- This document describes how to build LilyPond on Unix platforms. It
-is also known to run and compile on Windows NT/95/98 as well. More
-information on this topic can be found at the LilyPond on Windows page
-(http://www.lilypond.org/gnu-windows/).
-
-Downloading
-===========
-
- Even numbered versions are `stable'. The webpages for the stable
-version (1.2) reside on the GNU servers
-(http://www.gnu.org/software/lilypond). Big enhancements go into the
-latest odd numbered version (1.3), whose webpages are on the lilypond
-site (http://www.lilypond.org/).
-
-Source code
------------
-
- If you want to compile LilyPond from source, download here:
- * Download development releases from
- `ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/' by FTP and
- `http://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/', by HTTP.
-
- * `ftp://sca.uwaterloo.ca/pub/' by FTP (Canadian mirror)
-
- * at `lilypond.org' `ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/LilyPond/' by FTP and
- `http://www.lilypond.org/ftp/' by HTTP.
-
- Of course, if your platform supports LilyPond, such as Debian
-GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD, you're encouraged to use the
-native build from source drill.
-
- For Red Hat Linux and SuSE Linux, `.spec' files are included in the
-tarball; see instructions below.
-
-Precompiled binaries
---------------------
-
- If you want to track bleeding edge development, try:
-
- * Debian GNU/Linux
- (ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lilypond/) usually has
- the latest binaries for the most useful stable and development
- versions, while
-
- * Mandrake Cooker
- (http://rpmfind.net/linux/mandrake/cooker/contrib/RPMS/) also
- provides fairly recent versions.
-
- Binaries are made available for other popular platforms, but as we
-need to compile them ourselves, they are not updated for every version
-released.
-
- * Red Hat i386
- (ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/binaries/RedHat/RPMS/)
-
- * SuSE (ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/LilyPond/binaries/SuSE)
-
- * LinuxPPC (ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/LilyPond/binaries/linuxppc/)
-
- * Windows (http://www.lilypond.org/gnu-windows/)