Re: LilyPond 2.6.4-5 installation "breaks " Windows

[Mats Bengtsson]

I've noticed similar problems. When I opened a command prompt
and viewed the value of the PATH environment variable using
set PATH
it said something like:
C:\Program 
Files\LilyPond\usr\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;C:\Program 
Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel; ...

and standard Windows programs like ipconfig where not found.
In other words, the %SystemRoot% references were not expanded.
Another symptom was the complaint that the anti-virus didn't work,
just as you reported.

The solution was to Right click on My Computer, select Properties ->
Advanced -> Environment Variables, edit the System variable PATH
and move C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin; to the end of the list.
Then, the PATH worked correctly.

What is weird is that I compared with the computer of a colleague.
He happened to have another program installed which had been added
to the beginning of the path and doing 'set PATH' on his computer showed
C:\Program Files\...;%SystemRoot%\system32;...
but Windows still managed to find programs in C:\WINDOWS (which
is what %SystemRoot% expands to). I don't understand why that worked
but not the setting given by the LilyPond installer.

Anyway, it seems that one solution would be to add the LilyPond path
at the end of the PATH environment variable.

  /Mats


Brian Haddon wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I've been running LilyPond on Windows XP Pro SP2 with no problems.
>
> I recently installed the LilyPond 2.6.4-5 upgrade (I had been running 2.6.4-1
> previously). All went well. However, after rebooting my computer, the Windows
> Security Centre appeared, warning me that I had no anti-virus utility installed.
> Yet my anti-virus scanner was installed, and functioning correctly.
>
> Then, upon opening certain programs, I would get the error message, "The
> application cannot run because framedyn.dll cannot be found." Yet again,
> framedyn.dll was installed on the system, and where it should be (in
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\framedyn.dll).
>
> Some research brought me to the following registry key:
> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment\Path.
>
> Here, I found that LilyPond install had inserted the paths to LilyPond,
> apparently so that Windows would be able to run Python apps such as midi2ly.
> Somehow, this seems to be interfering with Windows' ability to see certain
> system files.
>
> I tried resolving this by editing the LilyPond references in the various path
> keys, but to no avail. In the meantime, I've system restored and reverted to
> LilyPond 2.6.4-1.
>
> Is there a way to get LilyPond 2.6.4-5 up and running?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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