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10 @c was "INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond"
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17 <a name="download-source">
21 There are two sets of releases for LilyPond: stable releases, and
22 unstable development releases. Stable versions have an even-numbered
23 @q{minor} version number (i.e. 2.8, 2.10, 2.12, etc). Development
24 versions have an odd-numbered @q{minor} version number (i.e. 2.7, 2.9,
27 Building LilyPond is an involved process, so we @strong{highly}
28 recommend using the precompiled binaries.
31 * Precompiled binaries::
32 * Compiling from source::
36 @node Precompiled binaries
37 @section Precompiled binaries
39 @subsection Downloading
41 Check out @uref{http://lilypond.org/web/install/} for up to date
42 information on binary packages for your platform. If your operating
43 system is not covered on that general page, please see the complete list
44 at @uref{http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/}
46 We currently create binaries for
63 @node Compiling from source
64 @section Compiling from source
67 * Downloading source code::
74 @node Downloading source code
75 @subsection Downloading source code
81 @uref{http://lilypond.org/download/} by HTTP.
83 @uref{http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/} by HTTP.
85 GIT from @uref{http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=summary,git.sv.gnu.org}
88 git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git
91 The repository does not contain generated files. To create
98 For information on packaging, see @uref{http://lilypond.org/devel}.
102 @subsection Requirements
104 @unnumberedsubsubsec Compilation
106 In addition to the packages needed for running Lilypond (see below), you
107 need the following extra packages for building.
109 When installing a binary package FOO, you may need to install the
110 FOO-devel, libFOO-dev or FOO-dev package too.
114 @item @uref{http://fontforge.sf.net/,FontForge} 20060125 or newer.
116 @item New Century Schoolbook fonts, as PFB files. These are shipped with
117 X11 and Ghostscript, and are named @file{c059033l.pfb}
118 @file{c059036l.pfb}, @file{c059013l.pfb} and @file{c059016l.pfb}
120 @item @uref{http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen/mftrace/,mftrace} (1.1.19 or
121 newer); you may need to install some additional packages to get mftrace
124 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,GUILE} (version
125 1.8.2 or newer). If you are installing binary packages, you may need to
126 install guile-devel or guile-dev or libguile-dev too.
128 @item @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/,Texinfo} (version 4.8 or newer).
130 @item @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/, The GNU c++ compiler} (version 4.x or
133 @item @uref{http://www.python.org,Python} (version 2.4 or newer)
135 @item @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/,GNU Make} (version 3.78 or newer).
137 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html,gettext}.
139 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/,Flex}
141 @item @uref{http://www.perl.org/,Perl}
143 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/,GNU Bison}
145 @item All packages required for running, including development packages with
146 header files and libraries.
151 @unnumberedsubsubsec Running requirements
153 Running LilyPond requires proper installation of the following software
157 @item @uref{http://www.freetype.org/,Freetype} (version 2.1.10 or newer).
158 @item @uref{http://www.freetype.org/,FontConfig} (version 2.2).
159 @item @uref{http://www.pango.org/,Pango} (version 1.12 or newer).
160 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,GUILE}
161 (version 1.8.2 or newer), or patch 1.8.1 with
162 @uref{http://lilypond.org/vc/gub.darcs/patches/guile-1.8-rational.patch}.
163 @item @uref{http://www.python.org,Python} (version 2.4 or newer).
164 @item @uref{http://www.ghostscript.com,Ghostscript} (version 8.15 or
165 newer. 8.50 recommended)
166 @item Dejaview. (This is normally installed by default)
169 International fonts are required to create music with international text
173 @unnumberedsubsubsec Building documentation
175 You can view the documentation online at
176 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/}, but you can also build it locally.
177 This process requires a successful compile of lilypond. The
178 documentation is built by issuing
184 Building the website requires some additional tools and packages
187 @item The @uref{http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/,netpbm utilities}
189 @item International fonts (see input/regression/utf-8.ly for hints
190 about which font packages are necessary for your platform)
191 @item Ghostscript, 8.50 with the patch from
192 @uref{http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688154}
194 @uref{http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688017}.
197 The HTML files can be installed into the standard documentation path
201 make out=www web-install
205 @node Building LilyPond
206 @subsection Building LilyPond
208 To install GNU LilyPond, type
211 gunzip -c lilypond-x.y.z | tar xf -
213 ./configure # run with --help for applicable options
218 If you are not root, you should choose a @code{--prefix} argument that
219 points into your home directory, e.g.
