Strange Install Problems

[Randy Keeling]

Greetings,

I have just re-installed (wipe the drive and installed from the ground 
up) my computer and went to put Lily back on it. The other day when I 
first installed it I used the Windows binary as opposed to using Cygwin. 
Today I went with Cygwin. After installing Cygwin (v 2.457.2.2) I had 
two problems:

Problem 1) First I opened a bash window and typed Lilypond. I got an 
error message stating that the application failed to start because 
cygcrypt-0.dll was not found. After a quick google, I found that I 
should have installed the cyrpt package too. I did this and all was 
fixed BUT... shouldn't this have been added as a dependency? Is this a 
Lilypond problem or a Cygwin problem?

Problem 2) Regardless of what files I try to use with Lilypond I get an 
error that the file could not be found. I used the command Lilypond 
test.ly As a result I get:

GNU Lilypond 2.6.0
warning: can't find file: 'test.ly'
error: failed files: "test.ly"

There are no files generated (log, etc)

For the record, I am using Windows XP Home SP2. Cygwin is installed to 
c:\cygwin. The files are in C:\cygwin\home\Randy and I downloaded my 
Cygwin packages from the mirror http://mirrors.kernel.org. During the 
install the only thing I checked on was Lilypond. I have tried this 
three times. After each failure I deleted the folder C:\cygwin, 
restarted, and tried again.

Thanks,
Randy

Randy