Re: problems with lilypond 2.5.31 under WinME

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Brynne and Russ Jorgensen writes:

> When I run lilypond from the desktop, it does not start up lilypad
> with the Welcome_to_LilyPond.ly file.  However, if I start a command
> shell, cd to the LilyPond usr\bin directory and then run lilypond, it
> DOES start up lilypad.  I thought it was a problem quoting spaces in
> the install directory, so I uninstalled and re-installed in a
> directory without spaces, and it's still not working.  I dug a little
> deeper, and I think now that the problem is that lilypond.exe is not
> affecting the environment at all.  I put the following batch file in
> c:\windows to see what lilypond.exe does to the environment:

Running

   LILYPOND_VERBOSE=1 lilypond

prints changed environment settings.

> As you can see, PATH does not contain lilypond\usr\bin, and the
> various GS_FONTPATH, GS_LIB, GUILE_LOAD_PATH and PANGO_RC_FILE
> environment variables aren't set at all!

The environment changes only affect the current process.

> it looks like setup_paths()
> is supposed to be doing this, but it doesn't appear to be working.
> Therefore, whenever lilypond tries to execute a program that it should
> find in its path (lilypad.exe and more importantly also gs.exe), the
> program isn't found. I can't get lilypond.exe to compile, so I can't
> debug any deeper.  Let me know if you have some things you'd like me
> to try...
>
>       -Russ
>
>

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