Re: Building on CygWin

[Mats Bengtsson]

> Just thought I'd let you know...
> 
> lilypond-1.5.55 builds succesfully on CygWin with two only two workarounds
> required, neither of which I am competent to fix myself.

Great news anyway!

> 3. The resultant configuration doesn't include linkages for python (used by
> python/midi.lo). To work around this problem, open config.make and edit the
> USR_LDFLAGS to read
> 
>   USER_LDFLAGS =   -L/usr/lib -lguile
> /bin/cygwin1.dll -lm -L/usr/lib/python2.2/config/ -lpython2.2.dll

That's simple to solve, just read the FAQ at the bottom
of http://lilypond.org/wiki/?LilyPondInstall

> 4. Run
>      $ make all 2>&1 | tee log.make
> 
> This fails somewhere in documentation tree build scripts, but will
> successfully build everything needed to run lily.

That's a problem with Python 2.2, it's the same on UNIX.

> 5. The install make procedure can't deal with .exe files. Cygwin does
> bizarre things with them. lilypond-1.5.55/stepmake/bin/install-sh fails when
> trying to chmod a temporary file of the form  #input.nnnn#.exe (presumably
> because the shell is smart enough to ignore .exe extensions, but chmod is
> not. To work around this problem, temporarily rename lily/out/lilypond.exe
> to just plain lily/out/lilypond (we'll rename it back again in step 7).

This could probably be solved fairly easily in the 
make files.

   /Mats