X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL.txt;h=09be506e995f928b8332a23c1bdee4f0579d6ef4;hb=0b333486fdb269350815b00bb8f16659fdc9079a;hp=c62032bee9c414fa1b2fbac2c7e0775012f40af3;hpb=151617937a431d3db3e94a16db011600acdb4288;p=lilypond.git diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt index c62032bee9..09be506e99 100644 --- a/INSTALL.txt +++ b/INSTALL.txt @@ -1,488 +1,486 @@ +INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond +*********************************************** +Table of Contents +***************** +INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond + Precompiled binaries + Downloading + Compiling from source + Downloading source code + Requirements + Compilation + Running requirements + Requirements for building documentation + Building LilyPond + Compiling + Compiling for multiple platforms + Compiling outside the source tree + Useful `make' variables + Building documentation + Commands for building documentation + Building documentation without compiling LilyPond + Testing LilyPond + Problems + Bison 1.875 + Solaris + FreeBSD + International fonts +There are two sets of releases for LilyPond: stable releases, and +unstable development releases. Stable versions have an even-numbered +`minor' version number (i.e. 2.8, 2.10, 2.12, etc). Development +versions have an odd-numbered `minor' version number (i.e. 2.7, 2.9, +2.11, etc). + Building LilyPond is a very involved process, so we *highly* +recommend using the precompiled binaries. +Precompiled binaries +==================== +Downloading +----------- +Check out `http://lilypond.org/web/install/' for up to date information +on binary packages for your platform. If your operating system is not +covered on that general page, please see the complete list at +`http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/binaries/' - INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond + We currently create binaries for - HWN & JCN + darwin-ppc - MacOS X powerpc + darwin-x86 - MacOS X intel + freebsd-64 - FreeBSD 6.x, x86_64 + freebsd-x86 - FreeBSD 4.x, x86 + linux-64 - Any GNU/Linux distribution, x86_64 + linux-ppc - Any GNU/Linux distribution, powerpc + linux-x86 - Any GNU/Linux distribution, x86 + mingw - Windows x86 -Contents +Known issues and warnings +......................... - 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 +If you have MacOS 10.3 or 10.4 and you would like to use Python scripts +such as `convert-ly' and `lilypond-book', see *note Setup for MacOS X: +(lilypond-program)Setup for MacOS X. +Compiling from source +===================== -1: ABSTRACT +Downloading source code +----------------------- +Download source -You do something which looks remotely like + * tarballs from `http://lilypond.org/download/' by HTTP. + * tarballs from `http://download.linuxaudio.org/lilypond/' by HTTP. + * GIT from git.sv.gnu.org + (http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=summary) + git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git + The repository does not contain generated files. To create + `configure', run + ./autogen.sh - configure # Check out the buildscripts/set-lily.sh script - make - make install + For information on packaging, see `http://lilypond.org/devel'. +Requirements +------------ +Compilation +........... +In addition to the packages needed for running LilyPond (see below), you +need the following extra packages for building. + When installing a binary package FOO, you may need to install the +FOO-devel, libFOO-dev or FOO-dev package too. -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. + * FontForge (http://fontforge.sf.net/) 20060125 or newer. + * MetaFont (http://metafont.tutorial.free.fr/) (mf-nowin, mf, mfw or + mfont binaries) and MetaPost + (http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/MetaPost.html) (mpost binary), + usually packaged with a LaTeX distribution like tetex or texlive. -2: PREREQUISITES + * t1utils (http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/type/#t1utils) (version + 1.33 or newer recommended). + * New Century Schoolbook fonts, as PFB files. These are shipped with + X11 and Ghostscript, and are named `c059033l.pfb' `c059036l.pfb', + `c059013l.pfb' and `c059016l.pfb'. -For compilation you need: + * GUILE (http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html) (version + 1.8.2 or newer). If you are installing binary packages, you may + need to install guile-devel or guile-dev or libguile-dev too. + * Texinfo (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/) (version 4.11 or newer). -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. + * The GNU c++ compiler (http://gcc.gnu.org/) (version 3.4 or newer. + 4.x is strongly recommended). + * Python (http://www.python.org) (version 2.4 or newer) -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. + * GNU Make (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/) (version 3.78 or newer). - Although we recommend to use Unix, LilyPond is known to - run on Windows NT/95/98 as well. See Section 11. + * gettext (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html) + (version 0.17 or newer). + * Flex (http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/). -o GNU C++ version 2.7 or