This document explains what you need to install LilyPond, and what you
should do. If you are going to compile and install LilyPond often,
-e.g. when doing development, you might want to check out the
-@file{buildscripts/set-lily.sh} script. It sets some environment
-variables and symlinks, which comes in handly when you have to compile
-LilyPond more often.
+e.g. when doing development, you might want to check out the
+@file{buildscripts/set-lily.sh} script. It sets some environment
+variables and symlinks, which comes in handy when you have to compile
+LilyPond more often.
@section Obtaining
Although we recommend to use Unix, LilyPond is known to run on Windows
NT/95/98 as well. See Section Windows NT/95,es.
-@item EGCS 1.1 or newer. Check out @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gcc/}.
+@item EGCS 1.1 or newer. Check out @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/}.
@item Python 1.5,
Check out
@uref{ftp://ftp.python.org} or @uref{ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/python}.
-@item GUILE 1.3.4, check out @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html}.
+@item GUILE 1.3.4 or newer, check out
+@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html}.
+Version 1.4 is recommended for better performance.
-@item GNU make.
-Check out @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/make/,ftp://ftp.gnu.org/make/}.
+@item GNU Make.
+Check out
+@uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/,ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/}.
@item Flex (version 2.5.4 or newer).
-Check out @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/flex/,ftp://ftp.gnu.org/flex/}.
+Check out @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/flex/,ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/flex/}.
@item Bison (version 1.25 or newer).
-Check out @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/bison/,ftp://ftp.gnu.org/bison/}.
+Check out @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/,ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/}.
+
+@item TeX. If you want LilyPond to use kpathsea support (recommended),
+make sure you have tetex 1.0 or newer (1.0.6 is known to work). You may
+need to install a tetex-devel or tetex-dev package too.
-@item Texinfo. Check out @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/texinfo/,ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/texinfo/}.
+@item Texinfo (version 4.0 or newer).
+Check out @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/,ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/}.
Most documentation is in texinfo.
@item The geometry package for LaTeX is needed to use ly2dvi.
@uref{ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry,ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry}
or at mirror site @uref{ftp://ftp.dante.de,ftp://ftp.dante.de}
-@item MetaPost, if you want to use direct PostScript output. Please
-note that tetex-0.4pl8 (included with Redhat 5.x) does not include
-@file{mfplain.mp}, which is needed for producing the scaleable font files.
+@item MetaPost, needed for generating PostScript fonts. Please
+note that tetex-0.4pl8 (included with Redhat 5.x) does not include
+@file{mfplain.mp}, which is needed for producing the scalable font
+files.
+
+If you do not want to use PostScript output, edit @file{mf/GNUmakefile}.
+
+@item kpathsea, a library for searching (TeX) files. @code{kpathsea} is
+usually included with your installation of TeX.
+
@end itemize
following software
@itemize @bullet
-@item TeX
+@item TeX.
@item A PostScript printer and/or viewer (such as Ghostscript) is strongly
recommended. Xdvi will show all embedded PostScript too if you have
Ghostscript installed.
The website is the most convenient form to use for reading the
documentation on-line documentation. It is made by entering @example
- make website
+ make htmldoc
@end example
This does require a functioning LilyPond. The binary doesn't have to
You can then install the new pnmtopng into @file{/usr/local/bin/}
-@item Bib2html @uref{http://pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu/~hull/bib2html.,http://pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu/~hull/bib2html.}
+@item @uref{http://pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu/~hull/bib2html,Bib2html}.
Which, in turn depends on man2html for proper installation.
man2html can be had from @uref{http://askdonald.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de/hppd/hpux/Networking/WWW/Man2html-1.05,http://askdonald.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de/hppd/hpux/Networking/WWW/Man2html-1.05}.
The website will build without this utility, but you will not see our
hypertextified bibliography.
-@item Doc++ (optional) to read the source code.
