Re: Lilypond now working on Cygwin on Windows XP

[Mats Bengtsson]

Why don't you follow the instructions at
http://lilypond.org/web/install/windows and simply
double-click on an .ly file to process it?

If you email was intended as an help for other newcomers, you forgot
the most tricky aspect for a Cygwin beginner, namely the folder
structure and what folder you should put test.ly in, namely in the
folder with your login name located below C:\cygwin\home\
(or H:\cygin in your case, even though the recommendation is
to always use C: to be on the safe side).

Multiple versions of the packages in your download directory
shouldn't be a problem, since the installer keeps track of
what version is the latest.

By the way, cygfreetype-6.dll is in the libfreetype26 package.

   /Mats

Charles Web wrote:
> I got Lilypond working by reinstalling Cygwin completely.
> I cant start X11 (see end of this message), but LilyPond is working!
>
> ----
>
> My LilyPond workds after I did a fresh install of Cygwin.
> I discovered that my directory of packages contained two
> different versions of various packages, due to previous
> downloading. TIP: Make sure you dont have any
> duplicates by inspecting each directory, and duplicate
> the older versions!
>
> Here is a summary of what I did:
>
> My local directory of Cygwin Packages is H:\Cywgwin Packages
>
> My Cygwin directory is H:\cygwin
>
> I did a fresh install of Cygwin selecting only the essential
> packages: Lilypond, all Tetex packages, X11, PDF, Ghostscript.
> The final phase of the installation complained about some
> missing DLLS so I reran the installation choosing the
> cygxft, and cygfreetype packages. I'm not sure why these
> packages weren't chosen as dependencies.
>
> The Cygwin icon on the desktop has the target of:
>
>    H:\cygwin\cygwin.bat
>
> The contents of cygwin.bat are:
>
>    @echo off
>
>    H:
>    chdir H:\cygwin\bin
>
>    bash --login -i
>
> Double clicking the icon gives some messages indicating the
> setup:
>
>    Copying skeleton files.
>    These files are for the user to personalise
>    their cygwin experience.
>
>    These will never be overwritten.
>
>    `./.bashrc' -> `/home/Charles Cave//.bashrc'
>    `./.bash_profile' -> `/home/Charles Cave//.bash_profile'
>    `./.inputrc' -> `/home/Charles Cave//.inputrc'
>
>
> let's try out Lilypond. Create a test file lil.ly:
>
>    $ cat lil.ly
>    { c'4 e' g' }
>
> and let's run Lilypond:
>
>    $ lilypond lil.ly
>    GNU LilyPond 2.4.6
>    Processing `lil.ly'
>    Parsing...
>    Interpreting music... [1]
>    Preprocessing graphical objects...
>    Calculating line breaks... [2]
>    Layout output to `lil.tex'...
>    Converting to `lil.dvi'...
>    Converting to `lil.ps'...
>    Converting to `lil.pdf'...
>
>
>
> Cygwin troubleshooting
>
> The cygcheck -s command produces a lot of useful
> information about your system.
>
> The cygcheck -c command lists all the packages,
> their version and status. If a package is incomplete,
> I would assume that reinstalling it should fix the problem.
>
>
>   libXft-devel         2.1.6-1            OK
>   libxml2              2.6.16-2           OK
>   lilypond             2.4.6-1            OK   <---
>   lilypond-doc         2.4.6-1            OK   <---
>   login                1.9-7              OK
>
>   xorg-x11-base        6.8.2.0-1          OK
>   xorg-x11-bin         6.8.2.0-1          OK
>   xorg-x11-bin-dlls    6.8.2.0-1          OK
>   xorg-x11-bin-lndir   6.8.2.0-1          OK
>   xorg-x11-devel       6.8.2.0-2          OK
>   xorg-x11-etc         6.8.2.0-1          OK
>   xorg-x11-fenc        6.8.1.0-2          OK
>   xorg-x11-fnts        6.8.1.0-3          Incomplete
>   xorg-x11-fscl        6.8.1.0-2          OK
>   xorg-x11-fsrv        6.8.2.0-1          OK
>   xorg-x11-libs-data   6.8.2.0-1          OK
>   xorg-x11-man-pages   6.8.2.0-1          OK
>   xorg-x11-xwin        6.8.2.0-2          OK
>   xpdf                 3.00-2             OK
>   xterm                196-1              OK
>   xwinclip             1.2.0-1            OK
>   xwinwm               0.0.5-1            OK
>
> I reinstalled X11 packages that looked related to fonts,
> but could not find a package called fnts or x11-fnts.
> I still got the message during installation:
>
>   The application has failed to start because cygfreetype-6.dll was
>   not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
>
> The challenge is to find out which package contains this file.
> The cygcheck -f option finds the package for a nominated file,
> but it didn't work for this dll
>
>    $ cygcheck -f cygfreetype-6.dll
>
>
>
>
>
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