LilyPond 1.5.71 for Windows

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

A slightly modified binary release of 1.5.71 is now available for
download.

Also, teTeX has been updated.  A small but fatal flaw (thank Mats) has
been corrected and other fixes and suggestions have been addressed
too.

Download and run

    http://lilypond.org/cygwin/setup.exe

or point you setup.exe to
    
    http://lilypond.org/cygwin

As an aside, Cygwin now also includes GNU Emacs (not available from
the lilypond.org mirror, goto http://cygwin.com).  Together with xdvi
from tetex-x11, this should bring out of the box point and click
functionality on Windows (see the reference manual), but this hasn't
been tested.

Enjoy
Jan.


This new tetex release will probably included in Cygwin.  Here's the
release information for teTeX.


tetex-bin (20020530-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Configure --with-dialog, as Cygwin does not have its own dialog.
  * Split xdvi, oxdvi and mwf into new tetex-x11 package, and by special
    request install in /usr/X11R6.  Not sure if this works in all cases,
    as teTeX does not support a different X11 prefix.
  * cygwin/tetex-bin.hint (requires): Add libkpathsea3.

 -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden>  Fri,  9 Aug 2002 15:33:25 +0200

tetex-texmf (20020530-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * config/fmtutil.cnf: Add missing entries for mf, mfw, mpost, amstex,
    jadetex and pdfjadetex. (Mats Bengtsson)
  * Rename source package to tetex-20020530-3-src.

 -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden>  Fri,  9 Aug 2002 14:31:45 +0200


NEWS:

  * New maintainer for tetex binaries.
  * New upstream release (20020530).
  * Packaged using mknetrel.
  * Shared object libraries for tetex binaries.
  * New package names: tetex-bin, tetex-base, tetex-extra, tetex-doc,
    tetex-tiny.
  * Binary package split up: tetex-bin, tetex-devel, libkpatsea3.
  * Included xdvi and mfw in tetex-x11 package.
  * Basic config files management.
  * Added `Publishing' to the teTeX package category.  [Until now it
    was just `Text', but TeX is not really a text application.  Debian
    uses `tex', but I didn't think that would be useful.  Another
    reason to suggest Publishing, is that it would be a category that
    LilyPond would fit in too.  Or would we rather have a new `Music'
    caterogy for Lily?]


For a smooth upgrade, new upgrade helper packages are provided.  These
look like new versions of tetex-beta, texmf, texmf-base, texmf-extra,
texmf-doc and texmf-tiny, but in fact they're (almost) empty and
depend on their new counterpart package.  Doing an update installs the
`new versions' of your tex packages, but as they're empty, this
effectively removes the old tex installation.  Because the new
packages are automatically selected, you get a new tex installation.

CAVEATS:

   * New port, initial upload to Cygwin.

   * Some care has been taken to treat config files specially (see
     /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh).  However, the previous packages
     did not do this, and if you don't want to risk losing changes you
     made, make backups first.  (Does setup.exe have a framework yet
     to tag and handle config files?  It would be good if setup.exe
     would offer choices and show diffs.)
     
   * TeTeX depends on quite a number of packages.  This should be
     handled automagically, but the old binary package lacked some of
     these requirements, which may still lead to missing programs and
     missing dlls.  For missing DLLs, you get a nice, annoying popup
     box, but missing programs may go unnoticed.  Any of the two may
     break your teTeX configuration.  See below for a list of required
     packages, and where to get DLLs.
     
   * The new tex suite should work flawlessly on a clean install and
     has been tested to work as an upgrade.  However, upgrading may
     bring hairy problems, notably if the old binaries were not fully
     removed or if config files have been tinkered with.  If you run
     into any problems, uninstall all tetex-beta and texmf packages,
     remove /usr/share/texmf, and try again.
     
   * After installation, /etc/postintall/post-texmf.sh[.done] gets
     executed, to configure teTeX and generate the format files.  If
     anything goes wrong, you may want to look at this script, or
     rerun it after you fixed stuff.

   * Kpathsea has been patched to not search down UNC paths by
     default.  Problems with configuration settings may trigger
     searches into the `hosts' `//share' and `//texmf', which is not
     what you want.  If you're using TeX over the network, make sure
     your configuration is fixed, and set environment variable
     `KPSE_SEARCH_UNC'.


Requirements and DLLs.

TeTeX and LilyPond depend on a number of library packages, but as it
seems, they sometimes do not get selected automagically.

teTeX
  requires: ash cygwin ed grep jpeg libncurses6 libpng12 tiff sed
  termcap zlib
  
LilyPond
  requires: bash libguile14 libiconv2 libintl2 libkpathsea3
  python tetex-bin tetex-tiny


  DLL              Package
  cygguile-14.dll  libguile14 
  cygintl-2.dll    libintl2
  cygiconv-2.dll   libiconv2
  cygltdl-3.dll    libltdl3
  cygpcre.dll      pcre
  cygpng12.dll     libpng12
  cygtiff3.dll     tiff

Also, the more general info on missing DLLs may be helpful:

    http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC32
    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01619.html


After a successful installation of tetex (tetex-bin, tetex-tiny or
tetex-base, and libkpathsea3), you should be able to run, eg,

    latex sample2e
    dvips -o sample2e.ps sample2e

If you install XFree86 tetex-x11 and ghostscript-x11, you may even
view the output just like you would do on UNIX:

    xdvi sample2e.dvi &

To view the output in the Windows, non-XFree enviroment, you need a
PostScript viewer.  It has been suggested that gv is available for
Cygwin, but I can't seem to find it.  However, you can find a plain
Windows one here: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost.  After installing
Ghostscript and GSView, you may do:

    gsview32 sample2e.ps     # view
    gsview32 /s sample2e.ps  # print




-- 
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien       | http://www.lilypond.org