-TITLE INFORMATION: INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond
-AUTHOR INFORMATION: HWN & JCN
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-Contents
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-1: ABSTRACT
-2: PREREQUISITES
-3: RUNNING
-4: RECOMMENDED
-5: WEBSITE
-6: CONFIGURING and COMPILING
-7: CONFIGURING FOR MULTIPLE PLATFORMS
-8: INSTALLING
-9: REDHAT LINUX
-10: DEBIAN GNU/LINUX
-11: WINDOWS NT/95
-12: AUTHORS
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+ INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond
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+ HWN & JCN
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+Contents
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+ 1: ABSTRACT
+2: PREREQUISITES
+3: RUNNING
+4: RECOMMENDED
+5: WEBSITE
+6: CONFIGURING and COMPILING
+7: CONFIGURING FOR MULTIPLE PLATFORMS
+8: INSTALLING
+9: REDHAT LINUX
+10: DEBIAN GNU/LINUX
+11: WINDOWS NT/95
+12: AUTHORS
+
1: ABSTRACT
+
You do something which looks remotely like
- configure # Check out the buildscripts/set-lily.sh script
- make
- make install
-The detailed instructions follow here. The
-buildscripts/set-lily.sh script sets some environment variables
-and symlinks, which comes in handly when you have to compile LilyPond
-very often. It is aimed at people who run (or debug) LilyPond without
-installing.
+
+
+
+ configure # Check out the buildscripts/set-lily.sh script
+ make
+ make install
+
+
+
+
+
+The detailed instructions follow here. The build-
+scripts/set-lily.sh script sets some environment variables
+and symlinks, which comes in handly when you have to compile
+LilyPond very often. It is aimed at people who run (or
+debug) LilyPond without installing.
+
2: PREREQUISITES
+
For compilation you need:
-o A GNU system: GNU LilyPond is known to run on these GNU systems: Linux
- (PPC, intel), FreeBSD, AIX, NeXTStep, IRIX, Digital Unix and
-Solaris.
-o Lots of disk space: LilyPond takes between 50 and 100 mb to
-compile if you use debugging information. If you are short on
-disk-space run configure with --disable-debugging.
+o A GNU system: GNU LilyPond is known to run on these GNU
+ systems: Linux (PPC, intel), FreeBSD, AIX, NeXTStep,
+ IRIX, Digital Unix and Solaris.
+
+
+o Lots of disk space: LilyPond takes between 50 and 100
+ mb to compile if you use debugging information. If you
+ are short on disk-space run configure with --disable-
+ debugging.
+
+ Although we recommend to use Unix, LilyPond is known to
+ run on Windows NT/95/98 as well. See Section 11.
-Although we recommend to use Unix, LilyPond is known to run on Windows
-NT/95/98 as well. See Section [w32].
-o GNU C++ version 2.7 or newer (2.8 and egcs are also fine).
-o Python 1.5 (Strictly speaking, you shouldn't need Python for
- compiling and installing, but you'll need it to regenerate the font
- tables, e.g.).
+o GNU C++ version 2.7 or newer (2.8 and egcs are also
+ fine).
+
+o Python 1.5 (Strictly speaking, you shouldn't need
+ Python for compiling and installing, but you'll need it
+ to regenerate the font tables, e.g.).
+
3: RUNNING
-GNU LilyPond does use a lot of resources. For operation you need the following:
-o TeX
-o A PostScript printer and/or viewer (such as Ghostscript) is strongly
- recommended. Xdvi will show all embedded PostScript too if you have
- Ghostscript installed.
+GNU LilyPond does use a lot of resources. For operation you
+need the following:
+
+
+o TeX
+
+o A PostScript printer and/or viewer (such as
+ Ghostscript) is strongly recommended. Xdvi will show
+ all embedded PostScript too if you have Ghostscript
+ installed.
+
+For running LilyPond successfully you have to help TeX and
+MetaFont find various files. The recommended way of doing
+so is adjusting the environment variables in the start-up
+scripts of your shell. An example is given here for the
+Bourne shell:
+
+
+
+
+ export MFINPUTS="/usr/local/share/lilypond/mf:"
+ export TEXINPUTS="/usr/local/share/lilypond/tex:"
+
+
+
+
+The empty path component represents and MetaFont's default
+search paths. Scripts with the proper paths for the bourne
+and C-shell respectively are generated in build-
+scripts/out/lilypond-profile and buildscripts/out/lilypond-
+login during compilation.
