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Re: -dgui option dropped in 2.24 - how to stop the black box on Windows


From: Jonas Hahnfeld
Subject: Re: -dgui option dropped in 2.24 - how to stop the black box on Windows now?
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 20:50:10 +0200
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On Mon, 2023-04-03 at 11:19 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-04-02 at 11:54 -0700, Aaron Hill wrote:
> > I have never looked at Denemo or its source code, so what I am going
> > to  say might not be so trivially applicable. 
> 
> You were quite right to be doubtful - Denemo tries to off-load the
> target machine dependent stuff onto libraries, in this case glib which
> provides the routine to spawn a process, and sadly does not expose the
> CREATE_NO_WINDOW part of the Win32 API.

This shouldn't be needed: g_spawn_sync internally uses a helper
executable that should take care exactly of this aspect. LilyPond uses
it internally to call Ghostscript.

> For now I'll disable the autocompilation option for Windows with
> LilyPond 2.24. Is there any chance the developers might re-instate
> the lilypond-windows.exe?

I wouldn't be a fan, really, because it would mean shipping the same
(statically linked) executable twice...

Jonas
> 

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