Re: DOS-based Windows users, please test

[Brynne and Russ Jorgensen]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Paul Scott writes:
>
>
> > > Please send failure/success reports for your flavour of windows here.
> >
> > MS Windows 98SE using the 2.6.2-1 upgrade:
> >
> > Double-clicking on the .ly file or right-clicking and choosing
> > "Generate PDF"
> > No PDF.
> > A new file - nul$ which contains "GNU LilyPond 2.6.1
> >
> > Executing <path-to-lilypond>\lilypond --pdf test2.ly from a DOS prompt
> > seems to give the same result.
>
>
> Thanks for testing.  Too bad it doesn't work.  Someone will have to
> put some effort into windows 98.  I'm really wondering if this works
> on windows me...
>
> Jan.

Jan,

Sorry I didn't get this tested sooner, but I have now tried it, and I 
get the same results as Paul - I get no PDF file (I do get a PS file), 
but I do get a new file called 'nul$' that contains "GNU LilyPond 
2.6.1".  Sigh.

I still haven't been able to successfully build lilypond, so I'm a bit 
hamstrung on testing other possibilities (I kept getting hung up on 
needing cygwin version of a tool - like python - at one point, but a 
pure win32 version at other points.  I'm now switching to mingw to see 
if that helps...).

I know there is a solution to win-me because I'm using a workaround that 
actually does produce PDF files.  The question is how elegant or kludgy 
the solution ends up being.  My work-around is to use cygwin bash to run 
a shell script that runs lilypond.exe with stdout redirected to a file. 
 So, since it didn't work to have lilypond redirect its own stdout, we 
might end up writing a little front-end program that does the 
redirection and then spawns lilypond.

Sorry again for not getting this tested sooner.  I'll let you know 
if/when I am able to build lilypond and experiment with other solutions...

        -Russ