newer (2.8 and egcs are also - fine). + * Perl (http://www.perl.org/). -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.). + * GNU Bison (http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/). + * All packages required for running, including development packages + with header files and libraries. -3: RUNNING +Running requirements +.................... -GNU LilyPond does use a lot of resources. For operation you -need the following: +Running LilyPond requires proper installation of the following software + * Freetype (http://www.freetype.org/) (version 2.1.10 or newer). -o TeX + * FontConfig (http://fontconfig.org/) (version 2.2 or newer). -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. + * Pango (http://www.pango.org/) (version 1.12 or newer). + * GUILE (http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html) (version + 1.8.2 or newer), or patch 1.8.1 with + `http://lilypond.org/vc/gub.darcs/patches/guile-1.8-rational.patch'. -4: RECOMMENDED + * Python (http://www.python.org) (version 2.4 or newer). + * Ghostscript (http://www.ghostscript.com) (version 8.15 or newer. + 8.60 recommended) -Although not strictly necessary, these are recommended to -have. + * Dejaview. (This is normally installed by default) + International fonts are required to create music with international +text or lyrics. -o GNU make. Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any mirror of - this site. +Requirements for building documentation +....................................... +You can view the documentation online at `http://lilypond.org/doc/', +but you can also build it locally. This process requires a successful +compile of LilyPond, and some additional tools and packages: -o Flex (version 2.5.4 or newer). Check out - ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any mirror of this site. + * The netpbm utilities (http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/) -o Bison (version 1.25 or newer). Check out - ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any mirror of this site. + * ImageMagick + * International fonts (see input/regression/utf-8.ly for hints about + which font packages are necessary for your platform) -o Python (version 1.5 or newer). Check out - ftp://ftp.python.org or ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/python. + * Ghostscript 8.60 or newer, or 8.50 with the patch from + `http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688154' and the patch + from `http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688017'. + * Texi2HTML (http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html/) 1.80 or newer -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 + * rsync -o Texinfo. (version 3.12 or newer) +Building LilyPond +----------------- +Compiling +......... -o GNU find Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org or any mirror of - this site. +To install GNU LilyPond, type + gunzip -c lilypond-x.y.z | tar xf - + cd lilypond-x.y.z + ./configure # run with --help for applicable options + make + su -c 'make install' -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 +If you are not root, you should choose a `--prefix' argument that +points into your home directory, e.g. + ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr -o A fast computer (a full page of music typically takes 1 - minute on my 486/133, using the --enable-checking com- - pile. It's lot slower than most MusiXTeX preprocessors) +Compiling for multiple platforms +................................ +If you want to build multiple versions of LilyPond with different +configuration settings, you can use the `--enable-config=CONF' option +of `configure'. You should use `make conf=CONF' to generate the output +in `out-CONF'. For example, suppose you want to build with and without +profiling, then use the following for the normal build -5: WEBSITE + ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr/ --enable-checking + make + make install + and for the profiling version, specify a different configuration -If you want to auto-generate Lily's website, you'll need -some additional conversion tools. + ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr/ --enable-profiling --enable-config=prof --disable-checking + make conf=prof + make conf=prof install +Compiling outside the source tree +................................. -o xpmtoppm (from the Portable Bitmap Utilities) (For Red- - Hat Linux users: it is included within the package - libgr-progs). +It is possible to compile LilyPond in a build tree different from the +source tree, with `--srcdir' option of `configure': -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. + mkdir lily-build && cd lily-build + SOURCEDIR/configure --srcdir=SOURCEDIR - TeTeX users should not forget to rerun texhash. +Useful `make' variables +....................... +If a less verbose build output if desired, the variable `QUIET_BUILD' +may be set to `1' on `make' command line, or in `local.make' at top of +the build tree. -6: CONFIGURING and COMPILING +Building documentation +---------------------- +This requires a successful compile of LilyPond, or using an external +LilyPond binary. -to install GNU LilyPond, simply type: +Commands for building documentation +................................... +The documentation is built by issuing + make doc + After compilation, the HTML documentation tree is available in +`out-www/offline-root/', and can be browsed locally. + The HTML, PDF and if available Info files can be installed into the +standard documentation path by issuing - configure --enable-tex-dir=XXXX --enable-mf-dir=YYYY - make - make install + make install-doc +This also installs Info documentation with images if the installation +prefix is properly set; otherwise, instructions to complete proper +installation of Info documentation are printed on standard output. + Compilation of documentation in Info format with images can be done +separately by issuing + make info +Separate installation of this documentation is done by issuing -This will install a number of files, something close to: + make install-info +Note that to get the images in Info documentation, `install-doc' target +creates symbolic links to HTML and PDF installed documentation tree in +`PREFIX/share/info', in order to save disk space, whereas +`install-info' copies images in `PREFIX/share/info' subdirectories. - /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/* + It is possible to build a documentation tree in +`out-www/online-root/', with special processing, so it can be used on a +website with content negotiation for automatic language selection; this +can be achieved by issuing + make WEB_TARGETS=online doc +and both `offline' and `online' targets can be generated by issuing + make WEB_TARGETS="offline online" doc + Several targets are available to clean the documentation build and +help with maintaining documentation; an overview of these targets is +available with -You should specify directories that are in 's and MetaFont's -include path with the options (--enable-tex-dir) and ---enable-mf-dir. If you don't specify any directories, the -include directory is detected dynamically, which is unreli- -able. 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: + make help +from every directory in the build tree. Most targets for documentation +maintenance are available from `Documentation/'; for more information, +see the Contributors' Guide, section _Documentation work_. + The makefile variable `QUIET_BUILD' may be set to `1' for a less +verbose build output, just like for building the programs. +Known issues and warnings +......................... - export CPPFLAGS="-I /home/me/my_include -DWEIRD_FOOBAR" - configure +The most time consuming task for building the documentation is running +LilyPond to build images of music, and there cannot be several +simultaneously running `lilypond-book' instances, so `-j' `make' option +does not significantly speed up the build process. To help speed it +up, the makefile variable CPU_COUNT may be set in `local.make' or on +the command line to the number of `.ly' files that LilyPond should +process simultaneously, e.g. on a bi-processor or dual core machine + make -j3 CPU_COUNT=3 doc +The recommended value of CPU_COUNT is one plus the number of cores or +processors, but it is advisable to set it to a smaller value if your +system has not enough RAM to run that many simultaneous LilyPond +instances. + If source files have changed since last documentation build, output +files that need to be rebuilt are normally rebuilt, even if you do not +run `make doc-clean' first. However, building dependencies in the +documentation are so complex that rebuilding of some targets may not be +triggered as they should be; a workaround is to force rebuilding by +touching appropriate files, e.g. + touch Documentation/user/*.itely + touch input/lsr/*.ly -CPPFLAGS are the preprocessor flags. +Building documentation without compiling LilyPond +................................................. -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 +The documentation can be built locally without compiling LilyPond +binary, if LilyPond is already installed on your system. + From a fresh Git checkout, do + ./autogen.sh # ignore any warning messages + cp GNUmakefile.in GNUmakefile + make -C python + nice make LILYPOND_EXTERNAL_BINARY=/path/to/bin/lilypond doc + Please note that this may break sometimes - for example, if a new +feature is added with a test file in input/regression, even the latest +development release of LilyPond will fail to build the docs. + You may build the manual without building all the `input/*' stuff: +change directory, for example to `Documentation/user', issue `make +doc', which will build documentation in a subdirectory `out-www' from +the source files in current directory. In this case, if you also want +to browse the documentation in its post-processed form, change back to +top directory and issue + make out=www WWW-post - configure --prefix=$HOME/usr +Known issues and warnings +......................... -In this case, you will have to set up MFINPUTS, and TEXIN- -PUTS accordingly. +You may also need to create a script for `pngtopnm' and `pnmtopng'. On +GNU/Linux, I use this: -If you want to install GNU LilyPond in /usr/local, and your -TeX has no default hooks for local stuff, you can do: +export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib +exec /usr/bin/pngtopnm "$@" + On MacOS X, I use this: +export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/sw/lib +exec /sw/bin/pngtopnm "$@" +Testing LilyPond +---------------- +LilyPond comes with an extensive suite that exercises the entire +program. This suite can be used to automatically check the impact of a +change. This is done as follows + make test-baseline + _## apply your changes, compile_ + make check - configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-tex-prefix=/usr/lib/texmf + This will leave an HTML page `out/test-results/index.html'. This +page shows all the important differences that your change introduced, +whether in the layout, MIDI, performance or error reporting. + To rerun tests, use + make test-redo _## redo files differing from baseline_ + make test-clean _## remove all test results_ +and then run `make check' again. + For tracking memory usage as part of this test, you will need GUILE +CVS; especially the following patch: +`http://lilypond.org/vc/gub.darcs/patches/guile-1.9-gcstats.patch'. -Since GNU LilyPond currently is beta, you are advised to -also use + For checking the coverage of the test suite, do the following + ./scripts/auxiliar/build-coverage.sh + _# uncovered files, least covered first_ + ./scripts/auxiliar/coverage.py --summary out-cov/*.cc + _# consecutive uncovered lines, longest first_ + ./scripts/auxiliar/coverage.py --uncovered out-cov/*.cc +Problems +-------- +For help and questions use . Send bug reports +to . + Bugs that are not fault of LilyPond are documented here. +Bison 1.875 +........... - --enable-debugging - --enable-checking +There is a bug in bison-1.875: compilation fails with "parse error +before `goto'" in line 4922 due to a bug in bison. To fix, please +recompile bison 1.875 with the following fix + $ cd lily; make out/parser.cc + $ vi +4919 out/parser.cc + # append a semicolon to the line containing "__attribute__ ((__unused__)) + # save + $ make +Solaris +....... +Solaris7, ./configure + `./configure' needs a POSIX compliant shell. On Solaris7, `/bin/sh' +is not yet POSIX compliant, but `/bin/ksh' or bash is. Run configure +like -Other options include: + CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh ksh -c ./configure +or ---enable-shared - Make a shared library (gnu/linux, solaris (?) only ) - (TEMPORARILY OUT OF ORDER) + CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash bash -c ./configure +FreeBSD +....... ---enable-printing - Enable debugging print routines (lilypond -D option) +To use system fonts, dejaview must be installed. With the default +port, the fonts are installed in `usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu'. ---enable-optimise - Set maximum optimisation: compile with -O2 + Open the file `$LILYPONDBASE/usr/etc/fonts/local.conf' and add the +following line just after the `' line. (Adjust as necessary +for your hierarchy.) ---enable-profiling - Compile with support for profiling. + /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts ---enable-tex-prefix - Set the directory where TeX and Metafont live. +International fonts +................... ---enable-tex-dir - Set then directory TeX input is in (detected as a +On MacOS X, all fonts are installed by default. However, finding all +system fonts requires a bit of configuration; see this post +(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-03/msg00472.html) +on the `lilypond-user' mailing list. + On Linux, international fonts are installed by different means on +every distribution. We cannot list the exact commands or packages that +are necessary, as each distribution is different, and the exact package +names within each distribution changes. Here are some hints, though: - 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//. +Red Hat Fedora ---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/. + taipeifonts fonts-xorg-truetype ttfonts-ja fonts-arabic \ + ttfonts-zh_CN fonts-ja fonts-hebrew ---enable-config - Output to a different configuration file. Needed for - multi-platform builds +Debian GNU/Linux -All options are documented in the configure help The option ---enable-optimise is recommended for Real Life usage. + apt-get install emacs-intl-fonts xfonts-intl-.* \ + ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho \ + xfonts-bolkhov-75dpi xfonts-cronyx-100dpi xfonts-cronyx-75dpi -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). - - -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 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 - - - - - - -8: INSTALLING - - -If you have done a successful make, then a simple - - - - - - - make install - - - - - -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 -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. - - -EXAMPLE - - -This is what I type in my xterm: - - - 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. - - -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 gen- -erate this gif file by typing - - - - - - - make gifs - - -in the directory Documentation. - -You can make the rpm by issuing - - - - - - - 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/ - - -11: WINDOWS NT/95 - - -Separate instructions on building for W32 are avaible in the -file README-W32.yo. - - -12: AUTHORS - - -Han-Wen Nienhuys - -Jan Nieuwenhuizen - -Have fun!