Re: Lilypond running on windows

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Cristian Andres Orellana Morales <address@hidden> writes:

> I was wondering if someone could help me with the following problem:
> I downloaded yesterday the precompiled binary (setup.exe) that
> downloads and installs Lilypond with the GNU + Cygnus stuff. I don´t
> have MikTeX but I do have the TeXLive distribution (working perfectly)
> and Python 1.5.
> Well after installing "succesfully" the binaries (I also have the src
> files) I open up a Lilypond shell, and when I try "ly2dvi foo" I get
> the following

Let's take this in small steps.  You say you run 'ly2dvi foo', but also

> (I run ly2dvi on the file /input/test.ly):

so that's confusing.  Anyway, lilypond is run with the wrong input
file:

> warning: can't find file: `init.jcn1inputtest'

You should try to get lilypond to run on a simple file in the current
directory:

   cp /usr/lilypond-1.3.149.jcn1/input/test/example-1.ly .
   lilypond example-1.ly

This should produce a .tex file.  If not, your tex environment hasn't
been setup correctly.  Currently, only MiKTeX is supported.  If you
can't get your tex to run, you should try MiKTeX.

Try adding a symlink from your texmf directory to /usr/share/texmf.
I don't know where your tex's texmf tree lives, but you should do
something vaguely like:

   ln -s '//c/Program Files/Texlive/texmf /usr/share/texmf

Then, try to TeX the output:

   tex example-1.tex

If it doesn't work, you may have to setup your tex environment.  Look
at /etc/profile.d/lily-mixtex.sh, and write a lily-texlive.sh, so we
can include it in the distribution.

Jan.

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