Re: Lilypond not generating PDF

[Aaron Hill]

On 2022-07-04 5:49 pm, Aaron Hill wrote:
> On 2022-07-04 5:07 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> > I'm sorry, I don't understand this. Dragging test.ly on the desktop to
> > the LilyPond icon on the desktop fails to produce the PDF output. Both
> > on Windows 10 and 11.
>
> That is a different issue than the UAC drag-and-drop limitation that
> was mentioned.  Elevated permissions is almost certainly a red
> herring, and something bigger is likely being masked.
>
> I will take a look and see what is going on.  Just give me some time,
> as I will need to set up a test environment first.

As expected, elevation is masking an underlying issue.

The desktop shortcut is wrong.  It specifies a start directory of 
"C:\Users\Public\Desktop" which is coincidently the location in which 
the shortcut is created.  The public desktop is a special directory 
transparently replicated to all individual user desktops.  By design, it 
does not offer write permission to users.

LilyPond is failing to compile because it attempts to create a temporary 
file at that location.  Open question: Why is LilyPond not using the 
%TEMP% directory for such things?

Leaving the start directory field blank within the shortcut appears to 
fix things.


-- Aaron Hill