INSTALL - compiling and installing GNU LilyPond
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1 Compilation
  1.1 Overview of compiling
  1.2 Requirements
    1.2.1 Requirements for running LilyPond
    1.2.2 Requirements for compiling LilyPond
      Fedora
      Linux Mint
      OpenSUSE
      Ubuntu
      Other
    1.2.3 Requirements for building documentation
  1.3 Getting the source code
  1.4 Configuring ‘make’
    1.4.1 Running ‘./autogen.sh’
    1.4.2 Running ‘../configure’
      Configuration options
      Checking build dependencies
      Configuring target directories
  1.5 Compiling LilyPond
    1.5.1 Using ‘make’
    1.5.2 Saving time with the ‘-j’ option
    1.5.3 Useful ‘make’ variables
  1.6 Post-compilation options
    1.6.1 Installing LilyPond from a local build
    1.6.2 Generating documentation
      Documentation editor’s edit/compile cycle
      Building documentation
      Building a single document
      Saving time with ‘CPU_COUNT’
      Installing documentation
      Building documentation without compiling
    1.6.3 Testing LilyPond binary
  1.7 Problems
    Compiling on MacOS X
    FreeBSD
    International fonts
    Using lilypond python libraries
  1.8 Concurrent stable and development versions
  1.9 Build system
1 Compilation
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1.1 Overview of compiling
=========================

Compiling LilyPond from source is an involved process, and is only
recommended for developers and packagers.  Typical program users are
instead encouraged to obtain the program from a package manager (on
Unix) or by downloading a precompiled binary configured for a specific
operating system.  Pre-compiled binaries are available on the *note
(lilypond-web)Download:: page.

   Compiling LilyPond from source is necessary if you want to build,
install, or test your own version of the program.

   A successful compile can also be used to generate and install the
documentation, incorporating any changes you may have made.  However, a
successful compile is not a requirement for generating the
documentation.  The documentation can be built using a Git repository in
conjunction with a locally installed copy of the program.  For more
information, see *note Building documentation without compiling::.

   Attempts to compile LilyPond natively on Windows have been
unsuccessful, though a workaround is available (see *note
(lilypond-contributor)LilyDev::).

1.2 Requirements
================

1.2.1 Requirements for running LilyPond
---------------------------------------

This section contains the list of separate software packages that are
required to run LilyPond.

   • DejaVu fonts (http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/) These are normally
     installed by default.

   • FontConfig (http://www.fontconfig.org/) Use version 2.4.0 or newer.

   • Freetype (http://www.freetype.org/) Use version 2.3.9 or newer.

   • Ghostscript (http://www.ghostscript.com) Use version 9.03 or newer.

   • Guile (http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html) Use version
     1.8.8.  It is possible to build LilyPond with version 2.X of Guile
     and most features will work, but this is not officially supported
     (yet).  In particular, performance and especially the startup time
     will be worse.

   • Pango (http://www.pango.org/) Use version 1.36 or newer.

   • Python (http://www.python.org) Use version 3.5 or newer.

   • International fonts.  For example:

     Fedora:

          fonts-arabic
          fonts-hebrew
          fonts-ja
          fonts-xorg-truetype
          taipeifonts
          ttfonts-ja
          ttfonts-zh_CN

     Debian based distributions:

          emacs-intl-fonts
          fonts-ipafont-gothic
          fonts-ipafont-mincho
          xfonts-bolkhov-75dpi
          xfonts-cronyx-75dpi
          xfonts-cronyx-100dpi
          xfonts-intl-.*

     These are normally installed by default and are required only to
     create music with international text or lyrics.

1.2.2 Requirements for compiling LilyPond
-----------------------------------------

This section contains instructions on how to quickly and easily get all
the software packages required to build LilyPond.

   Most of the more popular Linux distributions only require a few
simple commands to download all the software needed.  For others, there
is an explicit list of all the individual packages (as well as where to
get them from) for those that are not already included in your
distributions’ own repositories.

