Re: DOCS: revising LM "Score and Parts"

[Jonathan Kulp]

Carl D. Sorensen wrote:

> > But aren't the commands run from the Makefile dependent on something
> > like Cygwin?  I honestly don't know, I'm just wondering.
>
> Windows has a built in command shell, and at least from my cursory overview
> GNU Make knows how to work with it.
>
> I think that all of the lilypond specific stuff is already installed with
> lilypond.
>
> The biggest potential problem I see is that Windows uses "delete" where
> linux uses "rm".  But this is easily handled in the makefile, I think.

I'll try to run the targets that don't have rm first, just to see if 
it'll compile anything.  I think I could handle adding a conditional 
statement to do "delete" instead of "rm" depending on what the OS is.

> > > If you'd like, I can ask on user for a guinea pig.
> > >
> > > Carl
> > This is a good idea, Carl.  I wouldn't mind trying it myself. My son's
> > laptop has XP on one partition but I don't know if I'll be able to get
> > on there and try this out.  I'd be a good one to try it, though, because
> > I'm totally clueless on Windows, and if I can get it working then
> > anybody could. :)
>
> I think you'd be perfect, Jon, because
> a) You are interested
> b) You know the makefile
> c) You don't know Windows

I'm sold!  I'll try to do this tonight after the kids are asleep. 
Fiddle time is at a minimum now that summer has started and the kids are 
out of school.

Jon
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