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INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond
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Contents
1: ABSTRACT
-2: PREREQUISITES
-3: RUNNING
-4: RECOMMENDED
+2: OBTAINING
+3: PREREQUISITES
+4: RUNNING
5: WEBSITE
6: CONFIGURING and COMPILING
7: CONFIGURING FOR MULTIPLE PLATFORMS
11: WINDOWS NT/95
12: AUTHORS
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1: ABSTRACT
-
This document explains what you need to install LilyPond,
and what you should do. If you are going to compile and
-install LilyPond very often you might want to check out the
-buildscripts/set-lily.sh script. It sets some environment
-variables and symlinks, which comes in handly when you have
-to compile LilyPond very often.
+install LilyPond often, e.g. when doing development, you
+might want to check out the buildscripts/set-lily.sh script.
+It sets some environment variables and symlinks, which comes
+in handly when you have to compile LilyPond more often.
+2: OBTAINING
-2: PREREQUISITES
+You can get the latest version of LilyPond at
+ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/. Refer to the links
+document for mirror sites.
+If you upgrade by patching do remember to rerun autoconf
+after applying the patch.
-For compilation you need:
+3: 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,
+ systems: Linux (PPC, intel), FreeBSD, AIX, NeXTStep,
IRIX, Digital Unix and Solaris.
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-o Lots of disk space: LilyPond takes between 50 and 100
+o Lots of disk space: LilyPond takes between 30 and 100
mb to compile if you use debugging information. If you
- are short on disk-space run configure with --disable-
+ 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.
+o EGCS 1.1 or newer.
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+o Python 1.5, Check out ftp://ftp.python.org or
+ ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/python.
-o GNU C++ version 2.7 or newer (2.8 and egcs are also
- fine).
+o GUILE 1.3, check out http://www.gnu.org/soft-
+ ware/guile/guile.html.
-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 make. Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org.
+o Flex (version 2.5.4 or newer). Check out
+ ftp://ftp.gnu.org.
-o GUILE 1.3 (no, GUILE 1.2 won't work)
+o Bison (version 1.25 or newer). Check out
+ ftp://ftp.gnu.org.
+o Yodl. All documentation will be in Yodl. (1.30.17)
+ ftp://ftp.lilypond.org/pub/yodl
-3: RUNNING
+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 MetaPost, if you want to use direct PostScript output.
+ Please note that tetex-0.4pl8 (included with Redhat
+ 5.x) does not include mfplain.mp, which is needed for
+ producing the scaleable font files.
-GNU LilyPond does use a lot of resources. For operation you
-need the following:
+4: RUNNING
+GNU LilyPond does use a lot of resources. For operation you
+need the following software
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
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+ Ghostscript) is strongly recommended. Xdvi will show
+ all embedded PostScript too if you have Ghostscript
installed.
+o GUILE 1.3, check out http://www.gnu.org/pro-
+ grams/guile.html
+
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:
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export MFINPUTS="/usr/local/share/lilypond/mf:"
- export TEXINPUTS="/usr/local/share/lilypond/tex:"
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+ export TEXINPUTS="/usr/local/share/lilypond/tex:/usr/local/share/lilypond/ps:"
The empty path component represents and MetaFont's default
search paths. Scripts with the proper paths for the bourne
scripts/out/lilypond-profile and buildscripts/out/lilypond-
login during compilation.
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-4: RECOMMENDED
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-Although not strictly necessary, these are recommended to
-have.
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-o GNU make. Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any mirror of
- this site.
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-o Flex (version 2.5.4 or newer). Check out
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any mirror of this site.
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-o Bison (version 1.25 or newer). Check out
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any mirror of this site.
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-o GUILE (version 1.2) Check out http://www.gnu.org/pro-
- grams/guile.html
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-o Python (version 1.5 or newer). Check out
- ftp://ftp.python.org or ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/python.
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-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
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-o Texinfo. (version 3.12 or newer)
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-o GNU find Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any mirror of
- this site.
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-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
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-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)
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+LilyPond is a hideously slow program. A fast CPU and plenty
+of RAM is recommended for comfortable use.
5: WEBSITE
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If you want to auto-generate Lily's website, you'll need
some additional conversion tools.
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o xpmtoppm (from the Portable Bitmap Utilities) (For Red-
Hat Linux users: it is included within the package
- libgr-progs).
+ libgr-progs). the original is at ftp://ftp.x.org/con-
+ trib/utilities/netpbm-1mar1994.p1.tar.gz
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+o pnmtopng, which is also in libgr-progs for RedHat. The
+ original is at
+ ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/applications/pnm-
+ topng-2.37.2.tar.gz.i
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+ The version of pnmtopng that is distributed with RedHat
+ 5.1 and 5.2 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. RedHat 6.0 does not have this problem.
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+ tar xzf libgr-2.0.13.tar.gz
+ make
+ cd png
+ rm libpng.so*
+ make pnmtopng
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+ You can then install the new pnmtopng into
+ /usr/local/bin/
o Bib2html http://pertsserver.cs.uiuc.edu/~hull/bib2html.