+
4: RECOMMENDED
-Although not strictly necessary, these are recommended to have.
-o GNU make.
-Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org
-or any mirror of this site.
+Although not strictly necessary, these are recommended to
+have.
+
-o Flex (version 2.5.4 or newer).
-Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org
-or any mirror of this site.
-o Bison (version 1.25 or newer).
-Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org
-or any mirror of this site.
+o GNU make. Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any mirror of
+ this site.
-o Python (version 1.5 or newer). Check out
-ftp://ftp.python.org or ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/python.
-o Yodl. All documentation will be in Yodl. (1.30.17)
-ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/yodl
- http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/yodl
-o Texinfo. (version 3.12 or newer)
+o Flex (version 2.5.4 or newer). Check out
+ ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any mirror of this site.
-o GNU find
-Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org
-or any mirror of this site.
+o Bison (version 1.25 or newer). Check out
+ ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any mirror of this site.
-o The geometry package for LaTeX is needed to use ly2dvi.
- Available at
-ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry
-or at mirror site ftp://ftp.dante.de
-o A fast computer (a full page of music typically takes 1 minute on my
- 486/133, using the --enable-checking compile. It's lot slower than
- most MusiXTeX preprocessors)
+o GUILE (version 1.2) Check out http://www.gnu.org/pro-
+ grams/guile.html
+
+
+o Python (version 1.5 or newer). Check out
+ ftp://ftp.python.org or ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/python.
+
+
+o Yodl. All documentation will be in Yodl. (1.30.17)
+ ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/yodl
+ http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/yodl
+
+o Texinfo. (version 3.12 or newer)
+
+
+o GNU find Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any mirror of
+ this site.
+
+
+o The geometry package for LaTeX is needed to use ly2dvi.
+ Available at ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-
+ archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/geometry or at
+ mirror site ftp://ftp.dante.de
+
+
+o A fast computer (a full page of music typically takes 1
+ minute on my 486/133, using the --enable-checking com-
+ pile. It's lot slower than most MusiXTeX preprocessors)
+
5: WEBSITE
-If you want to auto-generate Lily's website, you'll need some additional
-conversion tools.
-o xpmtoppm (from the Portable Bitmap Utilities) (For RedHat Linux
- users: it is included within the package libgr-progs).
-o Bib2html http://pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu/~hull/bib2html.
- Which, in turn depends on man2html for proper installation.
-man2html can be had from http://askdonald.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de/hppd/hpux/Networking/WWW/Man2html-1.05.
+If you want to auto-generate Lily's website, you'll need
+some additional conversion tools.
+
+
+o xpmtoppm (from the Portable Bitmap Utilities) (For Red-
+ Hat Linux users: it is included within the package
+ libgr-progs).
+
+o Bib2html http://pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu/~hull/bib2html.
+ Which, in turn depends on man2html for proper installa-
+ tion. man2html can be had from http://askdon-
+ ald.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de/hppd/hpux/Network-
+ ing/WWW/Man2html-1.05.
+
+ TeTeX users should not forget to rerun texhash.
+
+Building the website requires pnmtopng. The version of pnm-
+topng that is distributed with RedHat 5.1 contains a bug
+(pnmtopng is dynamically linked to the wrong version of
+libpng). Recompile it from source, and make sure that the
+pnmtopng binary is linked statically to the libpng that is
+
+
+included in libgr.
+
+
+
+
+
+ tar xzf libgr-2.0.13.tar.gz
+ make
+ cd png
+ rm libpng.so*
+ make pnmtopng
+
+
+
+
+
+You can then install the new pnmtopng into /usr/local/bin/
- TeTeX users should not forget to rerun texhash.
