Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3F4B4689.1010108@s3.kth.se> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:37:45 +0200 From: Mats Bengtsson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jpff AT codemist DOT co DOT uk Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, lilypond-user AT gnu DOT org Subject: Re: RedHat7.3 and Windows References: <9601-Thu21Aug2003144938+0100-jpff AT codemist DOT co DOT uk> <3F49ED88 DOT 1030203 AT s3 DOT kth DOT se> <4518-Mon25Aug2003121909+0100-jpff AT codemist DOT co DOT uk> <87u185yg38 DOT fsf AT peder DOT flower> <41-Mon25Aug2003155127+0100-jpff AT codemist DOT co DOT uk> <87ekz8q3wk DOT fsf AT peder DOT flower> <1191-Tue26Aug2003093119+0100-jpff AT codemist DOT co DOT uk> In-Reply-To: <1191-Tue26Aug2003093119+0100-jpff@codemist.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit jpff AT codemist DOT co DOT uk wrote: >>>>>>"Jan" == Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > > > >> I do not want to know how cygwin works; i have used it in the past > >> without any detailed knowledge. > > Jan> Well, lilypond is not different from any other Cygwin package. Just > Jan> use Cygwin as you did in the past. > > which bring us back to the original question; is there a working > version of Lilypond that is available for Windows? I am suspecting > that the answer is no, unless you have all kinds of additional > facilities like direct net connection. You only need the net connection for downloading the Cygwin packages needed in the installation. Once you have them on local disk or a CD, you can run the installation without any network connection. In principle it's very easy also if you only have access to a Linux computer with a CD burner or file sharing possibilities to your windows machine, just copy the necessary files from any Cygwin mirror (preserving the directory structure). The main practical problem is to selectively download only the packages you need, since a full copy may be to large to handle. Unfortunately I'm running a partly experimental installation at the moment, so it's no use to copy my list of packages, but the list of packages found at the end of http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2003-08/txt00001.txt (under the title "Cygwin Package Information") should be recent enough to be relevant. /Mats -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/