Re: Lilypond on windows

2008-12-30 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Trevor Daniels wrote: > Stefan Waler wrote Monday, December 29, 2008 12:31 PM > > > I'm just wondering what the actual requirements are for running > > lilypond with mingw on windows platforms. Is there any list for that? > > AFAIK no one has seriously tried to compile

Re: Lilypond on windows

2008-12-30 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Valentin Villenave wrote: > By the way, I had kept in mind that cross-compiling Python was not > possible, but it seems that someone we know is trying hard to make it > happen: http://bugs.python.org/issue1597850 Probably you kept the memory of my failed attempts at bu

Re: Lilypond on windows

2008-12-30 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/12/29 Werner LEMBERG : > Speaking as one of the FreeType authors: *Of course* FreeType builds > on Windows, even with native Windows compilers. I'm very happy to read that. It would certainly be great to be able to build lily directly under mingSys, but I still think it won't be possible wit

Re: Lilypond on windows

2008-12-29 Thread Trevor Daniels
Stefan Waler wrote Monday, December 29, 2008 12:31 PM I'm just wondering what the actual requirements are for running lilypond with mingw on windows platforms. Is there any list for that? AFAIK no one has seriously tried to compile LP under mingw on a Windows platform. It may be possible, b

Re: Lilypond on windows

2008-12-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> IIRC, some libraries can simply not be built on Windows (e.g. Python > or Freetype). Speaking as one of the FreeType authors: *Of course* FreeType builds on Windows, even with native Windows compilers. Werner ___ lilypond-devel mailing list li

Re: Lilypond on windows

2008-12-29 Thread Stefan Waler
Valentin Villenave wrote: IIRC, some libraries can simply not be built on Windows (e.g. Python or Freetype). So, the only way would be to use Cygwin (for a similar reason, the OpenJDK can not yet be built on Windows without Cygwin). As for Python: having been with boost for a long time (http

Re: Lilypond on windows

2008-12-29 Thread Valentin Villenave
2008/12/29 Stefan Waler : > I assume there are some others like me who could offer their participation > in development if they could compile lilypond on windows platforms (which > should be no problem with the self-written lilypond code AFAICS). IIRC, some libraries can simply not be

Lilypond on windows

2008-12-29 Thread Stefan Waler
Hi, I'm just wondering what the actual requirements are for running lilypond with mingw on windows platforms. Is there any list for that? I assume there are some others like me who could offer their participation in development if they could compile lilypond on windows platforms (

Speed Test Results of Lilypond on Windows (Cygwin and coLinux)

2005-03-15 Thread Joshua Koo
Hi, I setup a simple test to see how to lilypond takes to complete operating on a file, on cygwin compared to on colinux. Platform this test is ran on is on a PIII 800MHz, 359MB ram, running Windows 2k. Cygwin is installed selecting the Lilypond 2.4.2-1 package. coLinux (0.6.2) runs the Debian-