Re: Lilypond on Win. Was: need help

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> writes:

> I tried the latest Windows installation of Lilypond
> (1.4.12.jcn5-1) yesterday

Thanks.

>and noticed the following problems:
>
> - The lilypond package was not selected by default, 
>   in the "Select packages to install" page of the 
>   installation, I had to manually click on "View"
>   and click on the circular arrows on the Lilypond
>   line to select the package.

Could you see what happens if you uninstall lilypond, and edit
setup.ini in your setup.exe dir, so that lilypond is in the category
'misc' (or maybe 'base'); and see if lilypond gets installed then?

> - During the installation, I got lots of complaints 
>   about missing library libintl1.dll.

Yes.  I've asked around and edited the wiki, but I cannot seem to find
which package needs this dll.  On my machine, it works without
installing libintl1.

Every package in setup.ini lists a number of dependecies.  It seems
one of these packages lacks a 'requires:' on libintl1.dll.

I could just add that requirement to lilypond, but that seems silly.
Maybe even a bugreport should be sent to address@hidden, once we
know what the offending package is.

> The solution
>   was simply to rerun setup.exe again and select
>   also this package manually, just as above.
>   See also the following question in the Cygwin FAQ:
>   http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC32

I don't understand the emails that are listed there.  It seems to me
that there's a bug in one of the package requirements?

> Jan, when you build a 1.4.13 version for Windows, I recommend
> to include my recent patch for the font installation and
> to make sure that the Type1 fonts are included in the
> package. It will probably increase the size of the .tar.gz
> file by some MB but is very useful for everybody who wants
> to prepare PDF files.

Sure, I'll build a windows version from latest CVS, just waiting a bit
for these dll problems to be solved, and maybe wait for 1.3.11 too,
which should show tremendous speedups.

Jan.

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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