Fedora
......

The following instructions were tested on ‘Fedora’ versions 22 & 23 and
will download all the software required to both compile LilyPond and
build the documentation.

   • Download and install all the LilyPond build-dependencies
     (approximately 700MB);

          sudo dnf builddep lilypond --nogpgcheck

   • Download and install additional ‘build’ tools required for
     compiling;

          sudo dnf install autoconf gcc-c++

   • Download ‘texi2html 1.82’ directly from:
     <http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/texi2html/texi2html-1.82.tar.gz>;

     ‘texi2html’ is only required if you intend to compile LilyPond’s
     own documentation (e.g.  to help with any document writing).  The
     version available in the Fedora repositories is too new and will
     not work.  Extract the files into an appropriate location and then
     run the commands;

          ./configure
          make
          sudo make install

     This should install ‘texi2html 1.82’ into ‘/usr/local/bin’, which
     will normally take priority over ‘/usr/bin’ where the later,
     pre-installed versions gets put.  Now verify that your operating
     system is able to see the correct version of ‘texi2html’.

          texi2html --version

   • Although not ‘required’ to compile LilyPond, if you intend to
     contribute to LilyPond (codebase or help improve the documentation)
     then it is recommended that you also need to install ‘git’.

          sudo dnf install git

     Also see *note (lilypond-contributor)Working with source code::.

          Note: By default, when building LilyPond’s documentation,
          ‘pdfTeX’ is be used.  However ligatures (fi, fl, ff etc.)  may
          not be printed in the PDF output.  In this case XeTeX can be
          used instead.  Download and install the ‘texlive-xetex’
          package.

               sudo dnf install texlive-xetex

          The scripts used to build the LilyPond documentation will use
          ‘XeTeX’ instead of ‘pdfTeX’ to generate the PDF documents if
          it is available.  No additional configuration is required.

Linux Mint
..........

The following instructions were tested on ‘Linux Mint 17.1’ and ‘LMDE -
Betsy’ and will download all the software required to both compile
LilyPond and build the documentation..

   • Enable the _sources_ repository;

       1. Using the _Software Sources_ GUI (located under
          _Administration_).

       2. Select _Official Repositories_.

       3. Check the _Enable source code repositories_ box under the
          _Source Code_ section.

       4. Click the _Update the cache_ button and when it has completed,
          close the _Software Sources_ GUI.

   • Download and install all the LilyPond build-dependencies
     (approximately 200MB);

          sudo apt-get build-dep lilypond

   • Download and install additional ‘build’ tools required for
     compiling;

          sudo apt-get install autoconf fonts-texgyre texlive-lang-cyrillic

   • Although not ‘required’ to compile LilyPond, if you intend to
     contribute to LilyPond (codebase or help improve the documentation)
     then it is recommended that you also need to install ‘git’.

          sudo apt-get install git

     Also see *note (lilypond-contributor)Working with source code::.

          Note: By default, when building LilyPond’s documentation,
          ‘pdfTeX’ is be used.  However ligatures (fi, fl, ff etc.)  may
          not be printed in the PDF output.  In this case XeTeX can be
          used instead.  Download and install the ‘texlive-xetex’
          package.

               sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex

          The scripts used to build the LilyPond documentation will use
          ‘XeTex’ instead of ‘pdfTex’ to generate the PDF documents if
          it is available.  No additional configuration is required.

OpenSUSE
........

The following instructions were tested on ‘OpenSUSE 13.2’ and will
download all the software required to both compile LilyPond and build
the documentation.

   • Add the _sources_ repository;

          sudo zypper addrepo -f \
          "http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/13.2/repo/oss/" sources

   • Download and install all the LilyPond build-dependencies
     (approximately 680MB);

          sudo zypper source-install lilypond

   • Download and install additional ‘build’ tools required for
     compiling;

          sudo zypper install make

   • Although not ‘required’ to compile LilyPond, if you intend to
     contribute to LilyPond (codebase or help improve the documentation)
     then it is recommended that you also need to install ‘git’.

          sudo zypper install git

     Also see *note (lilypond-contributor)Working with source code::.

