On 1/5/09 7:06 AM, "Andrew Wilson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Carl
>
>
> Since I'm mailing you anyway, I'll include this. I was planning to use cygwin
> to
> do the lilypond development. I've installed git, worked through a basic
> tutorial
> and grabbed a copy of the sources from the main repository. So far, so good.
>
> Now I've run into a problem, I don't seem to be able to do a build and I'm
> not
> sure how I can do bug fixes without that. Do you know if anyone has managed
> to get the sources to build on cygwin? Is it a sensible development
> environment
I have two answers to your questions:
1) It is possible to do bug-fixing without the ability to build locally.
Much development work can be done by editing .scm and .ly files, which don't
require building. But I can't say in advance whether a particular bug can
be fixed without the ability to build.
2) I know that it used to be possible to build on cygwin, because I did it.
But keeping that capability up was a bit of a pain. I don't know if it's
currently buildable or not. IIRC, Bertalan Fodor (author of LilyPondTool)
was the one who got LilyPond building on cygwin. You might ask him for his
ideas.
Eventually, I got a Linux box that I used for building LilyPond. The box
was old and cheap, and it worked just fine.
I'd recommend establishing a dual boot system with a Linux partition that
you use for building LilyPond. It was lots easier for me.
Carl
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