Frescobaldi with LilyPond in WSL (was: Fatal error compiling large project (Win10/2.19.82))

[Urs Liska]

Am 19.12.18 um 21:56 schrieb Michael Gerdau:
> > First step would be running Frescobaldi from its Git repository
> > (and at that occasion test if the description is accurate and also works
> > for Windows 10):
> > https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/Run-Frescobaldi-3-from-Git-on-Windows
> Commenting as I go:
> These are the discrepancies so far:
> I'm on a 64bit Windows 10, the copy commands needs to be:
> cp /c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Frescobaldi/...


Do you think it would be sufficient to state something like "adjust 
paths to your actual installation"?


> There is a directory /c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Frescobaldi/printsupport
> Is that copied as well or ignored?


I have no idea if that directory wasn't there when I tried this out or 
if I simply missed it when writing the rules. I would say this qualifies 
as "everything except the frescobaldi_app directory", so I'd say yes, 
copy it.


> Which custom branch am I supposed to check out as well?


None so far, there's no relevant code up yet.

The first milestone is having Frescobaldi run from Git at all (which you 
can see from the "Git" menu appearing between "Session" and "Help").

I must say in advance that I'm not very likely to be able to follow 
through on this "project". I'm interested in it and can make a few tests 
to start with, in order to get an idea whether it can work at all. 
Providing a proper solution is something I can't afford going after at 
the moment since I'm already busy with several other intrusive projects 
on Frescobaldi.

One thing you should prepare if Frescobaldi runs at all is register one 
(and only one) LilyPond instance that should probably point to a regular 
Windows LilyPond. I'm asking for this because when I'll write any code 
for this it will be more or less blindsided, and I want to be sure that 
I don't get confused by Frescobaldi trying to determine the appopriate 
LilyPond to be used.

Urs

> Kind regards,
> Michael