Re: GUB newbie question

[Jacques Menu]

Hello Marco,

Thanks for the information, and a happy new year 2020!

JM

> Le 28 déc. 2019 à 10:26, Marco Atzeri <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Am 27.12.2019 um 10:32 schrieb Jacques Menu:
>>> Le 26 déc. 2019 à 23:42, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> a écrit :
>>> 
>>> On 12/26/19, 3:39 PM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of Jacques Menu" 
>>> <lilypond-devel-bounces+c_sorensen=address@hidden on behalf of 
>>> address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>>    What is is exactly that fails when building LilyPond on those various 
>>> OSes? Dependencies of some kind, or basic compilation problems of Lily’s 
>>> code base?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It's been too long since I tried it for me to give you a really good 
>>> answer.  Most likely the difficulty was getting appropriate versions of the 
>>> dependencies installed.
>>> 
>>> If you can get all the dependencies installed properly, then the 
>>> compilation process will work, because it's all automated.
>>> 
>>> Carl
>> Which dependencies are the most critical in this respect?
>> JM
> 
> building on cygwin requires these dependencies
> 
> guile1.8-1.8.8-3
> libfontconfig1-2.13.1-1
> libfreetype6-2.9.1-1
> libgcc1-7.4.0-1
> libglib2.0_0-2.54.3-1
> libguile17-1.8.8-3
> libintl8-0.19.8.1-2
> libpango1.0_0-1.40.14-1
> libstdc++6-7.4.0-1
> python2-2.7.16-1
> 
> so you need at least the devel version of the packages
> (or equivalent names on your distribution)
> 
> libguile1.8-devel
> libfontconfig-devel
> libfreetype-devel
> libglib2.0-devel
> libintl-devel
> libpango1.0-devel
> 
> 
> plus of course gcc compiler, automake, autoconf.
> Building documentation may need some more but as
> it is really time consuming and the documentation
> is already available in a separate package you can skip it.