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3 @settitle WINDOWS - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond on Windows
8 @chapter WINDOWS - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond on Windows
10 This document is a supplement to INSTALL.txt, you may want to read
13 @section Obtaining LilyPond
15 You can get the latest version of LilyPond at
16 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/,
17 ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/}.
19 @section Windows build requirements
20 You need the following packages to compile Lilypond on Windows.
23 @item The GNU + Cygnus tools, 1.1.7 or newer.
24 Check out the @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin,Cygwin webpage}.
25 You can get the latest version of the GNU + Cygnus tools from cygnus
26 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.html,mirror site}.
27 Install everything, including tetex.
28 @item GUILE 1.4, or newer.
29 Check out the @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile.html,GUILE
30 webpage}. You may need the patch @file{guile-1.4-gnu-windows.patch}
31 included in LilyPond's source distribution.
34 @section Windows precompiled binaries
38 Click @uref{http://appel.lilypond.org/lilypond/gnu-windows/setup.exe,
39 here} to install LilyPond, or visit @uref{http://appel.lilypond.org/lilypond/gnu-windows,
42 This will install the minimal set of cygwin tools needed to run
43 LilyPond. If you already have cygwin installed, don't worry: nothing
44 will be installed twice. To expand on this minimal set, click
45 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.exe,here},
47 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.html,mirror site}.
50 Note that none of the developers uses Windows, of course. In fact, we
51 recommend you to use GNU/Linux for running LilyPond. We provide these
52 binaries anyway, because it saves us the trouble of helping Windows
53 users trying to compile LilyPond themselves.
55 These binaries are cross compiled for Windows on a GNU/Linux box. You
56 may want to check out the
57 @uref{http://appel.lilypond.org/lilypond/gnu-windows/cross-1.1.8.tar.gz,cross
60 @section Windows running requirements
62 GNU LilyPond does use a lot of resources. For operation you need the
67 Included in binary installation.
69 A full TeX installation.
71 @uref{http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/miktex/miktex-2.0-lvl-1.zip,here}
72 to install basic MiKTeX commands,
73 or visit @uref{http://www.miktex.org,www.miktex.org}.
74 @c See @file{/usr/doc/cygwin/tetex-beta-20001218.README} for details.
75 @item PostScript tools
78 Click @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum/gsv26w32.exe,here} to
79 install GSView-2.6 (GhostView for Windows), or visit
80 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum,ftp.cs.wisc.edu}.
82 @item GSView-3.6 and GhostScript-6.50
83 Click @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum/gsv36w32.exe,here} for
85 Click @uref{ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs650/gs650w32.exe
86 ,here} for GhostScript.
87 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum,ftp.cs.wisc.edu}.
89 @uref{http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/,Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview site}.
93 Click @uref{http://www.python.org/ftp/python/win32/py152.exe,here} to
94 install Python-1.5.2, or visit @uref{http://www.python.org,www.python.org}.
98 @section Windows running setup
100 If you're lucky, after running @file{setup.exe} you're all set up.
102 Open a LilyPond shell (or any bash shell), and type
107 If you don't see something similar to
109 Usage: lilypond [OPTION]... [FILE]...
111 Typeset music and or play MIDI from FILE
113 LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music
114 using a high level description file as input. LilyPond is part of
122 you should try adding @file{/usr/lilypond-x.y.z/bin} to your path, do:
124 PATH=/usr/lilypond-1.3.147/bin:$PATH
131 * talk about /etc/profile.d/lilypond-profile.sh