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5 @settitle INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond
7 @comment FIXME -- this information is getting rather stale
11 @chapter Compiling and installing on Unix
15 <a name="download-source">
20 Even numbered versions are `stable' (2.0, 1.8 etc), while odd version
21 are development releases (2.1, 1.9, etc). Building LilyPond is an
22 involved process, so if possible, download a precompiled binary from
23 @uref{http://lilypond.org/,the lilypond site}.
26 @subsection Source code
28 Download source tarballs from here:
30 @item Download development releases from
31 @uref{http://lilypond.org/download/} by HTTP.
32 @item @uref{ftp://sca.uwaterloo.ca/pub/} by FTP (Canadian mirror).
36 Use Xdelta to patch tarballs, e.g. to patch
37 @file{lilypond-1.4.2.tar.gz} to @file{lilypond-1.4.3.tar.gz}, do
39 xdelta patch lilypond-1.4.2-1.4.3.xd lilypond-1.4.2.tar.gz
42 For information on packaging and CVS, see
43 @uref{http://lilypond.org/}, under ``development''.
46 @subsection Precompiled binaries
48 Check out @uref{http://lilypond.org} for up to date information on
52 @subsection Font problems
54 If you are upgrading from a previous version of LilyPond, be sure to
55 remove all old font files. These include @file{.pk} and @file{.tfm} files
56 that may be located in @file{/var/lib/texmf}, @file{/var/spool/texmf},
57 @file{/var/tmp/texmf} or @file{@var{prefix}/share/lilypond/fonts/}. A
58 script automating this has been included, see
59 @file{buildscripts/out/clean-fonts}.
66 @subsection Compilation
68 You need the following packages to compile LilyPond:
73 @item @uref{http://fontforge.sf.net/,FontForge} 20041211 or newer.
75 @item @uref{http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen/mftrace/,mftrace} (1.1.0 or
78 You will need to install some additional packages to get mftrace to
81 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,GUILE}
82 (version 1.6.5 or newer). If you are installing a binary packages,
83 you may need to install guile-devel or guile-dev or libguile-dev too.
85 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/,Flex} (version 2.5.4a or newer).
87 WARNING: plain Flex 2.5.4(a) generates invalid C++ code. GCC 3.x
88 chokes on this. If you wish to use GCC 3.x, make sure that your
89 distribution supports g++ 3.x and flex. For workarounds, see
90 lexer-gcc-3.1.sh in the source directory.
94 @TeX{} is used as an output backend.
96 Also, @TeX{}'s libkpathsea is used to find the fonts (@file{.mf},
97 @file{.afm}, @file{.tfm}). Make sure you have tetex 1.0 or newer
98 (1.0.6 is known to work). If you are installing binary packages, you
99 may need to install tetex-devel, tetex-dev or libkpathsea-dev too.
101 @item @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/,Texinfo} (version 4.7 or newer).
103 @item kpathsea, a library for searching (@TeX{}) files.
106 @uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/, The GNU c++ compiler} (version 3.1 or
107 newer). EGCS and 2.x are known to cause crashes.
109 @item @uref{http://www.python.org,Python} (version 2.1 or newer).
111 @item @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/,GNU Make} (version 3.78 or newer).
113 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/,Bison} (version 1.29 or
114 newer, but not 1.50 or 1.75).
116 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html,gettext}.
119 @subsection Running requirements
121 GNU LilyPond does use a lot of resources. For operation you need the
126 @item @uref{http://www.freetype.org/,Freetype} (version 2)
127 @item @uref{http://www.pango.org/,Pango} (version 1.6 or newer).
128 @item @uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,GUILE}
129 (version 1.6.5 or newer).
130 @item @uref{http://www.python.org,Python} (version 2.1 or newer).
132 @item @uref{http://www.ghostscript.com,Ghostscript} (version 8.15 or
136 You have to help @TeX{} and MetaFont find LilyPond support
137 files. After compiling, scripts to do this can be found in
138 @file{buildscripts/out/lilypond-profile} and
139 @file{buildscripts/out/lilypond-login}.
141 @subsection Building documentation
143 You can view the documentation online at
144 @uref{http://lilypond.org/doc/}, but you can also build it
145 locally. This process requires a successful compile of lilypond. The
146 documentation is built by issuing:
151 Building the website requires some additional tools and packages:
154 @item @uref{http://lilypond.org/download/fonts,ec-fonts-mftraced}
155 @item The @uref{http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/,netpbm utilities}
159 The HTML files can be installed into the standard documentation path
163 make out=www web-install
167 @section Building LilyPond
169 To install GNU LilyPond, type
171 gunzip -c lilypond-x.y.z | tar xf -
173 ./configure # run with --help to see appropriate options
176 sh buildscripts/clean-fonts.sh
179 The most time-consuming part of compiling LilyPond is tracing the
180 Type1 fonts. You can shortcut this operation by issuing
181 one of the following commands:
184 make -C mf get-pfa # requires rpm2cpio
185 make -C mf get-debian-pfa # may not be up to date
188 If you are doing an upgrade, you should remove all @file{feta}
189 @code{.pk} and @code{.tfm} files. A script has been provided to do the
190 work for you, see @file{buildscripts/out/clean-fonts}.
