Re: LilyPond build for windows?

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Samstag, den 20.06.2020, 20:25 +0200 schrieb Han-Wen Nienhuys:
> What is the status of our lilypond binary on windows?
> 
> The GUB based binary used to include a hacked-together Python
> interpreter, which -due to being cross-compiled- had some serious
> limitations. Is this still the binary we recommend to use ?

Starting from 2.21.0, GUB uses the embeddable package for Python:
https://docs.python.org/3.8/using/windows.html#the-embeddable-package
This is official, so no "limitations" from our side.

The most severe limitation for Windows is that it's still 32-bit, so it
crashes when compiling really large scores. I tried to get it to 64-
bit, but Guile 1.8 simply doesn't work and crashes somewhere in the GC.
This is no problem with Guile 2.2, see also my thread a few months back
about my approach of native builds using few shell scripts. I've
verified that this is able to compile larger scores that our official
binaries fail on right now.

Jonas

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