Re: lilypond 2.21

[David Kastrup]

Gianmaria Lari <address@hidden> writes:

> Are there any istructions available to try to compile lilypond 2.21 on
> windows?

We do crosscompilation with GUB <http://www.lilypond.org/gub> for our
releases.  While in theory all the necessary components would be
available separately for Windows, maintaining a useful native
compilation setup is prohibitively troublesome due to a number of
external dependencies and tools.  Git does maintain a Windows port.  It
has problems of its own, usually trails behind the main releases
considerably and its maintainer is not delighted with the trouble it
causes.

So compiling _on_ Windows is likely possible but there is a reason
nobody does it.

-- 
David Kastrup