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5 @settitle INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond
7 @comment FIXME -- this information is getting rather stale
11 @chapter Compiling and installing on Unix
15 <a name="download-source">
20 Even numbered versions are `stable' (2.0, 1.8 etc), while odd version
21 are development releases (2.1, 1.9, etc). Building LilyPond is an
22 involved process, so if possible, download a precompiled binary from
23 @uref{http://lilypond.org/,the lilypond site}.
26 @subsection Source code
28 Download source tarballs from here:
30 @item Download development releases from
31 @uref{http://lilypond.org/download/} by HTTP.
32 @item @uref{ftp://sca.uwaterloo.ca/pub/} by FTP (Canadian mirror).
36 Use Xdelta to patch tarballs, e.g. to patch
37 @file{lilypond-1.4.2.tar.gz} to @file{lilypond-1.4.3.tar.gz}, do
39 xdelta patch lilypond-1.4.2-1.4.3.xd lilypond-1.4.2.tar.gz
42 For information on packaging and CVS, see
43 @uref{http://lilypond.org/}, under ``development''.
46 @subsection Precompiled binaries
48 Check out @uref{http://lilypond.org} for up to date information on
52 @subsection Font problems
54 If you are upgrading from a previous version of LilyPond, be sure to
55 remove all old font files. These include @file{.pk} and @file{.tfm} files
56 that may be located in @file{/var/lib/texmf}, @file{/var/spool/texmf},
57 @file{/var/tmp/texmf} or @file{@var{prefix}/share/lilypond/fonts/}. A
58 script automating this has been included, see
59 @file{buildscripts/out/clean-fonts}.
66 @subsection Compilation
68 You need the following packages to compile LilyPond:
72 @item @uref{http://www.freetype.org/,Freetype} version 2.
74 @item @uref{http://fontforge.sf.net/,FontForge} 20041211 or newer.
76 @item @uref{http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen/mftrace/,mftrace} (1.0.33 or
79 You will need to install some additional packages to get mftrace to
82 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,GUILE} (version 1.6.0 or newer).
83 If you are installing a binary packages, you may need to install
84 guile-devel or guile-dev or libguile-dev too.
86 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/,Flex} (version 2.5.4a or newer).
88 WARNING: plain Flex 2.5.4(a) generates invalid C++ code. GCC 3.x
89 chokes on this. If you wish to use GCC 3.x, make sure that your
90 distribution supports g++ 3.x and flex. For workarounds, see
91 lexer-gcc-3.1.sh in the source directory.
95 @TeX{} is used as an output backend.
97 Also, @TeX{}'s libkpathsea is used to find the fonts (@file{.mf},
98 @file{.afm}, @file{.tfm}). Make sure you have tetex 1.0 or newer
99 (1.0.6 is known to work). If you are installing binary packages, you
100 may need to install tetex-devel, tetex-dev or libkpathsea-dev too.
102 @item @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/,Texinfo} (version 4.7 or newer).
104 @item kpathsea, a library for searching (@TeX{}) files.
107 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/, The GNU c++ compiler} (version 3.1 or
108 newer). EGCS and 2.x are known to cause crashes.
110 @item @uref{http://www.python.org,Python} (version 2.1 or newer).
112 @item @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/,GNU Make} (version 3.78 or newer).
114 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/,Bison} (version 1.29 or
115 newer, but not 1.50 or 1.75).
117 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html,gettext}.
120 @subsection Running requirements
122 GNU LilyPond does use a lot of resources. For operation you need the
126 @item @uref{http://lilypond.org/download/fonts,ec-fonts-mftraced} (version 1.0.5 or newer).
127 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,GUILE} (version 1.6.0 or newer).
128 @item @uref{http://www.python.org,Python} (version 2.1 or newer).
130 @item @uref{http://www.ghostscript.com,Ghostscript} (version 8.15 or
134 You have to help @TeX{} and MetaFont find LilyPond support
135 files. After compiling, scripts to do this can be found in
136 @file{buildscripts/out/lilypond-profile} and
137 @file{buildscripts/out/lilypond-login}.
139 @subsection Building documentation
141 You can view the documentation online at
142 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/}, but you can also build it
143 locally. This process requires a successful compile of lilypond. The
144 documentation is built by issuing:
149 Building the website requires some additional tools and packages:
152 @item @uref{http://lilypond.org/download/fonts,ec-fonts-mftraced}
153 @item The @uref{http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/,netpbm utilities}
157 The HTML files can be installed into the standard documentation path
161 make out=www web-install
165 @section Building LilyPond
167 To install GNU LilyPond, type
169 gunzip -c lilypond-x.y.z | tar xf -
171 ./configure # run with --help to see appropriate options
174 sh buildscripts/clean-fonts.sh
177 The most time-consuming part of compiling LilyPond is tracing the
178 Type1 fonts. You can shortcut this operation by issuing
179 one of the following commands:
182 make -C mf get-pfa # requires rpm2cpio
183 make -C mf get-debian-pfa # may not be up to date
186 If you are doing an upgrade, you should remove all @file{feta}
187 @code{.pk} and @code{.tfm} files. A script has been provided to do the
188 work for you, see @file{buildscripts/out/clean-fonts}.
