Re: lilypond stalls on windows every time

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

dave k wrote:
> 2.8.0 on Windows XP SP2 
>         
> Running Lilypond always hangs before it starts compiling, every 
> single time. I ran --verbose and this is where it stalls: 
>         
> Initializing FontConfig...
> Rebuilding FontConfig cache C:\Documents and Settings\do/.fonts.cache-1.
> this may take a while...
> adding font directory:
> C:/Programs/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond//current/fonts/otf/
> adding font directory:
> C:/Programs/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond//current/fonts/type1/
> Building font database.
>
> It does this every single time. When I check C:\Documents and 
> Settings\user\, I have a blank .fonts.cache-1 file. When I delete it and run
> Lilypond it comes back, but it is always a blank file. And Lilypond always 
> takes 30 seconds creating this file before compiling. 
>         
> This is very very annoying. 

Yes, there is a problem with per-user fontconfig caches on windows. We 
decided not to fix it, since for a small font directory, it doesn't have 
a big impact.

Here is a workaround:

 - run the following in the CMD command shell

   cd C:\WINDOWS
   attrib -S -R FONTS
   cd FONTS
   "C:\Program files\LilyPond\usr\bin\fc-cache.exe" .
   cd ..
   attrib +S +R FONTS

this procedure should leave a 200k fonts.cache-1 file in the Fonts 
subdirectory.

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