          Note: By default, when building LilyPond’s documentation,
          ‘pdfTeX’ is be used.  However ligatures (fi, fl, ff etc.)  may
          not be printed in the PDF output.  In this case XeTeX can be
          used instead.  Download and install the ‘texlive-xetex’
          package.

               sudo zypper install texlive-xetex

          The scripts used to build the LilyPond documentation will use
          ‘XeTex’ instead of ‘pdfTex’ to generate the PDF documents if
          it is available.  No additional configuration is required.

Ubuntu
......

The following commands were tested on Ubuntu versions ‘14.04 LTS’,
‘14.10’ and ‘15.04’ and will download all the software required to both
compile LilyPond and build the documentation.

   • Download and install all the LilyPond build-dependencies
     (approximately 200MB);

          sudo apt-get build-dep lilypond

   • Download and install additional ‘build’ tools required for
     compiling;

          sudo apt-get install autoconf fonts-texgyre texlive-lang-cyrillic

   • Although not ‘required’ to compile LilyPond, if you intend to
     contribute to LilyPond (codebase or help improve the documentation)
     then it is recommended that you also need to install ‘git’.

          sudo apt-get install git

     Also see *note (lilypond-contributor)Working with source code::.

          Note: By default, when building LilyPond’s documentation,
          ‘pdfTeX’ is be used.  However ligatures (fi, fl, ff etc.)  may
          not be printed in the PDF output.  In this case XeTeX can be
          used instead.  Download and install the ‘texlive-xetex’
          package.

               sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex

          The scripts used to build the LilyPond documentation will use
          ‘XeTex’ instead of ‘pdfTex’ to generate the PDF documents if
          it is available.  No additional configuration is required.

Other
.....

The following individual software packages are required just to compile
LilyPond.

   • GNU Autoconf (http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf)

   • GNU Bison (http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/)

     Use version 2.4.1 or newer.

   • Compiler with support for C++11

     Version 4.8.5 or newer of the GNU Compiler Collection
     (https://gcc.gnu.org/) and version 3.5 or newer of Clang
     (https://clang.llvm.org/) should work.

   • Flex (https://github.com/westes/flex)

     Use version 2.5.29 or newer.

   • FontForge (https://fontforge.org/)

     Use version 20120731 or newer with enabled scripting using
     Python 3; it must also be compiled with the ‘--enable-double’
     switch, else this can lead to inaccurate intersection calculations
     which end up with poorly-rendered glyphs in the output.

   • GNU gettext (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html)

     Use version 0.17 or newer.

   • GNU Make (http://www.gnu.org/software/make/)

     Use version 3.78 or newer.

   • MetaFont (http://metafont.tutorial.free.fr/)

     The ‘mf-nowin’, ‘mf’, ‘mfw’ or ‘mfont’ binaries are usually
     packaged along with TeX (http://www.latex-project.org/ftp.html).

   • MetaPost (http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/MetaPost.html)

     The ‘mpost’ binary is also usually packaged with TeX
     (http://www.latex-project.org/ftp.html).

   • Perl (http://www.perl.org/)

   • Texinfo (http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/)

     Use version 6.1 or newer.

   • Type 1 utilities (http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/type/#t1utils)

     Use version 1.33 or newer.

   • Cyrillic fonts (https://www.ctan.org/pkg/cyrillic?lang=en)

     Often packaged in repositories as ‘texlive-lang-cyrillic’.

   • TeX Gyre ‘OTF’ font packages.  As of LilyPond version 2.19.26, the
     previous default serif, san serif and monospace fonts now use Tex
     Gyre’s _Schola_, _Heros_ and _Cursor_ fonts respectively.  Also See
     *note (lilypond-notation)Fonts::.