6: CONFIGURING and COMPILING
+
to install GNU LilyPond, simply type:
- configure --enable-tex-dir=XXXX --enable-mf-dir=YYYY
- make
- make install
+
+
+
+
+ configure
+ make
+ make install
+
+
+
+
This will install a number of files, something close to:
- /usr/local/man/man1/mi2mu.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/share/lilypond/*
- /usr/local/share/locale/{it,nl}/LC_MESSAGES/lilypond.mo
- /usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/lilypond/*
-
-You should specify directories that are in TeX's and MetaFont's
-include path with the options (--enable-tex-dir) and
---enable-mf-dir. If you don't specify any directories, the TeX
-include directory is detected dynamically, which is unreliable. The
-above assumes that you are root and have the GNU development tools,
-and your make is GNU make. If this is not the case, you can adjust
-your environment variables to your taste:
-
- export CPPFLAGS="-I /home/me/my_include -DWEIRD_FOOBAR"
- configure
-
-CPPFLAGS are the preprocessor flags.
+
+
+
+
+ /usr/local/man/man1/mi2mu.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/share/lilypond/*
+ /usr/local/share/locale/{it,nl}/LC_MESSAGES/lilypond.mo
+
+
+The above assumes that you are root and have the GNU devel-
+opment tools, and your make is GNU make. If this is not the
+case, you can adjust your environment variables to your
+taste:
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ export CPPFLAGS="-I /home/me/my_include -DWEIRD_FOOBAR"
+ configure
+
+
+
+
+
+CPPFLAGS are the preprocessor flags.
The configure script is Cygnus configure, and it will accept
---help. If you are not root, you will probably have to make it
-with a different --prefix option. Our favourite location is
+--help. If you are not root, you will probably have to make
+it with a different --prefix option. Our favourite location
+is
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
+
+
+
+
+
+In this case, you will have to set up MFINPUTS, and TEXIN-
+PUTS accordingly.
+
+Since GNU LilyPond currently is beta, you are advised to
+also use
- configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
-In this case, you will have to set up MFINPUTS, and TEXINPUTS accordingly.
-If you want to install GNU LilyPond in /usr/local, and your TeX has
-no default hooks for local stuff, you can do:
- configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-tex-prefix=/usr/lib/texmf
-Since GNU LilyPond currently is beta, you are advised to also use
- --enable-debugging
- --enable-checking
+ --enable-debugging
+ --enable-checking
-Other options include:
-o --enable-shared
- Make a shared library (gnu/linux, solaris (?) only ) (TEMPORARILY
-OUT OF ORDER)
+Options to configure include:
-o --enable-printing
- Enable debugging print routines (lilypond -D option)
-o --enable-optimise
- Set maximum optimisation: compile with -O2
-o --enable-profiling
- Compile with support for profiling.
-o --enable-tex-prefix
- Set the directory where TeX and Metafont live.
-o --enable-tex-dir
- Set then directory TeX input is in (detected as a subdir of
- tex-prefix). This should be a directory that is reachable both for
- tex and latex. On my system the best choice would be
- /usr/lib/texmf/texmf/tex/generic//.
-o --enable-mf-dir
- Set the directory metafont input is in (idem). On my system the best
- choice would be /usr/lib/texmf/texmf/fonts/source/public/.
-o --enable-config
- Output to a different configuration file. Needed for multi-platform
- builds
-All options are documented in the configure help
-The option --enable-optimise is recommended for Real Life usage.
+--enable-guile
+ Link in GUILE (experimental)
+
+--enable-printing
+ Enable debugging print routines (lilypond -D option)
+
+--enable-optimise
+ Set maximum optimisation: compile with -O2. This can
+ be unreliable on some compiler/platform combinations
+ (eg, DEC Alpha and PPC)
+
+--enable-profiling
+ Compile with support for profiling.
+
+--enable-config
+ Output to a different configuration file. Needed for
+ multi-platform builds
+
+All options are documented in the configure help The option
+--enable-optimise is recommended for Real Life usage.
If you do
- make all
-everything will be compiled, but nothing will be installed. The
-resulting binaries can be found in the subdirectories out/ (which
-contain all files generated during compilation).
+
+
+
+
+ make all
+
+
+
+
+
+everything will be compiled, but nothing will be installed.
+The resulting binaries can be found in the subdirectories
+out/ (which contain all files generated during compilation).
+
7: CONFIGURING FOR MULTIPLE PLATFORMS
-If you want to compile LilyPond with different configuration settings,
-then, you can use the --enable-config option. Example: suppose I
-want to build with and without profiling. Then I'd use the
-following for the normal build,
- configure --prefix=~ --disable-optimise --enable-checking
- make
- make install
+If you want to compile LilyPond with different configuration
+settings, then, you can use the --enable-config option.