-
@end itemize
@section Configuring and compiling
This will install a number of files, something close to:
@example
- /usr/local/man/man1/mi2mu.1
+ /usr/local/man/man1/midi2ly.1
+ /usr/local/man/man1/abc2ly.1
+ /usr/local/man/man1/etf2ly.1
/usr/local/man/man1/convert-mudela.1
/usr/local/man/man1/mudela-book.1
/usr/local/man/man1/lilypond.1
/usr/local/bin/lilypond
- /usr/local/bin/mi2mu
+ /usr/local/bin/midi2ly
/usr/local/bin/convert-mudela
/usr/local/bin/mudela-book
/usr/local/bin/abc2ly
+ /usr/local/bin/etf2ly
/usr/local/share/lilypond/*
- /usr/local/share/locale/@{it,nl@}/LC_MESSAGES/lilypond.mo
+ /usr/local/share/locale/@{....@}/LC_MESSAGES/lilypond.mo
@end example
@example
- ./configure --prefix=~ --enable-profiling --enable-config=optprof --enable-optimise --disable-checking
- make config=optprof
- make config=optprof install
+ ./configure --prefix=~ --enable-profiling --enable-config=prof --enable-optimise --disable-checking
+ make config=prof
+ make config=prof install
@end example
@end example
Precompiled i386 RedHat RPMS are available from
-@uref{ftp://freshmeat.net/pub/rpms/lilypond/,ftp://freshmeat.net/pub/rpms/lilypond/} and
-@uref{http://linux.umbc.edu/software/lilypond/rpms/,http://linux.umbc.edu/software/lilypond/rpms/}.
+@uref{ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/RedHat/}.
For compilation on a RedHat system you need these packages,
in addition to the those needed for running:
@item flex
@item bison
@item texinfo
+@item tetex-devel
@end itemize
@section Debian GNU/linux
-A Debian package is also available; contact Anthony Fok
-@email{foka@@debian.org}. The build scripts are in the subdirectory
-@file{debian/}.
+A Debian package is also available; see
+@uref{http://packages.debian.org/lilypond,http://packages.debian.org/lilypond}
+or contact Anthony Fok @email{foka@@debian.org} for more information.
+
+The build scripts are in the subdirectory @file{debian/}; you can
+make the .deb by doing
+
+@example
+
+ tar xzf lilypond-x.y.z.tar.gz
+ cd lilypond-x.y.z
+ dpkg-buildpackage
+ dpkg -i ../lilypond_x.y.z*deb
+
+@end example
+
+For compilation on a Debian GNU/Linux system you need these packages,
+in addition to the those needed for running:
+@itemize @bullet
+@item libc6-dev
+@item libstdc++<your-libstdc++-version-here>-dev
+@item libguile<your-libguile-version-here>-dev
+@item flex
+@item bison
+@item gettext
+@item texinfo
+@item tetex-dev
+@item debhelper
+@end itemize
+
@section Windows NT/95
If you find bugs, please send bug reports to
@email{bug-gnu-music@@gnu.org}.
-Known bugs that are LilyPond's fault are listed in @file{TODO}, or
-demonstrated in @file{input/bugs/}.
+Bugs that are LilyPond's fault are listed in our TODO list on the
+web, or demonstrated in @file{input/bugs/}.
-Known bugs that are not LilyPond's fault are documented here.
+Bugs that are not LilyPond's fault are documented here.
@unnumbered LinuxPPC Bugs:
-@itemize
+@itemize @bullet
@item egcs-1.1.2-12c (stock LinuxPPC R5) has a serious bug, upgrade to
fixed in egcs-1.1.2-12f or gcc-2.95-0a, @uref{ftp://dev.linuxppc.org/users/fsirl/R5/RPMS/ppc/}
@unnumbered Linux-i386
-@itemize
+@itemize @bullet
@item SuSE6.2 and similar platforms (glibc 2.1, libstdc++ 2.9.0)
Lily will crash during parsing (which suggests a C++ library
@unnumbered Solaris:
-@itemize
+@itemize @bullet
@item Sparc64/Solaris 2.6, GNU make-3.77
GNU make-3.77 is buggy on this platform, upgrade to 3.78.1 or newer.
@unnumbered AIX
-@itemize
+@itemize @bullet
@item AIX 4.3 ld
The following is from the gcc install/SPECIFIC file.