> (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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user