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 more 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: PREREQUISITES
to regenerate the font tables, e.g.).
o GUILE 1.3 (no, GUILE 1.2 won't work), check out
- http://www.gnu.org/programs/guile.html.
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html.
3: RUNNING
mirror site ftp://ftp.dante.de
-o A fast computer (a full page of music typically takes 1
+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)
+ pile.
5: WEBSITE
-If you want to auto-generate Lily's website, you'll need
+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
+ 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-
+ 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
+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.
-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
+case, you can adjust your environment variables to your
taste:
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
-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
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
-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).
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,
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.
-o The -O2 option to gcc triggers a gcc bug on DEC Alpha
- in dstream.cc. You should turn off this flag for 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
file.
9: REDHAT LINUX
-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
10: DEBIAN GNU/LINUX
-A Debian package is also available; contact Anthony Fok
+A Debian package is also available; contact Anthony Fok
foka@debian.org <foka@debian.org>. The build scripts are in
the subdirectory debian/.
projects / lilypond.git / blobdiff