Re: lilypond stalls on windows every time

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:31:25 +0100, "Han-Wen Nienhuys"
> <address@hidden> said:
> > dave k wrote:
> > > 2.8.0 on Windows XP SP2 
> > >         
> > > Running Lilypond always hangs before it starts compiling, every 
> > > single time. I ran --verbose and this is where it stalls: 
> > >         
> > > Initializing FontConfig...
> > > Rebuilding FontConfig cache C:\Documents and Settings\do/.fonts.cache-1.
> > > this may take a while...
> > > adding font directory:
> > > C:/Programs/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond//current/fonts/otf/
> > > adding font directory:
> > > C:/Programs/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond//current/fonts/type1/
> > > Building font database.
> > >
> > > It does this every single time. When I check C:\Documents and 
> > > Settings\user\, I have a blank .fonts.cache-1 file. When I delete it and run
> > > Lilypond it comes back, but it is always a blank file. And Lilypond always 
> > > takes 30 seconds creating this file before compiling. 
> > >         
> > > This is very very annoying. 
> > Yes, there is a problem with per-user fontconfig caches on windows. We 
> > decided not to fix it, since for a small font directory, it doesn't have 
> > a big impact.
> >
> > Here is a workaround:
> >
> >   - run the following in the CMD command shell
> >
> >     cd C:\WINDOWS
> >     attrib -S -R FONTS
> >     cd FONTS
> >     "C:\Program files\LilyPond\usr\bin\fc-cache.exe" .
> >     cd ..
> >     attrib +S +R FONTS
> >
> > this procedure should leave a 200k fonts.cache-1 file in the Fonts 
> > subdirectory.

> That didn't help; for starters I get a blank fonts.cache-1 file when

please be more specific:

 - did fc-cache return directly?
 - where did the cache-1 file appear?

> running that command, 

2nd workaround: plonk

  http://lilypond.org/~hanwen/fonts.cache-1

into windows\fonts\


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