[Denemo-devel] Fairly good news Re: MIDI in on windows binaries

[Richard Shann]

I have tested this. The bad news is:
 The denemo-console.exe and denemo.exe are both now running without a
terminal (they are identical files), while lilypond continues to run in
a terminal.
>From this it would seem that the -mwindows flag you have been altering
is applying to the make of denemo-console.exe not lilypond.exe or
lilypond-windows.exe.

The good news, however is:

I executed c:\program files\denemo\usr\bin\lilypond.exe from a command
line under windows and it ran without throwing up a terminal.
I tried \denemo\usr\bin\lilypond-windows.exe but this didn't appear to
do anything.
Then I put this whole path

c:\denemo\usr\bin\lilypond-windows.exe 

 into the Edit->Preferences->Externals as the Path to LilyPond and (for
the first time ever) denemo launched lilypond without a terminal.
Finally I tried just lilypond-windows.exe without the path, it launched
a terminal briefly each time lilypond ran, but only briefly - I suspect
this was a terminal to launch lilypond which then ran without one. (ie a
terminal for a .bat file or something like that).

I will try to put the full path to lilypond-windows.exe into the
executable for G_OS_WIN32 today, and we should have the lilypond launch
thing conquered.

I have no progress to report on the MIDI-in thing though - there is
still no portmidi option, and because denemo-console.exe is now not
running in a terminal I see no messages. Just revert the change to the
-mwindows flag you made to fix this.

Richard


On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 13:10 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> Yes its from the 26th. I compiled it with -mwindows. I meant to say
> with not without. Sorry.
> 
> Jeremiah
> 
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 11:21 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
>                 I recompiles and uploaded rc3 without this -mwindows 
>         
>         ??? have we got our wires crossed I wonder. We need the -mwindows flag
>         present in the LilyPond build to avoid it popping up a terminal to run
>         in. Examples I see on the net have it in the linker flags, but I think
>         you can put it on the compile line and it gets passed through to the
>         linker.
>         Is the new version the one dated 26 Dec 2012?
>         
>         Richard
>         
>         
>                 and turned off the debug stuff. I am still investigating this 
> portmidi
>                 thing. When I launched it in wine it said it was using
>                 portmidi
>                 backend. I am not sure if I believe it.
>                 
>                 Jeremiah
>                 
>                 Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
>                 On Wed, 2012-12-26 at 17:28 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
>                 ...
>                 I tried looking for the flag that the compiler needs to tell 
> it to run
>                 without popping up a terminal but I couldn't find it in my 
> notes (it
>                 would be on an old windows partition that I don't have access 
> to,
>                 somewhere). (I was forgetting that this LilyPond terminal is 
> the other
>                 showstopper we have for a release.)
>                 
>                 I have found the flag that turns off the popup terminal for 
> windows
>                 binaries:
>                 
>                 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3646572/preventing-terminal-window-from-popping-up-when-launching-program
>                 
>                 Add the -mwindows flag
>                 when compiling
>                 
>                 Richard
>                 
>                 
>                 Richard
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 Jeremiah
>                 
>                 
>                 The lack of anything in the preferences under MIDI backend 
> points to the
>                 portmidi code not being linked in I guess?
>                 
>                 Richard
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 
>                 -- 
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> brevity.
>         
>         
> 
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