On Wednesday, 22 March 2000, "James Hammons" writes:

> OK, now I'm totally confused...  I've got both of the above distributions,
> and after I went into the 'bin' subdirectory (and renamed 'lilypond' to
> 'lilypond.exe') and tried to run it, it complained about wanting
> 'cygwin1.dll'.  So I renamed 'cygwin1-net-485.dll' to 'cygwin1.dll' and it
> complained that it couldn't find 'cygwin1-net-485.dll'.  Aarrrgggghhhhh!  So

Yes, a silly bug, so it seems.  As I said, not for the faint of heart,
this is the type of thing I was expecting, more or less.
Hopefully, I'll have a better .jcn2 soon.

> I renamed it back, went to ftpsearch and got a copy of 'cygwin1.dll' (says
> last modified date: Thursday, December 03, 1998 8:44:26 PM; size: 456,192
> bytes) and now it says:
> 
> The LILYPOND.EXE file is linked to missing export CYGWIN1.DLL:_ctype_.

Yes, that .dll won't work, you must have the one from the net-485
pre-release

> Ok, so what's the obvious thing that I'm missing here?  And, more
> importantly, where is it posted?  :-p

Didn't miss anything, you helped with another test version.

Thanks.
Greetings,

Jan.

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
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