lilypond does not work

[Robert F. mudde]

Dear helpers,

 

I have just downloaded lylipond-1.4.9.uu1 (at least I guess that's what it is) for one of my daughters to write sheet music. And guess what: I can't get it working. I followed your instructions from

http://lilypond.org/stable/Documentation/windows/out-www/installing.html

and got stuck almost immediately.

I made a file foo.ly with contents as you specified:

 

\score { \notes { c4 ( ) c4 } }

 

I have stored that in c:/cygwin/home/robmudde, which is the directory the gnu-lilypond icon opens in when double clicked. There I have typed

 

ly2dvi -P foo

 

and indeed lilypond starts working on the file. But it stops with a screen more than filled with warnings and ends with some errors. Below you find what I could copy from the screen (quite some lines are missing, but I can't get the screen bigger than 50 lines)

 

warning: can't find file: `arranger'
warning: can't find file: `-H'
warning: can't find file: `instrument'
warning: can't find file: `-H'
warning: can't find file: `opus'
warning: can't find file: `-H'
warning: can't find file: `piece'
warning: can't find file: `-H'
warning: can't find file: `metre'
warning: can't find file: `-H'
warning: can't find file: `meter'
warning: can't find file: `-H'
warning: can't find file: `poet'
warning: can't find file: `-H'
warning: can't find file: `texttranslator'
warning: can't find file: `-H'
warning: can't find file: `language'
warning: can't find file: `-H'
warning: can't find file: `linewidth'
warning: can't find file: `-H'
warning: can't find file: `latexpackages'
warning: can't find file: `-H'
warning: can't find file: `latexoptions'
warning: can't find file: `-H'
warning: can't find file: `latexheaders'
warning: can't find file: `-H'
warning: can't find file: `orientation'
warning: can't find file: `-H'
warning: can't find file: `pagenumber'
warning: can't find file: `-H'
warning: can't find file: `textheight'
warning: can't find file: `-H'
warning: can't find file: `papersize'
warning: can't find file: `/home/Rob'
warning: can't find file: `Mudde/foo'
warning: no lilypond output found for /home/Rob Mudde/foo
Running LaTeX...
error: latex: command exited with value 256
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lilypond-1.4.9.uu1/bin/ly2dvi.py", line 842, in ?
    run_latex (files, outbase, extra_init)
  File "/usr/lilypond-1.4.9.uu1/bin/ly2dvi.py", line 622, in run_latex
    system (cmd)
  File "/usr/lilypond-1.4.9.uu1/bin/ly2dvi.py", line 230, in system
    error (msg)
  File "/usr/lilypond-1.4.9.uu1/bin/ly2dvi.py", line 128, in error
    raise _ ("Exiting ... ")
Exiting ...
LATEX output to `foo.latex'...

I have no idea what is wrong. Please help and while doing so, please keep in mind that you 'talk' to laymen. Specify literally what you want us to do.

 

We are running lilypond on a standard PC, using windows ME as operating system. As far as I can tell nothing went wrong with the installation. The directory tree we now have is like

 

cygwin - bin

           - etc - postinstall

                  - profile.d

                  - setup

           - home - robmudde

           - lib - python2.1 -config

                                  -curses

                                  -disutils - command

                                  -encoding

                                  -lib-dynload

                                  -lib-old

                                  -lib-tk

                                  -plat-cygwin

                                  -site-packages

                                  -test - output

                                  -xml - dorn

                                         - parsers

                                         - sax

           - linux-x-cygwin - usr - bin

           - sbin

           - tmp

           - usr - bin

                  - doc + more subs

                  - include + more subs

                  - info

                  - lib

                  - lilypond-1.4.9.uu1 + more subs

                  - local + more subs

                  - man + more subs

                  - sbin

                  - share + more subs

                  - src

                  - tmp

                  - windows + more subs

           - var - run

                  - tmp

        

 

 

greetings and hoping that you can help us

 

Robert F. Mudde

and family