Chris Yate <chrisy...@gmail.com> writes: > Following up a conversation on the user list, as this might be a better > place to ask... I think we've established that the only way to compile for > Windows is to use GUB on Linux to cross-compile for mingw. Well, GUB barfs > all the time here. I could start posting chunks of GUB log messages, but I > don't feel that's really useful at this point -- if someone is able to help > diagnose the problem we can look into that! > > First, to make sure I'm not wasting my time, can somebody suggest what > build platform and configuration I need to successfully cross-compile > Lilypond for Windows? I've tried a number of different Ubuntu versions, > either VMs or linux running directly on the metal. I've had to install a > few libraries (mpf, mpc, zlib etc.) from apt in order to get a step further > in GUB. I've also installed the mingw g++ packages, though I'm not sure > whether that is relevant. > > Also, do I need to anything more than: > $ bin/gub mingw::lilypond > ? > > Alternatively, I'm sure it should be possible (possibly easy) to > ./configure the lilypond source code directly for cross compilation. If > someone has a quick solution for how to do that, I'd be really grateful of > it. > > Context: I'm getting seriously fed up with a bug in Lilypond that's causing > the build of scores of larger than smallish size to crash. It's a very > repeatable assertion failure, "Line 1180 in Page-Breaking.cc". However, > I've not found it easy to create a reliable "minimal" example for this. It > only seems to happen in reasonably complicated scores with 10+ staves and a > few pages. In any case, unless I can compile this for Windows I wouldn't > be able to investigate the problem at all.
If you can run this in a debugger in Windows, you could try giving a backtrace. It might help enough for getting closer to the source of the problem. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
