3 WINDOWS - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond on Windows
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6 This document is a supplement to INSTALL.txt, you may want to read
12 You can get the latest version of LilyPond at
13 ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/
14 (ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/).
16 Windows build requirements
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19 You need the following packages to compile Lilypond on Windows.
21 `The GNU + Cygnus tools, 1.1.7 or newer.'
22 Check out the Cygwin webpage (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin).
24 `GUILE 1.4, or newer.'
25 Check out the GUILE webpage
26 (http://www.gnu.org/software/guile.html)
28 You can get the latest version of the GNU + Cygnus tools from cygnus
29 mirror site (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.html).
31 Windows precompiled binaries
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36 (http://appel.lilypond.org/lilypond/gnu-windows/setup.exe) to
37 install LilyPond, or visit LilyPond on Windows
38 (http://appel.lilypond.org/lilypond/gnu-windows).
40 This will install the minimal set of cygwin tools needed to run
41 LilyPond. If you already have cygwin installed, don't worry:
42 nothing will be installed twice.
44 Note that none of the developers uses Windows, of course. In fact,
45 we recommend you to use GNU/Linux for running LilyPond. We provide
46 these binaries anyway, because it saves us the trouble of helping
47 Windows users trying to compile LilyPond themselves.
49 These binaries are cross compiled for Windows on a GNU/Linux box.
50 You may want to check out the cross compilation scripts
51 (http://appel.lilypond.org/lilypond/gnu-windows/cross.tar.gz).
53 Windows running requirements
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56 GNU LilyPond does use a lot of resources. For operation you need the
60 Included in binary installation.
63 A full TeX installation. See /usr/share/doc/tetex-beta for
67 Click here (ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum/gsv36w32.exe) to
68 install GSView (GhostView for Windows), or visit ftp.cs.wisc.edu
69 (ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum).
72 Click here (http://www.python.org/ftp/python/win32/py152.exe) to
73 install Python-1.5.2, or visit www.python.org
74 (http://www.python.org).
79 If you're lucky, after running `setup.exe' you're all set up.
81 Open a LilyPond shell (or any bash shell), and type
84 If you don't see something similar to
85 Usage: lilypond [OPTION]... [FILE]...
87 Typeset music and or play MIDI from FILE
89 LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music
90 using a high level description file as input. LilyPond is part of
97 you should try adding `/usr/lilypond-x.y.z/bin' to your path, do:
98 PATH=/usr/lilypond-1.3.147/bin:$PATH
104 * talk about /etc/profile.d/lilypond-profile.sh