Re: Windows install/run error

[Mats Bengtsson]

If you haven't had LilyPond installed on this machine earlier, I hope 
that you have tried to log out and log in again after the installation, 
otherwise there are some settings of environment
variables that Windows hasn't noticed yet.

  /Mats

Quoting Gilles THIBAULT <address@hidden>:

>  I just installed Lilypond 2.11.33 on Windows XP, and I get the 
> following error when I try to run:
>
>  C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr\bin>lilypond c:\lilypond\test.ly
>  GNU LilyPond 2.11.33
>  programming error: cannot find absolute argv0
>  continuing, cross fingers
>  ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
>  ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
>
> I just installed this version also on XP : no such problem.
>
> But i think, looking for your 2 path:
>      exe path :  C:\Program Files\LilyPond
> and
>      file path : c:\lilypond
> that guile searches the directory "ice-9" in the second path instead 
> of the first one.
> Try to compile test.ly from another directory (c:\testfiles\test.ly 
> for example) and see if you get the same message.
>
> For me, this message has always occured when i tried to use guile 
> alone (to learn scheme for exemple).I must first change directory to
>  "C:\Program Files\LilyPond\usr" and guile then don't complain anymore.
>
> Gilles