Re: Starting error - HeLP!!

[Mats Bengtsson]

I'm forwarding your answer to the mailing list, since I'm
not an expert in the Windows version.

Anyway. If you downloaded using the new Lilypond installer,
you should be able to double click on the "GNU Lilypond" icon 
(or Start menu->Cygnus Solutions->GNU Lilypond Shell) and
get a Cygwin prompt (similar to the DOS prompt). Try to 
run the command
>> ls -l /bin/cygwin1.dll
on my mashine, the response is
-rwxr-xr-x   1 matsb    544  629760 Jan 31 15:09  /bin/cygwin1.dll
The corresponding Windows file path is 
c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll

If this is OK, you could go on and try
>> lilypond -v
and so on, according to the instructions on the Lilypond
web page.
Otherwise, the first step would be to run the installation
program once again (don't worry, it won't spend time downloading
new copies of the things that have already been installed on 
your machine).

   /Mats

> As far as I can see, the version is lilypond 1.4.2-1 from the path you 
> recommended:
> http:/www.lilypond.org/development/Documentation/windows/out-www/installing.html
> What should I do now?
> Thanks 
> Christof
> 
> On Monday, June 04, 2001 5:50 PM, Mats Bengtsson [SMTP:address@hidden wrote:
> | > Hi there.
> | > I have a problem
> | > After downloading and setting up Lilypond (on Windows 95) an error
> | > occurred, stating that "a required .DLL file, Cygwin1.DLL, was not
> | > found".  Any help on how/where I could find this file.
> | > Thanks
> | > Christof Spies
> | 
> | 
> | Could you please specify what version of Lilypond you have 
> | downloaded and where you found it, there are a number of
> | different versions and distribution forms available. 
> | 
> | The recommended version is the new stable version, 1.4.x, 
> | see 
> | 
> http://www.lilypond.org/development/Documentation/windows/out-www/installing.html
> | 
> | This distribution will give you a UNIX-like environment (Cygwin)
> | where you can run the Lilypond commands. 
> | 
> |    /Mats
> | 
>