4.7 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

Here are special instructions for compiling under macOS. These instructions assume that dependencies are installed using MacPorts. The instructions have been tested using Mac~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 macOS, all fonts are installed by default. However, finding all system fonts requires a bit of configuration; see this post 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.

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