Hi again David, I didn't understand what you wrote, but I did a bunch of things to make it work. I think this will solve the convert-ly problem as well, though I haven't checked. This is in mintty shell using Cygwin on Windows 10.
$ ls -l /cygdrive/d/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/LilyPond/usr/bin/midi2ly -rwxrwx---+ 1 Administrators None 39034 Apr 24 07:05 '/cygdrive/d/Program Files (x86)/LilyPond/usr/bin/midi2ly' $ which python3 which: no python3 in ... $ which python /cygdrive/d/ProgramData/Anaconda2/python $ python --version Python 2.7.15 :: Anaconda, Inc. $ /cygdrive/d/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/LilyPond/usr/bin/python --version Python 3.7.4 $ /cygdrive/d/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/LilyPond/usr/bin/python /cygdrive/d/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/LilyPond/usr/bin/midi2ly --version D:\Program Files (x86)\LilyPond\usr\bin\python.exe: can't open file '/cygdrive/d/Program Files (x86)/LilyPond/usr/bin/midi2ly': [Errno 2] No such file or directory $ cp /cygdrive/d/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/LilyPond/usr/bin/midi2ly . $ mv midi2ly midi2ly.py $ /cygdrive/d/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/LilyPond/usr/bin/python midi2ly.py --version midi2ly (LilyPond) 2.22.1 $ /cygdrive/d/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/LilyPond/usr/bin/python midi2ly.py bwv0026_04.mid LY output to `bwv0026_04-midi.ly'... $ echo works! works! Cheers, Kees On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 6:17 PM David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu 17 Jun 2021 at 17:06:22 (-0700), Kees van den Doel wrote: > > Thanks David, I have followed the convert-ly posts but my take-away was > > that convert-ly is not usable for Windows users as no solution was > offered. > > I guess it's the same with this midi2ly. > > [Please keep the discussion on-list where others might see it, > particularly Windows-users.] > > Have you tried just invoking python3 itself, placing the name of the > script next, and then whatever arguments you were using, ie: > > $ path-to-midi2ly arguments … > > ↓ > > $ python3 path-to-midi2ly arguments … > > This is effectively all that a shebang does: you can execute a script > by name without having to care about which interpreter it needs. > (You may need path-to-python3 as well.) > > Cheers, > David. >
