Re: DOS-based Windows users, please test

[Paul Scott]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> Paul Scott writes:
>  
>
> > A side point is that the PATH  environment should be modified by the
> > install so that lilypond can be found from the command line (since MS
> > has such a weak filesystem hierarchy).
> >    
> That would only be for users who run lilypond from the command line;
>  
Yes.

> they will know how to do that (or use Cygwin anyway?).
>  
But they shouldn't have to type the complete path even though with 
either DOSKey in pre NT or command history in NT -> XP they wouldn't 
necessarily have to type it often.

> > I will continue working on the batch file.
> >    
> It would be nice to get lilypond to produce PDFs, even if that means
> using a bat wrapper, so that we may shed some more light in this
> matter.  I would much rather get identification of the problem (ie,
> use a fake LILYPOND_VERBOSE, and a fake gs.bat that prints the value
> of the needed environment variables that lilypond sets.)
>  
I'll look at this.

> Note that versions until 2.5.28-1 (from http://lilypond.org/mingw/)
> used bat wrappers.  It proved however, that noone could get the
> quoting (the double quotes) right for all flavours of windows.  For
> that and out of space errors, we decided not to use bat wrappers
> anymore.  We could use a guile wrapper, if need must be.
>  
I meant my help to be for diagnostic purposes anyway.  I'm not close 
enough to the rest of the install, etc. process to give a complete 
solution.  I also don't have enough access to the W98 machine.

More soon,

Paul