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2 @setfilename installing.info
3 @settitle LilyPond on Windows
8 @chapter WINDOWS - Installing GNU LilyPond on Windows
10 This document explains how to install the binary release for windows
11 on a Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT or 2000 machine.
13 This release is a free extra service of the developers to assist windows
14 users. Please remember that we (the developers) rather dislike windows,
15 and none of us use it. Don't complain to us that installing LilyPond is
16 too difficult; rather, if you know something about your Windows, send us
17 code that works better (see @uref{compiling.html,compiling}).
19 @section Windows binary setup
21 Apart from LilyPond itself, you need Cygwin, GUILE, Python, and a TeX
22 installation, but all this software be installed by running setup.exe:
27 @c let's do http, so that people read the README
28 @uref{http://www.lilypond.org/gnu-windows/setup.exe, setup.exe}
31 This will install the minimal set of cygwin tools needed to run
34 As of version 1.3.150, you also have the option to install MiKTeX,
35 Python and GSView from this installer, which is recommended. If you
36 choose to install these by hand (see below), make sure to install them
37 @strong{before} you install LilyPond, otherwise your LilyPond setup will
40 If you already have cygwin installed, don't worry: nothing will be
41 installed twice. To expand on this minimal set, click
42 @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/setup.exe,here}, or visit a
43 Cygwin @uref{http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.html,mirror site}.
47 @section Windows running setup
49 If you're lucky, after running @file{setup.exe} you're all set up.
51 Open a LilyPond shell (or any bash shell), and type
56 If you don't see something similar to
58 Usage: lilypond [OPTION]... [FILE]...
60 Typeset music and or play MIDI from FILE
62 LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music
63 using a high level description file as input. LilyPond is part of
71 you should try adding @file{/usr/lilypond-x.y.z/bin} to your @var{PATH},
74 PATH=/usr/lilypond-1.3.147/bin:$PATH
81 @subsection Additional software
83 LilyPond needs a number of software packages to be really useful. These
84 are included in the binary setup program (see above).
86 If you choose to install this additional software yourself, make sure
87 you install LilyPond last, otherwise the LilyPond setup will be broken.
88 Also note that this means that you will probably need to fix some PATH
89 and TEX environment variables yourself. If you think you can handle
90 that, you may do so, but don't complain if it doesn't work.
92 These software packages are included in the LilyPond installation:
95 @item A full TeX installation.
97 Currently, only MikTeX is supported. Download and install
98 @uref{http://downloads.sourceforge.net/miktex/miktex-2.0-lvl-1.zip,MikTeX},
99 or visit @uref{http://www.miktex.org,www.miktex.org}.
100 @c See @file{/usr/doc/cygwin/tetex-beta-20001218.README} for details.
104 You can use GSView-2.6. This old package has two advantages. It has
105 gsview and ghostscript bundeled, and it doesn't popup @emph{Register
106 Now|Cancel} windows all the time. It doesn't work together with Yap to
107 display PostScript specials.
109 Click @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum/gsv26w32.exe,here} to
110 install GSView-2.6 (GhostView for Windows), or visit
111 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum,ftp.cs.wisc.edu}.
113 You can also use the newer versions GSView-3.6 and GhostScript-6.50 If
114 you install both these packages, Yap will display PostScript specials.
115 You get annoying @emph{Register Now|Cancel} popups, though.
117 Click @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum/gsv36w32.exe,here} for
119 Click @uref{ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs650/gs650w32.exe
120 ,here} for GhostScript.
121 @uref{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/ghostgum,ftp.cs.wisc.edu}.
123 @uref{http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/,Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview site}.
126 Click @uref{http://www.python.org/ftp/python/win32/py152.exe,here} to
127 install Python-1.5.2, or visit
128 @uref{http://www.python.org,www.python.org}.
130 We have not tried using newer versions than 1.5.2.
139 * emacs-mode installation, figure out and describe proper
140 emacs-on-cygwin setup.
142 * talk about /etc/profile.d/lilypond-profile.sh
144 * GUILE errors, simple guile test
146 * (La)TEX errors, simple tex test
156 ERROR: Wrong type to apply: ("/usr/share/guile/site" /usr/share/guile/1.4.1")
162 Let's take this step by step.
164 It should not be critical which MikTeX version you use.
165 Let's first verify that your MikTeX works as it should.
166 Open a DOS window. Run the commands
168 Should produce some lines of output
170 Should display a three page document.
172 Next step; verify that the geometry package is in place.
173 Save the attached file to the directory where you run
174 your DOS window. Run the commands
175 >> latex geometrytest
177 This one you should get a single page document with some text