Re: development on windows

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Friday, June 05, 2009 11:19 AM


> There's a surprising amount of interest in contributing to
> LilyPond from Windows machines.  (err, I mean, from people *with*
> Windows machines, not from the actual machines themselves)
>
> As I understand it, people with Windows can:
> - run GUB

I haven't tried - I didn't realise this was possible.
Has anyone done it?

> - get the sources with git

Tick

> - compile the docs without examples by running texi2html manually

Tick, but this is often screwed up if the version
number in snippets is bumped by an LSR update, since
this means they can no longer be compiled with the
latest released version.

> - compile the docs with GUB

Must try this ...

> - write docstrings, fix bugs, and add new features to .scm files

Tick

> However, they cannot:
> - compile lilypond

Correct

> - write bugfixes, new features, and "code janitor" C++ files

> Is the above correct?  If so, is there any hope of changing the
> cannot-compile status?  In particular,
> - does anybody feel like making cygwin packages for the missing
>  software?
> - does anybody have VMware (commercial version) and feel like
>  making a small Linux installation which has all the required
>  software?  Potential contributors would be able to run this
>  in the free VMware version.
> - does anybody feel like making shell accounts available for
>  windows users?  (I'm not at all certain how many windows
>  contributors would feel comfortable using such a system, but
>  I include it here for correctness)

I can't commit to helping with this in the foreseeable
future, I'm afraid.

> I suspect that the answer to the above questions is "no", so I'll
> write the CG / new website  to make this clear.  But it's worth
> checking first.
>
> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
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