Re: Compilation

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Tim Reeves <address@hidden>:

> Alan,
>
> It looked like no one else responded to you, so I'll give it a go.
>
> It looks like your problem is not with Lilypond, but with Ghostscript.

I don't this so. If you read the printouts carefully, you will notice
that it tries to create a file C:My Documents.ps instead of C:/My 
Documents/test.ps, which doesn't make sense. I haven't seen
any such problems in Windows XP so you may be right that it's somehow
related to Win ME. I have seen some reasonably recent emails claiming
that the LilyPond works even in Win 982E, though.

Alan, exactly what did you do to process your test.ly file? Did you
double-click on the file or drag/drop it onto the LilyPond icon on the 
desktop or ...?
Also, please tell exactly which LilyPond version you installed.

   /Mats

> Is Ghostscript 8.57 a stable version?
> I'm running version 8.53 with no problems, although on XP SP2, not on
> WinME.
> Has anyone ever suggested that you try a different OS (e.g. Win 2K or XP)?
> I've heard a lot of bad things about Win ME. Please don't take offense. It
> might be no problem for you.
>
> Just my thoughts. Good luck. Lilypond is a great program.
>
>
> Tim Reeves
>
>
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:03:59 -0000
> From: "Alan Hardinge" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Compilation
> To: <address@hidden>
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Dear Sirs,
> I have not been able to compile your LilyPond program. I get the following
> error message in the log file.
>
> # -*-compilation-*-
> Processing `C:/My Documents/test.ly'
> Parsing...
> Interpreting music... [2]
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Layout output to `C:My Documents.ps'...
> Converting to `C:My Documents.pdf'...GPL Ghostscript SVN PRE-RELEASE 8.57:
> Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
> I am using a Microsoft Windows ME system 4.90.3000 on an Intel Celeron
> computer. I would appreciate very much any help in getting going.
> Faithfully             Mark