Which, in turn depends on man2html for proper installa-
ald.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de/hppd/hpux/Network-
ing/WWW/Man2html-1.05.
- TeTeX users should not forget to rerun texhash.
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-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.
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- tar xzf libgr-2.0.13.tar.gz
- make
- cd png
- rm libpng.so*
- make pnmtopng
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+ The website will build without this utility, but you
+ will not see our hypertextified bibliography.
+ TeTeX users should not forget to rerun texhash.
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-You can then install the new pnmtopng into /usr/local/bin/
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+You also have to install buildscripts/out/ps-to-gifs in a
+directory that is in the path.
6: CONFIGURING and COMPILING
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to install GNU LilyPond, simply type:
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gunzip -c lilypond-x.y.z | tar xf -
cd lilypond-x.y.z
- configure # fill in your standard prefix with --prefix
+ ./configure # fill in your standard prefix with --prefix
make
make install
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This will install a number of files, something close to:
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/usr/local/man/man1/mi2mu.1
/usr/local/man/man1/convert-mudela.1
/usr/local/man/man1/mudela-book.1
/usr/local/share/lilypond/*
/usr/local/share/locale/{it,nl}/LC_MESSAGES/lilypond.mo
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-The above assumes that you are root and have the GNU devel-
+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
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+case, you can adjust your environment variables to your
taste:
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export CPPFLAGS="-I /home/me/my_include -DWEIRD_FOOBAR"
- configure
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+ ./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
+--help. If you are not root, you will probably have to make
it with a different --prefix option. Our favourite location
is
+ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
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- configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
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-In this case, you will have to set up MFINPUTS, and TEXIN-
+In this case, you will have to set up MFINPUTS, and TEXIN-
PUTS accordingly.
-Since GNU LilyPond currently is beta, you are advised to
+Since GNU LilyPond currently is beta, you are advised to
also use
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--enable-debugging
--enable-checking
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Options to configure include:
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---enable-guile
- Link in GUILE (experimental)
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--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
+ 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
+ Output to a different configuration file. Needed for
multi-platform builds
-All options are documented in the configure help The option
+All options are documented in the configure help The option
--enable-optimise is recommended for Real Life usage.
If you do
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make all
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-everything will be compiled, but nothing will be installed.
-The resulting binaries can be found in the subdirectories
+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).
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7: CONFIGURING FOR MULTIPLE PLATFORMS
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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-
+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,
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- configure --prefix=~ --disable-optimise --enable-checking
+ ./configure --prefix=~ --disable-optimise --enable-checking
make
make install
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and for the profiling version, I specify a different config-
uration.
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- configure --prefix=~ --enable-profiling --enable-config=optprof --enable-optimise --disable-checking
+ ./configure --prefix=~ --enable-profiling --enable-config=optprof --enable-optimise --disable-checking
make config=optprof
make config=optprof install
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8: INSTALLING
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If you have done a successful make, then a simple
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make install
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should do the trick.
If you are doing an upgrade, please remember to remove obso-
-lete .pk and .tfm files of the fonts. A script has been
+lete .pk and .tfm files of the fonts. A script has been
provided to do the work for you, see bin/clean-fonts.sh.
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CAVEATS
+o The -O2 option triggers bugs on various platforms
+ (PowerPC, Alpha). If you experience problems, you
+ should first try turning off this.
-o The -O2 option to gcc triggers a gcc bug on DEC Alpha
- in dstream.cc. You should turn off this flag for this
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- file.
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+o On PPC you need at least EGCS-1.1.2f.
EXAMPLE
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This is what I type in my xterm:
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lilypond someinput.ly
tex someinput.tex
xdvi someinput&
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This is what the output looks like over here:
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GNU LilyPond 0.0.78 #4/FlowerLib 1.1.24 #0
Parsing ... [/home/hw/share/lilypond/init//
<..etc..>
TeX output to someinput.tex ...
Creating MIDI elements ...MIDI output to someinput.midi ...
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hw:~/musix/spacer$ xdvi someinput&
[1] 855
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Check out the input files, some of them have comments Please
refer to the man page for more information.
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9: REDHAT LINUX
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-RedHat Linux users can compile an RPM. A spec file is in
-make/out/lilypond.spec, it is distributed along with the
+RedHat Linux users can compile an RPM. A spec file is in
+make/out/lilypond.spec, it is distributed along with the
sources.
You can make the rpm by issuing
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rpm -tb lilypond-x.y.z.tar.gz
rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/lilypond-x.y.z
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+Precompiled i386 RedHat RPMS are available from
+http://linux.umbc.edu/software/lilypond/rpms/.
10: DEBIAN GNU/LINUX
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A Debian package is also available; contact Anthony Fok
-foka@debian.org <foka@debian.org>. The build scripts are in
-the subdirectory debian/.
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+foka@debian.org. The build scripts are in the subdirectory
+debian/.
11: WINDOWS NT/95
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Separate instructions on building for W32 are avaible in the
file README-W32.yo.
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12: AUTHORS
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Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
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