Re: HOWTO: lilypond-1.3.98 on windows32

[janneke]

"Jeff Henrikson" <address@hidden> writes:

> So I figured out the random "copy ice-9 from magic bag into lilypond tree" 
> step too, but this isn't working for the newest release.

Don't do this.  If you would just *not mess* with the paths, and
untar lilypond and guile in /, it just works.  If it doesn't
set GUILE_LOAD_PATH, just as described in

    http://appel.lilypond.org/lilypond/gnu-windows/README.text

> So here are some things I don't get:
> 
> 1) why do the instructions say to download guile when there's a guile linked 
> into lily and all that's needed is ice-9?

Because I *want* you to install guile, and install it in the proper
path, so that you can do some debugging, and we don't get so many
silly windows-related questions...

> 2) if the correct thing is just to have ice-9 in the tree, then why isn't it 
> distributed with lily to begin with?  ice-9 is ass-old
> code if I recall correctly.

It is not.

> 3) why is the guile 1.4 zip posted containing two entire redundant trees of 
> guile? (called "cygwin" and "cygnus" if I recall)  Did
> anybody wonder why 1.3 to 1.4 went from 1.4 to 3+ MB compressed?

Thanks, fixed.
(btw, the tar ball is ok, it's just that `zip' sucks).

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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