     Some distributions do not always provide ‘OTF’ font files in the
     Tex Gyre packages from their repositories.  Use the command
     ‘fc-list | grep texgyre’ to list the fonts available to your system
     and check that the appropriate ‘*.otf’ files are reported.  If they
     are not then download and manually extract the ‘OTF’ files to
     either your local ‘~/.fonts/’ directory or use the ‘configure’
     command and the ‘--with-texgyre-dir=/path_to_otf_files/’ option.

     The following font families are required:

     Schola (http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/schola),
     Heros (http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/heros)
     and Cursor
     (http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/cursor).

1.2.3 Requirements for building documentation
---------------------------------------------

The entire set of documentation for the most current build of LilyPond
is available online at
<https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/web/development>, but you
can also build them locally from the source code.  This process requires
some additional tools and packages.

          Note: If the instructions for one of the previously listed
          Linux in the previous section (*note
          (lilypond-contributor)Requirements for compiling LilyPond::)
          have been used, then the following can be ignored as the
          software should already be installed.

   • Everything listed in *note Requirements for compiling LilyPond::

   • ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/)

   • gzip (http://gzip.org/)

   • rsync (http://rsync.samba.org/)

   • Texi2HTML (http://www.nongnu.org/texi2html/)

     Use version 1.82.  Later versions might work, but produce
     suboptimal results.

     Download ‘texi2html 1.82’ directly from:
     <http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/texi2html/texi2html-1.82.tar.gz>;

     Extract the files into an appropriate location and then run the
     commands;

          ./configure
          make
          sudo make install

     Now verify that your operating system is able to see the correct
     version of ‘texi2html’.

          texi2html --version

   • Fonts required to build the documentation in addition to those
     required to run LilyPond:

          gsfonts
          fonts-linuxlibertine
          fonts-liberation
          fonts-dejavu
          fonts-freefont-otf
          ttf-bitstream-vera
          texlive-fonts-recommended
          ttf-xfree86-nonfree

          Note: By default, when building LilyPond’s documentation,
          ‘pdfTeX’ is be used.  However ligatures (fi, fl, ff etc.)  may
          not be printed in the PDF output.  In this case XeTeX can be
          used instead.  Download and install the ‘texlive-xetex’
          package.  The scripts used to build the LilyPond documentation
          will use ‘XeTex’ instead of ‘pdfTex’ to generate the PDF
          documents if it is available.  No additional configuration is
          required.

1.3 Getting the source code
===========================

Downloading the Git repository
------------------------------

In general, developers compile LilyPond from within a local Git
repository.  Setting up a local Git repository is explained in *note
(lilypond-contributor)Starting with Git::.

Downloading a source tarball
----------------------------

Packagers are encouraged to use source tarballs for compiling.

   The tarball for the latest stable release is available on the *note
(lilypond-web)Source:: page.

The latest source code snapshot
(http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=snapshot) is also
available as a tarball from the GNU Savannah Git server.

All tagged releases (including legacy stable versions and the most
recent development release) are available here:

     <https://lilypond.org/download/source/>

   Download the tarball to your ‘~/src/’ directory, or some other
appropriate place.

          Note: Be careful where you unpack the tarball!  Any
          subdirectories of the current folder named ‘lilypond/’ or
          ‘lilypond-X.Y.Z/’ (where X.Y.Z is the release number) will be
          overwritten if there is a name clash with the tarball.

   Unpack the tarball with this command:

     tar -xzf lilypond-X.Y.Z.tar.gz

   This creates a subdirectory within the current directory called
‘lilypond-X.Y.Z/’.  Once unpacked, the source files occupy about 40 MB
of disk space.

   Windows users wanting to look at the source code may have to download
and install the free-software 7zip archiver (http://www.7-zip.org) to
extract the tarball.

