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2 @setfilename installing.info
3 @settitle LilyPond on Windows
8 @chapter WINDOWS - Installing GNU LilyPond on Windows
10 This document explains how to install the binary release for windows
11 on a Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT or 2000 machine.
13 This release is a free extra service of the developers to assist windows
14 users. Please remember that we (the developers) rather dislike windows,
15 and none of us use it. Don't complain to us that installing LilyPond is
16 too difficult; rather, if you know something about your Windows, send us
17 code that works better (see @uref{compiling.html,compiling}).
19 @section Windows binary setup
21 Apart from LilyPond itself, you need Cygwin, GUILE, Python, and a TeX
22 installation, but all this software be installed by running setup.exe:
27 @c let's do http, so that people read the README
28 @uref{http://www.lilypond.org/gnu-windows/setup.exe, setup.exe}
31 This will install the minimal set of cygwin tools needed to run
32 LilyPond. Make sure to install in the default place, @file{c:/cygwin},
33 and install everything.
35 As of version 1.3.150, you also have the option to install MiKTeX,
36 Python and GSView from this installer, which is recommended. If you
37 choose to install these by hand (see below), make sure to install them
38 @strong{before} you install LilyPond, otherwise your LilyPond setup will
41 If you already have cygwin installed, don't worry: nothing will be
42 installed twice. To expand on this minimal set, click
43 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.exe,here}, or visit a
44 Cygwin @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.html,mirror site}.
48 @section Windows running setup
50 If you're lucky, after running @file{setup.exe} you're all set up.
52 Open a LilyPond shell (or any bash shell), and type
60 If you don't see something similar to
64 Usage: lilypond [OPTION]... [FILE]...
66 Typeset music and or play MIDI from FILE
68 LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music
69 using a high level description file as input. LilyPond is part of
78 you should try adding @file{/usr/lilypond-x.y.z/bin} to your @var{PATH},
83 PATH=/usr/lilypond-1.4.2/bin:$PATH
92 For problems and solutions see
93 @uref{http://lilypond.org/wiki/?TroubleshootingWindows,Troubleshooting
96 @subsection Additional software
98 LilyPond needs a number of software packages to be really useful. These
99 are included in the binary setup program (see above).
101 If you choose to install this additional software yourself, make sure
102 you install LilyPond last, otherwise the LilyPond setup will be broken.
103 Also note that this means that you will probably need to fix some PATH
104 and TEX environment variables yourself. If you think you can handle
105 that, you may do so, but don't complain if it doesn't work.
107 These software packages are included in the LilyPond installation:
110 @item A full TeX installation.
112 Currently, only MikTeX is supported. Download and install
113 @uref{http://downloads.sourceforge.net/miktex/miktex-2.0-lvl-1.zip,MikTeX},
114 or visit @uref{http://www.miktex.org,www.miktex.org}.
115 @c See @file{/usr/doc/cygwin/tetex-beta-20001218.README} for details.
119 You can use GSView-2.6. This old package has two advantages. It has
120 gsview and ghostscript bundeled, and it doesn't popup @emph{Register
121 Now|Cancel} windows all the time. It doesn't work together with Yap to
122 display PostScript specials.
124 Click @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum/gsv26w32.exe,here} to
125 install GSView-2.6 (GhostView for Windows), or visit
126 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum,ftp.cs.wisc.edu}.
128 You can also use the newer versions GSView-3.6 and GhostScript-6.50 If
129 you install both these packages, Yap will display PostScript specials.
130 You get annoying @emph{Register Now|Cancel} popups, though.
132 Click @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum/gsv36w32.exe,here} for
134 Click @uref{ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs650/gs650w32.exe
135 ,here} for GhostScript.
136 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum,ftp.cs.wisc.edu}.
138 @uref{http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/,Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview site}.
141 Click @uref{http://www.python.org/ftp/python/win32/py152.exe,here} to
142 install Python-1.5.2, or visit
143 @uref{http://www.python.org,www.python.org}.
145 We have not tried using newer versions than 1.5.2.
154 * emacs-mode installation, figure out and describe proper
155 emacs-on-cygwin setup.
166 ERROR: Wrong type to apply: ("/usr/share/guile/site" /usr/share/guile/1.4.1")
172 Let's take this step by step.
174 It should not be critical which MikTeX version you use.
175 Let's first verify that your MikTeX works as it should.
176 Open a DOS window. Run the commands
178 Should produce some lines of output
180 Should display a three page document.
182 Next step; verify that the geometry package is in place.
183 Save the attached file to the directory where you run
184 your DOS window. Run the commands
185 >> latex geometrytest
187 This one you should get a single page document with some text