Re: anyone got lilypond 2.16.2 to work on Windows Vista?

[Robert Honoré]

On 02/08/2013 08:17, David Nalesnik wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Robert Honoré <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     On 02/08/2013 04:45, Urs Liska wrote:
> 
> [...]
>  
> 
>     > If it's so small you can simply attach it to the email.
>     >
> 
>     Here it is, then.
> 
> 
> This example file is very old.  When I try to run it (under 2.17.23), I
> get a warning "file too old: 2.6.0 (oldest supported: 2.7.38)".  
> Running convert-ly on it doesn't fully update it: in particular "staff"
> isn't properly capitalized---though I don't know if that was ever
> correct syntax.
> 
> --David
> 
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I have an update consisting of a command line session log (not the
lilypond log file).

Please find attached lilypond_debug_log.txt and craptastic-1.ly.

I had observed that following the uninstall prior to installing the new
lilypond, the C:\program files\lilypond directory was still left behind,
together with some of its subdirectories, when the uninstall procedure
reported that it had completed.  So I deleted that entire directory
tree.  I also searched the registry for any reference to lilypond, and
found that the only ones around in the registry pertained to the
software for Denemo and Frescobaldi, so I left the registry alone.

Then I did a fresh installation of lilypond 2.16.2, and attempted
another test.

When I used the command "lilypond --version" the command quickly
returned with the version and license information.  I thought that
looked like progress, so I tried to use lilypond to process a file.  I
used the command, "lilypond -l DEBUG craptastic.ly in the directory
containing the file craptastic-1.ly.  The result I got is described in
the attached file lilypond_debug_log.txt.  Notice from the log that the
filename craptastic.ly is actually invalid, but I do not get an error
message about the file not being found.

>From the last line appearing on the debug log, lilypond apparently got
stuck building the font database.  I let it run for almost an hour
before I killed it with a ctrl-C.  It does not appear to have made any
progress beyond that.  This time I don't believe I did anything wrong in
the installation of lilypond, but it still doesn't work for me.

Yours sincerely,
Robert Honoré.

lilypond_debug_log.txt
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craptastic-1.ly
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