Re: Installation of Lilypond 2.24.0 on a Windows 11 computer

[Paul Hodges]

What directory have you unpacked the LilyPond directory to?  I have put it into C:\Program Files (which is where Frescobaldi also gets installed) and I have no such problem.

It may be that if you have LilyPond and Frescobaldi in different places, then something may not get the permissions it expects, but that's just a hunch.

Paul

From: <tommy_strandberg@web.de>
To: <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: 07/02/2023 16:00
Subject: Installation of Lilypond 2.24.0 on a Windows 11 computer

Hi,

 

I’m a little annoyed over problems in getting Lilypond 2.24.0 properly running on my computer.  My previous installation was Lilypond 2.22.2 together with Frescobaldi 3.2.  Everything worked fine and the main reason for switching to 2.24 was new features making score-writing simpler.

 

Now, Lilypond 2.22.2was installed using a Windows installer.  For Lilypond 2.24.0 and above, there appears to be no installer anymore or, at least, I’ve not found any anywhere.  Instead, the handbook explains how to “install” the new version by uncompress them on a suitable place on your computer and link them to Frescobaldi under Preferences.  This I’ve done without problem and in principle Lilypond 2.24.0 works including the new features. But when compiling a score, I now get error messages “Fontconfig error: No writable cache directories”