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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
69 Enter the following into the file
72 \score @{ \notes @{ c4 ( ) c4 @} @}
75 Close the file and save it. Run the following command a few times (at
76 least three times) until it says @code{PS output to `foo.ps', DVI output
83 You can now view the file using the following command
90 If this works, then you can head to the
91 @uref{../../user/out-www/lilypond/Tutorial.html,Tutorial} to start using
96 @section Removing LilyPond
98 Start @file{setup.exe}, click Next, select "Install from Local
99 Directory". Then click next until you reach "Select packages to
100 install". Click "View". Now, for every package, click on the recycle
101 icon until it says "Uninstall". Then, click Next.
103 (If you find this too tedious, you can also simply remove
104 @file{c:/cygwin}. This also removes the @file{/home/} directories under
105 cygwin (i.e. @file{C:\CYGWIN\HOME}, so make sure that you bring
106 important files in safety first.)
108 @section Troubleshooting
110 For problems and solutions see
111 @uref{http://lilypond.org/wiki?TroubleshootingWindows,Troubleshooting
117 We can only help you with a problem if you give a full, detailed
118 bugreport. A bugreport includes
121 @item A @emph{precise} description of the problem.
122 @item A full description of your platform (machine type, operating
124 @item All version numbers of relevant software you run. Specifically, we
125 want to see the output of the following commands:
132 @item If ly2dvi fails, then please run it as follows and include the
135 ly2dvi --verbose MY-FILE
139 You can also check out
140 @uref{http://lilypond.org/wiki/?TroubleshootingWindows} for more
141 instructions on how to make a bug report.
144 @subsection Additional software
146 LilyPond needs a number of software packages to be really useful. These
147 are included in the binary setup program (see above).
149 If you choose to install this additional software yourself, make sure
150 you install LilyPond last, otherwise the LilyPond setup will be broken.
151 Also note that this means that you will probably need to fix some PATH
152 and TEX environment variables yourself. If you think you can handle
153 that, you may do so, but don't complain if it doesn't work.
155 These software packages are included in the LilyPond installation:
158 @item A full TeX installation.
160 As of LilyPond versions 1.4.11 (and 1.5.29), only Cygwin's teTeX
161 installation is supported (packages tetex-beta and texmf-base). It is
162 part of Cygwin and much more robust for use with LilyPond than MiKTeX.
163 See @file{/usr/doc/Cygwin/tetex-beta-20001218.README} and
164 @file{/usr/doc/Cygwin/texmf-20000804-2.README} for details.
168 You can use GSView-2.6. This old package has two advantages. It has
169 gsview and ghostscript bundeled, and it doesn't popup @emph{Register
170 Now|Cancel} windows all the time. It doesn't work together with Yap to
171 display PostScript specials.
173 Click @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum/gsv26w32.exe,here} to
174 install GSView-2.6 (GhostView for Windows), or visit
175 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum,ftp.cs.wisc.edu}.
177 You can also use the newer versions GSView-3.6 and GhostScript-6.50 If
178 you install both these packages, Yap will display PostScript specials.
179 You get annoying @emph{Register Now|Cancel} popups, though.
181 Click @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum/gsv36w32.exe,here} for
183 Click @uref{ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs650/gs650w32.exe
184 ,here} for GhostScript.
185 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum,ftp.cs.wisc.edu}.
187 @uref{http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/,Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview site}.
193 * emacs-mode installation, figure out and describe proper
194 emacs-on-cygwin setup.
202 ERROR: Wrong type to apply: ("/usr/share/guile/site" /usr/share/guile/1.4.1")
208 Let's take this step by step.
210 It should not be critical which MikTeX version you use.
211 Let's first verify that your MikTeX works as it should.
212 Open a DOS window. Run the commands
214 Should produce some lines of output
216 Should display a three page document.
218 Next step; verify that the geometry package is in place.
219 Save the attached file to the directory where you run
220 your DOS window. Run the commands
221 >> latex geometrytest
223 This one you should get a single page document with some text
232 If you want to install more of cygwnTo expand on this minimal set,
233 @section If you already have MikTeX, GSView or
235 If you already have cygwin installed, don't worry: nothing will be
236 installed twice. To expand on this minimal set, click
237 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.exe,here}, or visit a
238 Cygwin @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.html,mirror site}.
241 This will install the minimal set of cygwin tools needed to run
242 LilyPond. Make sure to install in the default place, @file{c:/cygwin},
243 and install everything.