1.4 Configuring ‘make’
======================

1.4.1 Running ‘./autogen.sh’
----------------------------

After you unpack the tarball (or download the Git repository), the
contents of your top source directory should be similar to the current
source tree listed at
<http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=tree>.

   Next, you need to create the generated files; enter the following
command from your top source directory:

     ./autogen.sh --noconfigure

   This will generate a number of files and directories to aid
configuration, such as ‘configure’, ‘README.txt’, etc.

   Next, create the build directory with:

     mkdir build/
     cd build/

   We heavily recommend building lilypond inside a separate directory
with this method.

1.4.2 Running ‘../configure’
----------------------------

Configuration options
.....................

          Note: make sure that you are in the ‘build/’ subdirectory of
          your source tree.

   The ‘../configure’ command (generated by ‘./autogen.sh’) provides
many options for configuring ‘make’.  To see them all, run:

     ../configure --help

Checking build dependencies
...........................

          Note: make sure that you are in the ‘build/’ subdirectory of
          your source tree.

   When ‘../configure’ is run without any arguments, it will check to
make sure your system has everything required for compilation:

     ../configure

   If any build dependency is missing, ‘../configure’ will return with:

     ERROR: Please install required programs:  FOO

   The following message is issued if you are missing programs that are
only needed for building the documentation:

     WARNING: Please consider installing optional programs:  BAR

   If you intend to build the documentation locally, you will need to
install or update these programs accordingly.

          Note: ‘../configure’ may fail to issue warnings for certain
          documentation build requirements that are not met.  If you
          experience problems when building the documentation, you may
          need to do a manual check of *note Requirements for building
          documentation::.

Configuring target directories
..............................

          Note: make sure that you are in the ‘build/’ subdirectory of
          your source tree.

   If you intend to use your local build to install a local copy of the
program, you will probably want to configure the installation directory.
Here are the relevant lines taken from the output of
‘../configure --help’:

     By default, ‘‘make install’’ will install all the files in
     ‘/usr/local/bin’, ‘/usr/local/lib’ etc.  You can specify an
     installation prefix other than ‘/usr/local’ using ‘‘--prefix’’, for
     instance ‘‘--prefix=$HOME’’.

   A typical installation prefix is ‘$HOME/usr’:

     ../configure --prefix=$HOME/usr

   Note that if you plan to install a local build on a system where you
do not have root privileges, you will need to do something like this
anyway—‘make install’ will only succeed if the installation prefix
points to a directory where you have write permission (such as your home
directory).  The installation directory will be automatically created if
necessary.

   The location of the ‘lilypond’ command installed by this process will
be ‘PREFIX/bin/lilypond’; you may want to add ‘PREFIX/bin/’ to your
‘$PATH’ if it is not already included.

   It is also possible to specify separate installation directories for
different types of program files.  See the full output of
‘../configure --help’ for more information.

   If you encounter any problems, please see *note Problems::.

1.5 Compiling LilyPond
======================

1.5.1 Using ‘make’
------------------

          Note: make sure that you are in the ‘build/’ subdirectory of
          your source tree.

   LilyPond is compiled with the ‘make’ command.  Assuming ‘make’ is
configured properly, you can simply run:

     make

   ‘make’ is short for ‘make all’.  To view a list of ‘make’ targets,
run:

     make help

   TODO: Describe what ‘make’ actually does.


See also
........

   *note Generating documentation:: provides more info on the ‘make’
targets used to build the LilyPond documentation.

1.5.2 Saving time with the ‘-j’ option
--------------------------------------

If your system has multiple CPUs, you can speed up compilation by adding
‘-jX’ to the ‘make’ command, where ‘X’ is one more than the number of
cores you have.  For example, a typical Core2Duo machine would use:

     make -j3

   If you get errors using the ‘-j’ option, and ‘make’ succeeds without
it, try lowering the ‘X’ value.