222 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
226 @subsection Configuring for multiple platforms
228 If you want to build multiple versions of LilyPond with different
229 configuration settings, you can use the @code{--enable-config=CONF}
230 option of configure. You should use @samp{make conf=CONF} to generate
231 the output in @file{out-CONF}. Example: Suppose you want to build
232 with and without profiling, then use the following for the normal
236 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr/ --enable-checking
241 and for the profiling version, specify a different configuration
244 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr/ --enable-profiling --enable-config=prof --disable-checking
246 make conf=prof install
250 @node Testing LilyPond
251 @subsection Testing LilyPond
254 <a name="testing"></a>
257 LilyPond comes with an extensive suite that exercises the entire
258 program. This suite can be used to automatically check the impact of a
259 change. This is done as follows
263 @emph{## apply your changes, compile}
267 This will leave an HTML page @file{out/test-results/index.html}. This
268 page shows all the important differences that your change introduced,
269 whether in the layout, MIDI, performance or error reporting.
274 make test-redo @emph{## redo files differing from baseline}
275 make test-clean @emph{## remove all test results}
279 and then run @code{make check} again.
281 For tracking memory usage as part of this test, you will need GUILE
282 CVS; especially the following patch:
283 @uref{http://lilypond.org/vc/gub.darcs/patches/guile-1.9-gcstats.patch}.
285 For checking the coverage of the test suite, do the following
288 ./buildscripts/build-coverage.sh
289 @emph{# uncovered files, least covered first}
290 python ./buildscripts/coverage.py --summary out-cov/*.cc
291 @emph{# consecutive uncovered lines, longest first}
292 python ./buildscripts/coverage.py --uncovered out-cov/*.cc
299 For help and questions use @email{lilypond-user@@gnu.org}. Send bug
300 reports to @email{bug-lilypond@@gnu.org}.
302 Bugs that are not fault of LilyPond are documented here.
304 @unnumberedsubsubsec Bison 1.875
306 There is a bug in bison-1.875: compilation fails with "parse error
307 before `goto'" in line 4922 due to a bug in bison. To fix, please
308 recompile bison 1.875 with the following fix
311 $ cd lily; make out/parser.cc
312 $ vi +4919 out/parser.cc
313 # append a semicolon to the line containing "__attribute__ ((__unused__))
319 @unnumberedsubsubsec MacOS X
321 For Fink, use the following command to compile.
324 export GUILE=guile-1.6
325 export GUILE_CONFIG=guile-1.6-config
326 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/lib/freetype219/lib/pkgconfig/:/sw/lib/fontconfig2/lib/pkgconfig/
330 @unnumberedsubsubsec Solaris
332 Solaris7, ./configure
334 @file{./configure} needs a POSIX compliant shell. On Solaris7,
335 @file{/bin/sh} is not yet POSIX compliant, but @file{/bin/ksh} or bash
336 is. Run configure like
339 CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh ksh -c ./configure
346 CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash bash -c ./configure
349 @unnumberedsubsubsec FreeBSD
351 To use system fonts, dejaview must be installed. With the default
352 port, the fonts are installed in @file{usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu}.
354 Open the file @file{$LILYPONDBASE/usr/etc/fonts/local.conf} and add the
355 following line just after the @code{<fontconfig>} line. (Adjust as necessary
359 <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
363 @unnumberedsubsubsec International fonts
365 On MacOs X, all fonts are installed by default. However, finding all
366 system fonts requires a bit of configuration; see
367 @uref{http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-03/msg00472.html,
368 this post} on the @code{lilypond-user} mailing list.
370 On Linux, international fonts are installed by different means on
371 every distribution. We cannot list the exact commands or packages
372 that are necessary, as each distribution is different, and the exact
373 package names within each distribution changes. Here are some
379 taipeifonts fonts-xorg-truetype ttfonts-ja fonts-arabic \
380 ttfonts-zh_CN fonts-ja fonts-hebrew
384 apt-get install emacs-intl-fonts xfonts-intl-.* \
385 ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho \
386 xfonts-bolkhov-75dpi xfonts-cronyx-100dpi xfonts-cronyx-75dpi