RE: Installation of Lilypond 2.24.0 on a Windows 11 computer

[tommy_strandberg]

Hi Jean,

As I said yesterday, it's working now but I've run the FC_DEBUG you asked for 
yesterday, see attachment 
"Lilypond2240_isRunningOK_programInHomeDirectory.txt".  If it for some reason 
will start generating the errors I had the last week, I will forward the debug 
log again.

The reason I started to use 2.24.0 was not that 2.22.2 was not working but due 
to some new features in 2.24.  The work I'm currently engraving consist of 
about 100 files which I had to convert due to the change of syntax in 2.24.  To 
test the conversion success, I generated a miniscore in 2.22.2 which I then 
converted to 2.24.0.  Apart from the "Fontconfig error: No writable cache 
directories errors", which aren’t there anymore, I also get a number of other 
errors, i.e. "programming error: cyclic dependency: calculation-in-progress 
encountered for VerticalAxisGroup.adjacent-pure-heights
continuing, cross fingers"

If I run exactly the same file again but in 2.22.2, I don't get these errors so 
something must have changed or was not converted at all or incorrectly.  I 
attach the log for your information, I,e, 
"Score_ProgrammingError_CyclicDependencyWith2240 .txt", but this is something I 
need to look at now.

Cheers
Tommy




-----Original Message-----
From: Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 7:43 PM
To: tommy_strandberg@web.de; 'Paul Hodges' <pwh@cassland.org>; 
lilypond-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installation of Lilypond 2.24.0 on a Windows 11 computer

On 07/02/2023 19:25, tommy_strandberg@web.de wrote:
>  2. The handbook is very misleading as it states ( 
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/learning/graphical-setup-under-windows
>  
> <https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/learning/graphical-setup-under-windows>)
>     “Place the resulting directory lilypond-x.y.z-mingw-x86_64 in a permanent 
> location; the actual folder doesn’t matter; you just need to put it somewhere 
> you won’t move it afterwards. For example, you could choose your home folder.”
> 
> With the experience of today and my problems, this seems to be 
> completely wrong and should be updated.



I disagree. There is no obvious reason why it should be so.

That section from the manual was written by me, and as the screenshots show, I 
tested the installation procedure step by step, and it worked.
I definitely did not install anything into C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files 
(x86) and I would recommend against doing so (there is a reason why it requires 
admin rights). You are also the first one to report this problem, two months 
after the release of version 2.24.0, which means it is working for other people.

I don't know if the install location has anything to do with it, but LilyPond 
is supposed to work while installed anywhere. If it doesn't, there is a bug 
either in LilyPond, or in Fontconfig (the library LilyPond uses to search 
fonts), or in your setup (it could have been messed up by a completely 
different application), but not in the documentation.

Which brings me back to the question about FC_DEBUG.

Regards,
Jean

Lilypond2240_isRunningOK_programInHomeDirectory.txt
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Score_ProgrammingError_CyclicDependencyWith2240.txt
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