   Because multiple jobs run in parallel when ‘-j’ is used, it can be
difficult to determine the source of an error when one occurs.  In that
case, running ‘make’ without the ‘-j’ is advised.

1.5.3 Useful ‘make’ variables
-----------------------------

‘make’ normally echoes each command, but LilyPond makefiles suppress
this behavior by default.  The goal is to show progress without hiding
warnings and errors in the noise of long commands.

   To enable echoing commands, and to increase the verbosity of some of
the commands, set ‘VERBOSE=1’ on the command line or in ‘local.make’ at
the top of the build tree.

   Similarly, to reduce the verbosity, set ‘SILENT=1’.  Because of the
way these options are implemented, ‘make -s’ does not serve this
purpose.

1.6 Post-compilation options
============================

1.6.1 Installing LilyPond from a local build
--------------------------------------------

If you configured ‘make’ to install your local build in a directory
where you normally have write permission (such as your home directory),
and you have compiled LilyPond by running ‘make’, you can install the
program in your target directory by running:

     make install

   If instead, your installation directory is not one that you can
normally write to (such as the default ‘/usr/local/’, which typically is
only writeable by the superuser), you will need to temporarily become
the superuser when running ‘make install’:

     sudo make install

or...

     su -c 'make install'

   If you don’t have superuser privileges, then you need to configure
the installation directory to one that you can write to, and then
re-install.  See *note Configuring target directories::.

1.6.2 Generating documentation
------------------------------

Documentation editor’s edit/compile cycle
.........................................

To work on a manual, do the following

   • Build lilypond itself

          make [-jX]

   • Then build the specific manual to work on, and inspect:

          _## edit source files, then..._
          make CPU_COUNT=X -C Documentation out=www out-www/LANGUAGE/MYMANUAL.pdf

          _## if you prefer checking HTML files_
          make CPU_COUNT=X -C Documentation out=www out-www/LANGUAGE/MYMANUAL/index.html

   • To remove compiled documentation from your system, use
     ‘make doc-clean’ in the toplevel build directory.

Building documentation
......................

After a successful compile (using ‘make’), the documentation can be
built by issuing:

     make doc

   or, to build only the PDF documentation and not the HTML,

     make -C Documentation out=www pdf

          Note: The first time you run ‘make doc’, the process can
          easily take an hour or more with not much output on the
          command line.

   After this initial build, ‘make doc’ only makes changes to the
documentation where needed, so it may only take a minute or two to test
changes if the documentation is already built.

   If ‘make doc’ succeeds, the HTML documentation tree is available in
‘out-www/offline-root/’, and can be browsed locally.  The documentation
can also be inspected in the ‘Documentation/out-www’ subdirectory.

   ‘make doc’ sends the output from most of the compilation to logfiles.
If the build fails for any reason, it should print the name of a
logfile, explaining what failed.

   ‘make doc’ compiles the documents for all languages.  To save some
compile time, the English language documents can be compiled on their
own with:

     make LANGS='en' doc

Similarly, it is possible to compile a subset of the translated
documentation by specifying their language codes on the command line.
For example, the French and German translations are compiled with:

     make LANGS='de fr' doc

Compilation of documentation in Info format with images can be done
separately by issuing:

     make info

An issue when switching branches between master and translation is the
appearance/disappearance of translated versions of some manuals.  If you
see such a warning from make:

     No rule to make target `X', needed by `Y'

Your best bet is to delete the file Y.dep and to try again.

Building a single document
..........................

It’s possible to build a single document.  For example, to rebuild only
‘contributor.pdf’, do the following:

     cd build/
     cd Documentation/
     touch ../../Documentation/en/contributor.texi
     make out=www out-www/en/contributor.pdf

   If you are only working on a single document, test-building it in
this way can give substantial time savings - recreating
‘contributor.pdf’, for example, takes a matter of seconds.

Saving time with ‘CPU_COUNT’
............................

