Well, it seems like it hangs on just starting lilypond. (and, as I've mentioned, I didn't have this problem with version 2.18)
As soon as it gets past this line... So, this line takes 99% of the time in the progressbar: Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.19.44 [whatever.ly]... then all the rest progresses nice and fast. Processing `C:/hymns/whatever.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music...[8][16] Preprocessing graphical objects... Interpreting music... MIDI output to `whatever.mid'... Finding the ideal number of pages... Fitting music on 1 page... Drawing systems... Layout output to `./tmp-lilypond-WYGD9b'... Converting to `whatever.pdf'... Deleting `./tmp-lilypond-WYGD9b'... Success: compilation successfully completed Completed successfully in 30.0". -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Long-Compile-time-with-version-2-19-44-tp192343p192350.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user