+Example: suppose I want to build with and without profil-
+ing. Then I'd use the following for the normal build,
+
+
+ configure --prefix=~ --disable-optimise --enable-checking
+ make
+ make install
+
+
+
+
+
+and for the profiling version, I specify a different config-
+uration.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ configure --prefix=~ --enable-profiling --enable-config=optprof --enable-optimise --disable-checking
+ make config=optprof
+ make config=optprof install
+
+
+
-and for the profiling version, I specify a different configuration.
- configure --prefix=~ --enable-profiling --enable-config=optprof --enable-optimise --disable-checking
- make config=optprof
- make config=optprof install
8: INSTALLING
+
If you have done a successful make, then a simple
- make install
+
+
+
+
+
+ make install
+
+
+
+
should do the trick.
-If you are doing an upgrade, please remember to remove obsolete
-.pk and .tfm files of the fonts. A script has been
+If you are doing an upgrade, please remember to remove obso-
+lete .pk and .tfm files of the fonts. A script has been
provided to do the work for you, see bin/clean-fonts.sh.
+
CAVEATS
-o The -O2 option to gcc triggers a gcc bug on DEC Alpha in dstream.cc. You
- should turn off this flag for this file.
+
+
+o The -O2 option to gcc triggers a gcc bug on DEC Alpha
+ in dstream.cc. You should turn off this flag for this
+
+
+ file.
+
EXAMPLE
+
This is what I type in my xterm:
- lilypond someinput.ly
- tex someinput.tex
- xdvi someinput&
+
+
+
+
+
+ lilypond someinput.ly
+ tex someinput.tex
+ xdvi someinput&
+
+
+
+
This is what the output looks like over here:
- GNU LilyPond 0.0.78 #4/FlowerLib 1.1.24 #0
- Parsing ... [/home/hw/share/lilypond/init//
- <..etc..>
- init//performer.ly]]][input/kortjakje.ly]
- Creating elements ...[8][16][24][25]
- Preprocessing elements...
- Calculating column positions ... [14][25]
- Postprocessing elements...
- TeX output to someinput.tex ...
- Creating MIDI elements ...MIDI output to someinput.midi ...
- hw:~/musix/spacer$ xdvi someinput&
- [1] 855
-Check out the input files, some of them have comments
-Please refer to the man page for more information.
+
+
+
+ GNU LilyPond 0.0.78 #4/FlowerLib 1.1.24 #0
+ Parsing ... [/home/hw/share/lilypond/init//
+ <..etc..>
+ init//performer.ly]]][input/kortjakje.ly]
+ Creating elements ...[8][16][24][25]
+ Preprocessing elements...
+ Calculating column positions ... [14][25]
+ Postprocessing elements...
+ TeX output to someinput.tex ...
+ Creating MIDI elements ...MIDI output to someinput.midi ...
+
+
+ hw:~/musix/spacer$ xdvi someinput&
+ [1] 855
+
+
+
+
+
+Check out the input files, some of them have comments Please
+refer to the man page for more information.
+
9: REDHAT LINUX
-RedHat Linux users can compile an RPM. A spec file is in
-make/out/lilypond.spec. You should install a gif file called
-lelie_icon.gif along with the sources. You can generate this
-gif file by typing
- make gifs
+RedHat Linux users can compile an RPM. A spec file is in
+make/out/lilypond.spec. You should install a gif file
+called lelie_icon.gif along with the sources. You can gen-
+erate this gif file by typing
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ make gifs
+
+
+
+
in the directory Documentation.
You can make the rpm by issuing
- make rpm
+
+
+
+
+
+ make rpm
+
+
+
+
+
10: DEBIAN GNU/LINUX
-A Debian package is also available; contact Anthony Fok
-<foka@debian.org>. The build scripts are in the subdirectory debian/
+
+A Debian package is also available; contact Anthony Fok
+foka@debian.org <foka@debian.org>. The build scripts are in
+the subdirectory debian/
+
11: WINDOWS NT/95
-Separate instructions on building for W32 are avaible
-in the file README-W32.yo.
+
+Separate instructions on building for W32 are avaible in the
+file README-W32.yo.
+
12: AUTHORS
+
Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>