The most time consuming task for building the documentation is running
LilyPond to build images of music, and there cannot be several
simultaneously running ‘lilypond-book’ instances, so the ‘-j’ ‘make’
option does not significantly speed up the build process.  To help speed
it up, the makefile variable ‘CPU_COUNT’ may be set in ‘local.make’ or
on the command line to the number of ‘.ly’ files that LilyPond should
process simultaneously, e.g.  on a dual core machine:

     make -j2 CPU_COUNT=2 doc

The recommended value of ‘CPU_COUNT’ is the number of cores.  If the
build runs into out-of-memory problems, use a lower number.

Installing documentation
........................

The HTML, PDF and if available Info files can be installed into the
standard documentation path by issuing

     make install-doc

This also installs Info documentation with images.  The final
installation of Info documentation (integrating it into the
documentation directory) is printed on standard output.

   To install the Info documentation separately, run:

     make install-info

Note that to get the images in Info documentation, ‘install-doc’ target
creates symbolic links to HTML and PDF installed documentation tree in
‘PREFIX/share/info’, in order to save disk space, whereas ‘install-info’
copies images in ‘PREFIX/share/info’ subdirectories.

   It is possible to build a documentation tree in
‘out-www/online-root/’, with special processing, so it can be used on a
website with content negotiation for automatic language selection; this
can be achieved by issuing

     make WEB_TARGETS=online doc

and both ‘offline’ and ‘online’ targets can be generated by issuing

     make WEB_TARGETS="offline online" doc

   Several targets are available to clean the documentation build and
help with maintaining documentation; an overview of these targets is
available with

     make help

from every directory in the build tree.  Most targets for documentation
maintenance are available from ‘Documentation/’; for more information,
see *note (lilypond-contributor)Documentation work::.

   The makefile variable ‘QUIET_BUILD’ may be set to ‘1’ for a less
verbose build output, just like for building the programs.

Building documentation without compiling
........................................

The documentation can be built locally without compiling LilyPond
binary, if LilyPond is already installed on your system.

   From a fresh Git checkout, do

     ./autogen.sh   # ignore any warning messages
     cp GNUmakefile.in GNUmakefile
     make -C scripts && make -C python
     nice make LILYPOND_EXTERNAL_BINARY=/path/to/bin/lilypond doc

   This may break: if a new feature is added with a test file in
input/regression, even the latest development release of LilyPond will
fail to build the docs.

   You may build the manual without building all the ‘input/*’ stuff
(i.e.  mostly regression tests): change directory, for example to
‘Documentation/’, issue ‘make doc’, which will build documentation in a
subdirectory ‘out-www’ from the source files in current directory.  In
this case, if you also want to browse the documentation in its
post-processed form, change back to top directory and issue

     make out=www WWW-post

1.6.3 Testing LilyPond binary
-----------------------------

LilyPond comes with an extensive suite that exercises the entire
program.  This suite can be used to test that the binary has been built
correctly.

   The test suite can be executed with:

make test

   If the test suite completes successfully, the LilyPond binary has
been verified.

   More information on the regression test suite is found at *note
(lilypond-contributor)Regression tests::.

1.7 Problems
============

For help and questions use <lilypond-user@gnu.org>.  Send bug reports to
<bug-lilypond@gnu.org>.

   Bugs that are not fault of LilyPond are documented here.

Compiling on MacOS X
--------------------

Here are special instructions for compiling under MacOS X. These
instructions assume that dependencies are installed using MacPorts.
(http://www.macports.org/) The instructions have been tested using OS X
10.5 (Leopard).

   First, install the relevant dependencies using MacPorts.