192 If you are not root, you should choose a @code{--prefix} argument that
193 points into your home directory, e.g.:
195 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
198 In this case, you have to insert the contents of
199 @code{buildscripts/out/lilypond-login} or
200 @code{buildscripts/out/lilypond-profile} into your start up scripts by
205 @subsection Configuring for multiple platforms
207 If you want to build multiple versions of LilyPond with different
208 configuration settings, you can use the @code{--enable-config=CONF}
209 option of configure. You should use @samp{make conf=CONF} to generate
210 the output in @file{out-CONF}. Example: Suppose I want to build with
211 and without profiling. Then I'd use the following for the normal
215 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr/ --enable-checking
220 and for the profiling version, I specify a different configuration:
223 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr/ --enable-profiling --enable-config=prof --disable-checking
225 make conf=prof install
232 An Emacs mode for entering music and running LilyPond is contained in
233 the source archive in the @file{elisp} directory. Do @command{make
234 install} to install it to @var{elispdir}. The file @file{lilypond-init.el}
235 should be placed to @var{load-path}@file{/site-start.d/} or appended
236 to your @file{~/.emacs} or @file{~/.emacs.el}.
238 As a user, you may want add your source path (e.g. @file{~/site-lisp/}) to
239 your @var{load-path} by appending the following line (as modified) to your
241 @c any reason we do not advise: (push "~/site-lisp" load-path)
244 (setq load-path (append (list (expand-file-name "~/site-lisp")) load-path))
251 A Vim mode for entering music and running LilyPond is contained in the
252 source archive in @code{$VIM} directory. For version 6.2 and newer,
253 Vim-mode works directly after installing LilyPond. Otherwise,
254 complete the following two steps.
256 For earlier versions (and if @code{$VIM} environment variable does not
257 fall-back to @file{/usr/local/share/vim}, see @code{:version} in vim),
258 the LilyPond file type is detected if your file @file{~/.vim/filetype.vim} @c
259 has the following content:
261 if exists("did_load_filetypes")
264 augroup filetypedetect
265 au! BufNewFile,BufRead *.ly setf lilypond
268 If Vim has been (pre-)installed to @file{/usr/...} (or any other place)
269 instead of @file{/usr/local/...}, then @file{/usr/local/share/vim} may not
270 be specified in your @code{$VIMRUNTIME} environment variable and you have to
271 include this path explicitly by appending the following line to your
274 set runtimepath+=/usr/local/share/vim/
279 For help and questions use @email{lilypond-user@@gnu.org}. Send bug
280 reports to @email{bug-lilypond@@gnu.org}.
282 Bugs that are not fault of LilyPond are documented here.
284 @subsection Bison 1.875
286 There is a bug in bison-1.875: compilation fails with "parse error
287 before `goto'" in line 4922 due to a bug in bison. To fix, either
288 recompile bison 1.875 with the following fix:
291 $ cd lily; make out/parser.cc
292 $ vi +4919 out/parser.cc
293 # append a semicolon to the line containing "__attribute__ ((__unused__))
298 @subsection Linking to kpathsea
300 If kpathsea and the corresponding header files are installed in some
301 directory where GCC does not search by default, for example in
302 @file{/usr/local/lib/} and @file{/usr/local/include/} respectively,
303 you have to explicitly tell configure where to find it. To do this:
306 @item @code{rm config.cache}
307 @item @code{export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/share/texmf/lib}
308 @item @code{export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/share/texmf/include}
309 @item @code{./configure}
311 Once configure has found them, the paths are stored in
312 @file{config.make} and will be used even if you don't have the
313 environment variables set during make.
316 @unnumberedsubsec Gcc-3.0.4
318 Gcc 3.0.4 is flaky; upgrade GCC.
320 @unnumberedsubsec Flex-2.5.4a and gcc-3.x
322 Flex 2.5.4a does not produce g++-3.1.1 compliant C++ code. To compile
323 LilyPond with gcc-3.1.1 you may do
326 CONF=gcc-3.1 ./lexer-gcc-3.1.sh
327 CPPFLAGS=-I$(pwd)/lily/out-gcc-3.1 CC=gcc-3.1 CXX=g++-3.1 \
328 ./configure --enable-config=gcc-3.1
329 CONF=gcc-3.1 ./lexer-gcc-3.1.sh
334 @unnumberedsubsec OpenBSD
338 Refer to the section ``Linking to kpathsea'': GCC on OpenBSD doesn't
339 set include paths for kpathsea.
342 @unnumberedsubsec NetBSD
345 @item The flex precompiled in NetBSD-1.4.2 is broken.
346 Upgrade to flex-2.5.4a.
349 @unnumberedsubsec Solaris
352 @item Solaris7, ./configure
354 @file{./configure} needs a POSIX compliant shell. On Solaris7,
355 @file{/bin/sh} is not yet POSIX compliant, but @file{/bin/ksh} or bash
356 is. Run configure like:
358 CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/ksh ksh -c ./configure
362 CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash bash -c ./configure