Re: lilypond-invoke-editor can't find editor.scm in Windows

[James Lowe]

Federico

On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 18:20:53 +0200, Federico Bruni <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> 
> Il giorno lun 23 lug 2018 alle 10:36, James Lowe <address@hidden> 
> ha scritto:
> > Federico,
> > 
> > On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 09:13:09 +0200, Federico Bruni 
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> >>  Hi all
> >> 
> >>  The lilypond-invoke-editor installed in Windows returns the 
> >> following
> >>  error:
> >> 
> >>   > guile.exe 'C:\Program Files
> >>  (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-invoke-editor'
> >>  textedit://C:/Users/test/Documents/test.ly:10:9:10
> >>  lilypond-invoke-editor (GNU LilyPond) 2.19.82
> >>  ERROR: no code for module (scm editor)
> >> 
> >>  It seems it cannot find the editor.scm file?
> >> 
> >>  The file is in 'C:\Program Files
> >>  (x86)\LilyPond\usr\share\lilypond\current\scm'.
> >>  How can I tell Windows where to find it?
> >> 
> >>  I'm using Windows 10.
> > 
> > I believe we set the path to the bin dir
> > 
> 
> Hi James
> 
> "We set" means what? AFAIK the Windows installation does not add any 
> path to the system environment variables, if this is what you meant.
> I had to manually add the bin/ directory to the Path in order to launch 
> lilypond.exe without the prefix.

Yes you are correct. I forgot that we changed that many moons ago.

> 
> 
> > Try setting the path explicitly for the SCM dir.
> > 
> > You can do it via the UI or using the 'setx' command
> > 
> 
> I've tried adding the usr/share/scm dir to the path, but didn't work.
> 
> Then I skimmed through the lilypond-invoke-editor script and I figured 
> out that setting the LILYPOND_DATADIR to "C:\Program Files 
> (x86)\LilyPond\usr\share\lilypond\current" would help, but it didn't.

OK so I installed Windows 10, downloaded the latest dev binary, installed it 
and tried it myself.

It seems to work for me.

--snip--

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.167]
(c) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Joe user>cd Desktop

C:\Users\Joe user\Desktop>path
PATH=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;%path;C:\Program
 Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond

C:\Users\Joe user\Desktop>lilypond test.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.19.82
Processing `test.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music...
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
Layout output to `./tmp-lilypond-2A4lvz'...
Converting to `test.pdf'...
Deleting `./tmp-lilypond-2A4lvz'...
Success: compilation successfully completed

C:\Users\Joe user\Desktop>

--snip--

I was not sure if perhaps it was one of those many 'spaces in path' or 'using 
remote drive' issues that I remember someone reporting but could not get any 
problems compiling.

Anything more you can give me to try to reproduce?

Regards

James