Re: LilyPond processing mode

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Peter Leschev wrote:
> Hi,
>
>                I'm having problems trying to get processing mode up and
> running using the Windows version of Lilypond (I'm unable to test with 
> other
> versions). I've tried versions 2.7.18 & 2.7.19.
>
>                I'm able to run it in guile, but it doesn't work in
> lilypond.
>
> $ /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/LilyPond/usr/bin/guile -s socket-setup.scm
> Listening for clients in pid: 832
> Got new client connection: #(2 2130706433 1714)
> Client address: #("localhost" () 2 4 (2130706433))
>
>        Killing the above process and trying:
>
> $ /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/LilyPond/usr/bin/lilypond.exe socket-setup.ly
> GNU LilyPond 2.7.19
> Processing `socket-setup.ly'
> Parsing...ERROR: In procedure socket:
> ERROR: No such file or directory
>
>            I get the same symptoms from a DOS prompt. Could it be that 
> it can't find some required libraries?

It's very likely that windows networking is sufficiently different from 
Unix networking that it doesn't work on windows. You might have better 
luck with Cygwin, though.

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