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3 @settitle LilyPond on Windows
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12 @chapter WINDOWS - Installing GNU LilyPond on Windows
14 This document explains how to install the binary release for windows on
15 a Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT or 2000 machine. Please follow the
16 instructions carefully. If it doesn't work for you, please send a
17 bugreport, following the guidelines in the section on bugreports below.
20 @section Windows binary setup
22 If you run Windows NT, 2000 or XP, please become administrator first
23 (currently, installing as an ordinary user will not work). Download and
24 run @uref{http://www.lilypond.org/gnu-windows/setup.exe, setup.exe}.
25 You will be asked some questions. If you are unsure just click "Next".
26 Do not change the default install directory @file{c:/cygwin}.
28 This installs LilyPond, and Cygwin, GUILE, Python, teTeX (MikTeX is not
29 supported) and GSView. If you already have some of that software under
30 @file{c:/cygwin}, then don't worry: nothing will be installed twice.
32 If you want to install any of this software by hand, do this
33 @strong{before} you run @file{setup.exe}, otherwise your LilyPond setup
36 @section Testing LilyPond
38 Open a LilyPond shell (To open a a lilypond shell, click the "GNU
39 LilyPond" icon), and type
47 You should see something similar to
51 Usage: lilypond [OPTION]... [FILE]...
53 Typeset music and or play MIDI from FILE
55 LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music
56 using a high level description file as input. LilyPond is part of
65 Then, prepare a file called @file{foo.ly}, by issuing
71 Enter the following into the file
75 \score @{ \notes @{ c4 ( ) c4 @} @}
79 Close the file and save it. Run the following command a few times (at
80 least three times) until it says @code{PS output to `foo.ps', DVI output
89 You can now view the file using the following command
98 If this works, then you can head to the
99 @uref{../../user/out-www/lilypond/Tutorial.html,Tutorial} to start using
104 @section Removing LilyPond
106 Start @file{setup.exe}, click Next, select "Install from Local
107 Directory". Then click next until you reach "Select packages to
108 install". Click "View". Now, for every package, click on the recycle
109 icon until it says "Uninstall". Then, click Next.
111 (If you find this too tedious, you can also simply remove
112 @file{c:/cygwin}. This also removes the @file{/home/} directories under
113 cygwin (i.e. @file{C:\CYGWIN\HOME}, so make sure that you bring
114 important files in safety first.)
116 @section Troubleshooting
118 For problems and solutions see
119 @uref{http://lilypond.org/wiki?TroubleshootingWindows,Troubleshooting
125 We can only help you with a problem if you give a full, detailed
126 bugreport. A bugreport includes
129 @item A @emph{precise} description of the problem.
130 @item A full description of your platform (machine type, operating
132 @item All version numbers of relevant software you run. Specifically, we
133 want to see the output of the following commands:
142 @item If ly2dvi fails, then please run it as follows and include the
146 ly2dvi --verbose MY-FILE
151 You can also check out
152 @uref{http://lilypond.org/wiki/?TroubleshootingWindows} for more
153 instructions on how to make a bug report.
156 @subsection Additional software
158 LilyPond needs a number of software packages to be really useful. These
159 are included in the binary setup program (see above).
161 If you choose to install this additional software yourself, make sure
162 you install LilyPond last, otherwise the LilyPond setup will be broken.
163 Also note that this means that you will probably need to fix some PATH
164 and TEX environment variables yourself. If you think you can handle
165 that, you may do so, but don't complain if it doesn't work.
167 These software packages are included in the LilyPond installation:
170 @item A full TeX installation.
172 As of LilyPond versions 1.4.11 (and 1.5.29), only Cygwin's teTeX
173 installation is supported (packages tetex-beta and texmf-base). It is
174 part of Cygwin and much more robust for use with LilyPond than MiKTeX.
175 See @file{/usr/doc/Cygwin/tetex-beta-20001218.README} and
176 @file{/usr/doc/Cygwin/texmf-20000804-2.README} for details.
180 You can use GSView-2.6. This old package has two advantages. It has
181 gsview and ghostscript bundeled, and it doesn't popup @emph{Register
182 Now|Cancel} windows all the time. It doesn't work together with Yap to
183 display PostScript specials.
185 Click @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum/gsv26w32.exe,here} to
186 install GSView-2.6 (GhostView for Windows), or visit
187 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum,ftp.cs.wisc.edu}.
189 You can also use the newer versions GSView-3.6 and GhostScript-6.50 If
190 you install both these packages, Yap will display PostScript specials.
191 You get annoying @emph{Register Now|Cancel} popups, though.
193 Click @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum/gsv36w32.exe,here} for
195 Click @uref{ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs650/gs650w32.exe
196 ,here} for GhostScript.
197 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum,ftp.cs.wisc.edu}.
199 @uref{http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/,Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview site}.
205 * emacs-mode installation, figure out and describe proper
206 emacs-on-cygwin setup.
214 ERROR: Wrong type to apply: ("/usr/share/guile/site" /usr/share/guile/1.4.1")
220 Let's take this step by step.
222 It should not be critical which MikTeX version you use.
223 Let's first verify that your MikTeX works as it should.
224 Open a DOS window. Run the commands
226 Should produce some lines of output
228 Should display a three page document.
230 Next step; verify that the geometry package is in place.
231 Save the attached file to the directory where you run
232 your DOS window. Run the commands
233 >> latex geometrytest
235 This one you should get a single page document with some text
244 If you want to install more of cygwnTo expand on this minimal set,
245 @section If you already have MikTeX, GSView or
247 If you already have cygwin installed, don't worry: nothing will be
248 installed twice. To expand on this minimal set, click
249 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.exe,here}, or visit a
250 Cygwin @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.html,mirror site}.
253 This will install the minimal set of cygwin tools needed to run
254 LilyPond. Make sure to install in the default place, @file{c:/cygwin},
255 and install everything.