-12: WINDOWS NT/95
-13: AUTHORS
+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
systems: Linux (PPC, intel), FreeBSD, AIX, NeXTStep,
IRIX, Digital Unix and Solaris.
-o Lots of disk space: LilyPond takes between 50 and 100
+o Lots of disk space: LilyPond takes between 30 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 12.
+ run on Windows NT/95/98 as well. See Section 11.
o EGCS 1.1 or newer.
-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.).
+o Python 1.5, Check out ftp://ftp.python.org or
+ ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/python.
-o GUILE 1.3 (no, GUILE 1.2 won't work), check out
- http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html.
+o GUILE 1.3, check out http://www.gnu.org/soft-
+ ware/guile/guile.html.
+
+o GNU make. Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org.
+
+o Flex (version 2.5.4 or newer). Check out
+ ftp://ftp.gnu.org.
+
+o Bison (version 1.25 or newer). Check out
+ ftp://ftp.gnu.org.
+
+o Yodl. All documentation will be in Yodl. (1.30.17)
+ ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/yodl
+
+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
4: RUNNING
-GNU LilyPond does use a lot of resources. For operation you
-need the following:
+GNU LilyPond does use a lot of resources. For operation you
+need the following software
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
+ Ghostscript) is strongly recommended. Xdvi will show
+ all embedded PostScript too if you have Ghostscript
installed.
-o GUILE 1.3 (no, GUILE 1.2 won't work), check out
- http://www.gnu.org/programs/guile.html
+o GUILE 1.3, check out http://www.gnu.org/pro-
+ grams/guile.html
-For running LilyPond successfully you have to help TeX and
-MetaFont find various files. The recommended way of doing
-so is adjusting the environment variables in the start-up
-scripts of your shell. An example is given here for the
+For running LilyPond successfully you have to help TeX and
+MetaFont find various files. The recommended way of doing
+so is adjusting the environment variables in the start-up
+scripts of your shell. An example is given here for the
Bourne shell:
export MFINPUTS="/usr/local/share/lilypond/mf:"
export TEXINPUTS="/usr/local/share/lilypond/tex:/usr/local/share/lilypond/ps:"
-The empty path component represents and MetaFont's default
-search paths. Scripts with the proper paths for the bourne
+The empty path component represents and MetaFont's default
+
+search paths. Scripts with the proper paths for the bourne
and C-shell respectively are generated in build-
-scripts/out/lilypond-profile and buildscripts/out/lilypond-
+scripts/out/lilypond-profile and buildscripts/out/lilypond-
login during compilation.
-5: RECOMMENDED
+LilyPond is a hideously slow program. A fast CPU and plenty
+of RAM is recommended for comfortable use.
-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 GUILE 1.3 (no, GUILE 1.2 won't work), check out
- http://www.gnu.org/programs/guile.html.
-
-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://ftp.lilypond.org/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.
-
-6: WEBSITE
+5: WEBSITE
If you want to auto-generate Lily's website, you'll need
some additional conversion tools.
TeTeX users should not forget to rerun texhash.
Building the website requires pnmtopng. The version of pnm-
-topng that is distributed with RedHat 5.1 contains a bug
-(pnmtopng is dynamically linked to the wrong version of
-libpng). Recompile it from source, and make sure that the
+topng that is distributed with RedHat 5.1 and 5.2 contains a
+bug: pnmtopng is dynamically linked to the wrong version of
+libpng. Recompile it from source, and make sure that the
pnmtopng binary is linked statically to the libpng that is
-
-included in libgr.
+included in libgr. RedHat 6.0 does not have this problem.
tar xzf libgr-2.0.13.tar.gz
make
You can then install the new pnmtopng into /usr/local/bin/
-7: CONFIGURING and COMPILING
+6: CONFIGURING and COMPILING
to install GNU LilyPond, simply type:
/usr/local/share/lilypond/*
/usr/local/share/locale/{it,nl}/LC_MESSAGES/lilypond.mo
-The above assumes that you are root and have the GNU devel-
+The above assumes that you are root and have the GNU devel-
opment tools, and your make is GNU make. If this is not the
-case, you can adjust your environment variables to your
+case, you can adjust your environment variables to your
taste:
export CPPFLAGS="-I /home/me/my_include -DWEIRD_FOOBAR"
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
+--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-
+In this case, you will have to set up MFINPUTS, and TEXIN-
PUTS accordingly.
-Since GNU LilyPond currently is beta, you are advised to
+Since GNU LilyPond currently is beta, you are advised to
also use
--enable-debugging
Enable debugging print routines (lilypond -D option)
--enable-optimise
- Set maximum optimisation: compile with -O2. This can
- be unreliable on some compiler/platform combinations
+ Set maximum optimisation: compile with -O2. This can
+ be unreliable on some compiler/platform combinations
(eg, DEC Alpha and PPC)
--enable-profiling
Compile with support for profiling.
--enable-config
- Output to a different configuration file. Needed for
+ Output to a different configuration file. Needed for
multi-platform builds
-All options are documented in the configure help The option
+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
+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).
-8: CONFIGURING FOR MULTIPLE PLATFORMS
+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-
+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 config=optprof
make config=optprof install
-9: INSTALLING
+8: INSTALLING
If you have done a successful make, then a simple
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
+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 triggers bugs on various platforms
- (PowerPC, Alpha). If you experience problems, you
-
+o The -O2 option triggers bugs on various platforms
+ (PowerPC, Alpha). If you experience problems, you
should first try turning off this.
EXAMPLE
Check out the input files, some of them have comments Please
refer to the man page for more information.
-10: REDHAT LINUX
+9: REDHAT LINUX
-RedHat Linux users can compile an RPM. A spec file is in
-make/out/lilypond.spec, it is distributed along with the
+RedHat Linux users can compile an RPM. A spec file is in
+make/out/lilypond.spec, it is distributed along with the
sources.
You can make the rpm by issuing
rpm -tb lilypond-x.y.z.tar.gz
rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/lilypond-x.y.z
-11: DEBIAN GNU/LINUX
+10: DEBIAN GNU/LINUX
-A Debian package is also available; contact Anthony Fok
-foka@debian.org. The build scripts are in the subdirectory
+A Debian package is also available; contact Anthony Fok
+foka@debian.org. The build scripts are in the subdirectory
debian/.
-12: WINDOWS NT/95
+11: WINDOWS NT/95
Separate instructions on building for W32 are avaible in the
file README-W32.yo.
-13: AUTHORS
+12: AUTHORS
Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
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