Obtaining a copy of Mup Version 5.4

Mup Version 5.4 is available ready-to-run (compiled) for Windows or Linux, or in source form for compiling yourself on any system with a C compiler. In order to use Mup, you will also need a PostScript interpreter, such as Ghostscript, which you can download from http://www.ghostscript.com/ or http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost.

You can download Mup to try it out for free. If you decide to keep it, the cost is $29.

Windows

Step 1: Install programs to display the output of Mup

The output of Mup is a PostScript file that describes how the music should look. But to actually display this music, you need a program that displays PostScript. If you do not already have such a program, we highly recommend GSview, which requires that you also have Ghostscript. If you do not already have the GSview and Ghostscript programs, you can download them free of charge. One place you can get them is at the web site http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/. As it says under the Windows section there, install Ghostscript by downloading and running the appropriate file, based on whether you have 32 or 64 bit Windows. Then download and run the file for GSview. You can also get these program from http://www.ghostscript.com.

Step 2: Install Mup and Mupmate ready-to-run

Download and run mup54ins.exe (1462113 byte file). This runs the Mup/Mupmate installer. It shows you the license, and if you agree, it installs Mup and Mupmate, along with the User's Guide and other documentation.

After you install, under Start > Programs you will find an Arkkra entry, and under there are Mupmate and Uninstall Mupmate. If you would like an icon for Mupmate on your desktop, you can create one by right clicking Mupmate, choosing "copy", right clicking somewhere on the desktop, and choosing "paste". You can also run Mupmate by double clicking a .mup file in Windows Explorer. With some versions of Windows, you may have to reboot your computer for all this to work.

Alternatives

Running Mup without using Mupmate

The easiest way to use Mup is to run Mupmate. However, you can also run Mup directly, or by using Mupdisp, from an MS-DOS (command prompt) window. See our web page called "Running Mup on MS-DOS" for detailed information on this.

Compiling from source code

Most users will not be interested in Mup's source code, but if you want it, download mup54src.exe (1834786 byte file) to a folder of your choice. This is a self-extracting zip file. Click Start, and click Run to run the file, which unzips it. You can then compile Mup yourself. More detailed information on compiling Mup is available.

Mup for Linux

If you are running Linux, you can download mup54lin.tgz (1642641 byte file) which includes precompiled, ready-to-run executable files and documentation as a gzip-ed tar file. Or if your system supports software installation via rpm, you can download the rpm package mup-5.4-0.i586.rpm and install using
rpm -i mup-5.4-0.i586.rpm

If you wish to compile Mup for yourself, you can download either mup54src.tar.gz (1705171 byte file) or mup5.4-0.src.rpm (1708013 byte file). Additional information on building Mup is available.

Mup for Mac

A port of Mup to the Macintosh has been done by a Mup user, and is available from
http://mthies.de/mup/

If you want to compile Mup for OS X:

  1. Download the file 'mup54src.tar.gz'.
  2. Uncompress the downloaded file: 
            tar zxvf mup54src.tar.gz
  3. Go into the compilation directory: 
            cd mup-5.4/mup
  4. Compile the mup program 
            cc -O3 -Dunix -lm -o mup *.c
    Note: the '-O3' option is just for optimization, and thus can be omitted if you want, but the '-Dunix' option is very important. If you use the optimization option, be sure to use the letter capital O, not the digit zero.
  5. You can then move the program 'mup' where you want, and you can add the corresponding directory in your $PATH. You can then remove the 'mup-5.4' directory and the tar file that you downloaded, if you wish.

Mup for other OSs

Mup should run on almost any system that has a C compiler.

The complete source code package is available for download as

The source code packages all contain the same files; they are just in different formats.

More detailed information on compiling Mup is available.

If you have bare MS-DOS (not Windows) you can download mup54dos.exe

A Mup user has provided an OS/2 version, available from
http://www.lesstif.org/~amai/os2/html/mup.html

Another Mup user has provided an Atari version:

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