190 If you are not root, you should choose a @code{--prefix} argument that
191 points into your home directory, e.g.:
193 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
196 In this case, you have to insert the contents of
197 @code{buildscripts/out/lilypond-login} or
198 @code{buildscripts/out/lilypond-profile} into your start up scripts by
203 @subsection Configuring for multiple platforms
205 If you want to build multiple versions of LilyPond with different
206 configuration settings, you can use the @code{--enable-config=CONF}
207 option of configure. You should use @samp{make conf=CONF} to generate
208 the output in @file{out-CONF}. Example: Suppose I want to build with
209 and without profiling. Then I'd use the following for the normal
213 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr/ --enable-checking
218 and for the profiling version, I specify a different configuration:
221 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr/ --enable-profiling --enable-config=prof --disable-checking
223 make conf=prof install
230 An Emacs mode for entering music and running LilyPond is contained in
231 the source archive in the @file{elisp} directory. Do @command{make
232 install} to install it to @var{elispdir}. The file @file{lilypond-init.el}
233 should be placed to @var{load-path}@file{/site-start.d/} or appended
234 to your @file{~/.emacs} or @file{~/.emacs.el}.
236 As a user, you may want add your source path (e.g. @file{~/site-lisp/}) to
237 your @var{load-path} by appending the following line (as modified) to your
239 @c any reason we do not advise: (push "~/site-lisp" load-path)
242 (setq load-path (append (list (expand-file-name "~/site-lisp")) load-path))
249 A Vim mode for entering music and running LilyPond is contained in the
250 source archive in @code{$VIM} directory. For version 6.2 and newer,
251 Vim-mode works directly after installing LilyPond. Otherwise,
252 complete the following two steps.
254 For earlier versions (and if @code{$VIM} environment variable does not
255 fall-back to @file{/usr/local/share/vim}, see @code{:version} in vim),
256 the LilyPond file type is detected if your file @file{~/.vim/filetype.vim} @c
257 has the following content:
259 if exists("did_load_filetypes")
262 augroup filetypedetect
263 au! BufNewFile,BufRead *.ly setf lilypond
266 If Vim has been (pre-)installed to @file{/usr/...} (or any other place)
267 instead of @file{/usr/local/...}, then @file{/usr/local/share/vim} may not
268 be specified in your @code{$VIMRUNTIME} environment variable and you have to
269 include this path explicitly by appending the following line to your
272 set runtimepath+=/usr/local/share/vim/
277 For help and questions use @email{lilypond-user@@gnu.org}. Send bug
278 reports to @email{bug-lilypond@@gnu.org}.
280 Bugs that are not fault of LilyPond are documented here.
282 @subsection Bison 1.875
284 There is a bug in bison-1.875: compilation fails with "parse error
285 before `goto'" in line 4922 due to a bug in bison. To fix, either
286 recompile bison 1.875 with the following fix:
289 $ cd lily; make out/parser.cc
290 $ vi +4919 out/parser.cc
291 # append a semicolon to the line containing "__attribute__ ((__unused__))
296 @subsection Linking to kpathsea
298 If kpathsea and the corresponding header files are installed in some
299 directory where GCC does not search by default, for example in
300 @file{/usr/local/lib/} and @file{/usr/local/include/} respectively,
301 you have to explicitly tell configure where to find it. To do this:
304 @item @code{rm config.cache}
305 @item @code{export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/share/texmf/lib}
306 @item @code{export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/share/texmf/include}
307 @item @code{./configure}
309 Once configure has found them, the paths are stored in
310 @file{config.make} and will be used even if you don't have the
311 environment variables set during make.
314 @unnumberedsubsec Gcc-3.0.4
316 Gcc 3.0.4 is flaky; upgrade GCC.
318 @unnumberedsubsec Flex-2.5.4a and gcc-3.x
320 Flex 2.5.4a does not produce g++-3.1.1 compliant C++ code. To compile
321 LilyPond with gcc-3.1.1 you may do
324 CONF=gcc-3.1 ./lexer-gcc-3.1.sh
325 CPPFLAGS=-I$(pwd)/lily/out-gcc-3.1 CC=gcc-3.1 CXX=g++-3.1 \
326 ./configure --enable-config=gcc-3.1
327 CONF=gcc-3.1 ./lexer-gcc-3.1.sh
332 @unnumberedsubsec OpenBSD
336 Refer to the section ``Linking to kpathsea'': GCC on OpenBSD doesn't
337 set include paths for kpathsea.
340 @unnumberedsubsec NetBSD
343 @item The flex precompiled in NetBSD-1.4.2 is broken.
344 Upgrade to flex-2.5.4a.
347 @unnumberedsubsec Solaris
350 @item Solaris7, ./configure
352 @file{./configure} needs a POSIX compliant shell. On Solaris7,
353 @file{/bin/sh} is not yet POSIX compliant, but @file{/bin/ksh} or bash
354 is. Run configure like:
356 CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh ksh -c ./configure
360 CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash bash -c ./configure