Re: Lilypond for Windows 2.5.28 - Guile error

[Thomas Scharkowski]

> Thomas Scharkowski writes:
> 
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I have asked about a week ago:
> > Typing "guile" at cmd gives the following:
> >
> > ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
> > ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
> 
> What flavour of Windows? 

XP SP1

> > This is my guile.bat:
> >
> > @echo off
> > set GUILE_LOAD_PATH=C:\Programme\LilyPond\usr\share\guile\1.7
> > "C:\Programme\LilyPond\usr\bin\guile.exe" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
> >
> > The files are there.
> > What am I missing?
> 
> Try
> 
>     set "GUILE_LOAD_PATH=C:\Programme\LilyPond\usr\share\guile\1.7"
> 
> Does that help?  Make sure that you are not using Cygwin's guile.exe,
> that won't work.
This did not help. 
I also tried 

        set GUILE_LOAD_PATH="C:\Programme\LilyPond\usr\share\guile\1.7"

How can I find out if I am using Cywin's guile.exe?
I did not find a "guile.exe" file in my Cygwin installation.
LilyPond 2.4.6 works, though.

> > I got convert-ly working now by installing python24
> > and copying "convert-ly" to "convert-ly.py". Shouldn't this be
> > unnecessary?
> 
> Great.  Yes, ideally that should not be necessary.  Maybe renaming the
> scripts is a good start.  How do you operate convert-ly.py? 

>From cmd I type: convert-ly.py -e test.ly
Works!

Thomas