Re: development on windows

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 6/11/09 4:50 PM, "Jonathan Kulp" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
>>>> 
>>> 
>> The goal of this iso to make it usable on a virtualization tool. The
>> open source Sun VirtualBox can for example mount this as the virtual
>> hard disk.
>>> Once it's ready maybe I can create a torrent?  I've never done that
>>> before but it's probably the best way to transfer it.  It'll take a
>>> while. 
>> I can also give you FTP access to one of the servers run by me where you
>> could upload it. That would be the easiest.
>> 
> 
> Success!  Ok here's what I have:

Congratulations!

> 
> After making the .iso I tested it in Sun VirtualBox OSE and
> everything worked perfectly. Here are the exact steps I followed
> (see if you think they're noob-friendly enough):
> 
> 1. Install the OS in VirtualBox, then restart the virtual machine
>   and log in
> 2. open a terminal
> 3. open firefox
> 4. Get lilypond source code from git by copying the terminal
> commands in CG (have to use Ctrl+Shift+V to paste into terminal)

Why not make a shell script that gets the lilypond source code, and make
that part of your distribution?

> 5. run ./autogen.sh, then "make all" and "sudo make install"
> 6. cd Documentation/user
> 7. make doc
> 8. use Evince to view pdf output
> 
> It took a while for everything to build since I only allocated 384
> Mb of RAM to the VM, but it worked flawlessly.
> 
> Bert, if you send me ftp login info privately I can upload it to
> your server.  Maybe I can do it at the office in evening hours and
> it'll go a lot faster. I only have 256K upload speed at home. :(
> 
If you'd rather snail mail me a copy, I'd upload it for you (but I can't do
it next week; I'll be in England).

Thanks,

Carl