Re: Windows GUI

[Ramana Kumar]

> (minor correction: these projects are implementations of GNU, not Linux
> emulators. They require that you rebuild packages, and they do not offer
> binary compatibility between platforms. Porting denemo to mingw or cygwin is
> probably a difficult task)
>
I assumed you would be compiling denemo from source ... which should
be doable on cygwin or mingw shouldn't it ? it shouldn't be any harder
than compiling denemo on some other gnu/linux once you've got mingw or
cygwin set up correctly.

On 2/8/06, Erik Sandberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 February 2006 22.22, Ramana Kumar wrote:
> > In my opinion there currently don't exist any particularly good GUIs
> > for lilypond (unless you count your text editor!), simply because text
> > editing is a lot more powerful...
> > ...but I understand that having a GUI is sometimes very desireable.
> >
> > Apart from Lilycomp, the only other program I know about is Denemo. I
> > guess this is one of the ones you looked at that was not for Windows
> > but for Linux.
> >
> > Fortunately, you don't actually need to install Linux to use Denemo
> > (although if you were thinking about doing it, I'd recommend
> > installing Linux anyway). Have a look at www.mingw.org and
> > www.cygwin.com for some ways to emulate Linux on Windows. Either one
> > would (I believe) allow you to run Denemo on Windows (through
> > emulation).
>
> (minor correction: these projects are implementations of GNU, not Linux
> emulators. They require that you rebuild packages, and they do not offer
> binary compatibility between platforms. Porting denemo to mingw or cygwin is
> probably a difficult task)
>
> So the _easiest_ solution is probably to install linux. Either you can try
> demudi (http://demudi.agnula.org/), which ships with lots of music software
> out-of-the-box, or Ubuntu (ubuntulinux.com) which is more mainstream and
> contains a newer version of lilypond.
>
> Another way is to find a GUI for windows which exports MIDI or MusicXML files,
> and then to import those to lilypond. In this case, you'll have to post-edit
> the resulting .ly file slightly; some people consider this extra work more
> time-consuming than entering the piece from scratch.
>
> --
> Erik
>