Re: [Denemo-devel] Problems with Denemo intallation 0.7.9

[Richard Shann]

I was being unduly pessimistic - I was missing various helper
executables in Denemo/bin, I will build the 0.7.9 for Windows and post
it up by tomorrow if possible.
Richard

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 22:00 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 15:27 +0200, Fra Walter Vassallo OFM wrote:
> > Thanks Richard for your reply
> > 
> > I edited the preferences several times but they don't work. I added
> > Environment Variables so that the EXEs would be visible but to no
> > avail. The path given is correct because if i write it in a command
> > prompt it works.
> This has started to happen on my machine as well now, (unfortunately, my
> build of a windows version is just a hack, with no version control, so I
> can't easily tell what has changed). I put in a little debug output, and
> it seems that the spawning process is failing even when attempting to
> run the built-in command "echo"
> It turns out you can check that the path is correct by running PDF
> export, which does a check for the existence of your LilyPond
> executable, as given in your preferences. This check is not done with
> the print command (for no good reason), but the spawn fails
> nevertheless.
> The error message being reported is "bad argument".
> More than this, I cannot say, I am pessimistic about my chances of
> fixing this, as I don't know have any tools for debugging on windows.
> 
> I suspect that the set of libraries that I have upgraded to is faulty.
> Not that the libraries are faulty but, more likely, the copying and
> placing of them.
> (They are copied in under ...program files/Denemo/... from the gtkbundle
> for windows that comes from the gtk website).
> I mention all this in the hope that someone listening in will rise to
> the challenge of copying in the correct libraries to the correct places
> and getting the thing working. And then tell us what to do!
> 
> Richard
> 
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