The binary LilyPond setup for Windows is in fact a Cygwin installation, including the LilyPond package for Cygwin.
If you run Windows NT, 2000 or XP, please become administrator first;
installing as an ordinary user does not seem to work on certain
Windows-NT variants. Download and run
setup.exe. You will be asked some
questions. If you are unsure just click "Next". Do not change the
default install directory c:/cygwin
. Do not change the default
text type UNIX
, i.e., do not use DOS
mounts.
In the Package View dialogue window, click on the Publishing section to view the available publishing software for Cygwin. Make sure that LilyPond is selected. If this is a new or first installation, click on Skip to select.
This installs LilyPond, and Cygwin, GUILE, Python, teTeX (MikTeX is not
supported). If you already have some of that software under
c:/cygwin
, then don't worry: nothing will be installed twice.
If you install the Cygwin's XFree86 X11 window system, tetex-x11 and
ghostscript-x11 packages too, you can view the dvi
output doing
xdvi test.dvi
.
LilyPond needs a PostScript/PDF viewer to be really useful. At this time (Sun Aug 11 2002), such software is not available in Cygwin, so you must use native Windows software instead.
Ghostview.
Install GSView-2.7 (GhostView for Windows), or visit ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/.
If you need to view PDFs, or want to create PDFs using GSView, you can install the newer versions GSView-3.6 and GhostScript-6.50. You get annoying Register Now|Cancel popups, though.
Install GSview-3.6 and GhostScript-6.50, or visit the Ghostview and GSview site.
Note: ftp.cs.wisc.edu has moved the ghostscript/ghostview distribution to a rather unreliable server.