Re: Lilypond opens another "cmd window"

[Mats Bengtsson]

Ignacio wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> I´m a new user of lilypond, I´ve installed lilypond version 2.8.4.1 in a win2K 
> box. My problem is that I can´t see any activity when I invoke lilypond from the
> "cmd" window (console).
> In fact, when I invoke lilypond (E:\music\source>lilypond piece.ly) windows (or 
> lilypond) opens another "cmd" window empty.
> But the source file gets processed normally, and the program generates 
> a "piece.ps" and "piece.pdf" (gv complains when opening the piece.ps although 
> I've disabled hyperlink generation) and piece.log
>
>  
Here, the window pops up quickly and then disappears again. If I recall
correctly, this didn't happen when you called lilypond from the command
line in earlier 2.8.x versions, only when you double-clicked on a .ly file.

> On the other hand, I can't generate dvi nor tex output by means of --format=dvi 
> or -f dvi. It seems to be some misconfiguration or something I can't figure out
> about configuration.
>  
The tex and dvi output is no longer supported. Why did you want it?

> the -V (verbose) option doesn´t work either.
>
> The program opens lilypad when there´s a source error, and the extra windows 
> gets closed when I close lilypad.
>
>
> It would be useful for me to see what is doing lilypond when compiling.
>  
I have already reported this bug.

  /Mats