   Next, add the following to your relevant shell initialization files.
This is ‘~/.profile’ by default.  You should create this file if it does
not exist.

     export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
     export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib:$DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH

   At this point, you should verify that you have the appropriate fonts
installed with your ghostscript installation.  Check ‘ls
/opt/local/share/ghostscript/fonts’ for: ’c0590*’ files (.pfb, .pfb and
.afm).  If you don’t have them, run the following commands to grab them
from the ghostscript SVN server and install them in the appropriate
location:

     svn export http://svn.ghostscript.com/ghostscript/tags/urw-fonts-1.0.7pre44/
     sudo mv urw-fonts-1.0.7pre44/* /opt/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/
     rm -rf urw-fonts-1.07pre44

   Now run the ‘./configure’ script.  To avoid complications with
automatic font detection, add

     --with-fonts-dir=/opt/local/share/ghostscript/fonts

FreeBSD
-------

To use system fonts, dejaview must be installed.  With the default port,
the fonts are installed in ‘usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu’.

   Open the file ‘$LILYPONDBASE/usr/etc/fonts/local.conf’ and add the
following line just after the ‘<fontconfig>’ line.  (Adjust as necessary
for your hierarchy.)

     <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>

International fonts
-------------------

On Mac OS X, all fonts are installed by default.  However, finding all
system fonts requires a bit of configuration; see this post
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-03/msg00472.html)
on the ‘lilypond-user’ mailing list.

   On Linux, international fonts are installed by different means on
every distribution.  We cannot list the exact commands or packages that
are necessary, as each distribution is different, and the exact package
names within each distribution changes.  Here are some hints, though:

Red Hat Fedora

    taipeifonts fonts-xorg-truetype ttfonts-ja fonts-arabic \
         ttfonts-zh_CN fonts-ja fonts-hebrew

Debian GNU/Linux

   apt-get install emacs-intl-fonts xfonts-intl-.* \
        fonts-ipafont-gothic  fonts-ipafont-mincho \
        xfonts-bolkhov-75dpi xfonts-cronyx-100dpi xfonts-cronyx-75dpi

Using lilypond python libraries
-------------------------------

If you want to use lilypond’s python libraries (either running certain
build scripts manually, or using them in other programs), set
‘PYTHONPATH’ to ‘python/out’ in your build directory, or
‘.../usr/lib/lilypond/current/python’ in the installation directory
structure.

1.8 Concurrent stable and development versions
==============================================

It can be useful to have both the stable and the development versions of
LilyPond available at once.  One way to do this on GNU/Linux is to
install the stable version using the precompiled binary, and run the
development version from the source tree.  After running ‘make all’ from
the top directory of the LilyPond source files, there will be a binary
called ‘lilypond’ in the ‘out’ directory:

     <PATH TO>/lilypond/out/bin/lilypond

   This binary can be run without actually doing the ‘make install’
command.  The advantage to this is that you can have all of the latest
changes available after pulling from git and running ‘make all’, without
having to uninstall the old version and reinstall the new.

   So, to use the stable version, install it as usual and use the normal
commands:

     lilypond foobar.ly

   To use the development version, create a link to the binary in the
source tree by saving the following line in a file somewhere in your
‘$PATH’:

     exec <PATH TO>/lilypond/out/bin/lilypond "$@"

   Save it as ‘Lilypond’ (with a capital L to distinguish it from the
stable ‘lilypond’), and make it executable:

     chmod +x Lilypond

   Then you can invoke the development version this way:

     Lilypond foobar.ly

   TODO: ADD

   - other compilation tricks for developers

1.9 Build system
================

We currently use make and stepmake, which is complicated and only used
by us.  Hopefully this will change in the future.

Version-specific texinfo macros
-------------------------------

   • made with ‘scripts/build/create-version-itexi.py’ and
     ‘scripts/build/create-weblinks-itexi.py’

   • used extensively in the ‘WEBSITE_ONLY_BUILD’ version of the website
     (made with ‘website.make’, used on lilypond.org)

   • not (?)  used in the main docs?

   • the numbers in VERSION file: MINOR_VERSION should be 1 more than
     the last release, VERSION_DEVEL should be the last *online*
     release.  Yes, VERSION_DEVEL is less than VERSION.

