Re: Problem running midi2ly on Mac OS X 10.6.8

[Hans Aberg]

On 9 Jan 2012, at 23:03, Ralph Palmer wrote:

>> The 2.14.2 version of Lilypond for Intel Macs running OS x 10.6 contains
>> the shared library midi.so, used by midi2ly.  Unfortunately it contains
>> 32-bit code which is incompatible with Python 2.6 which by default runs
>> in 64-bit mode, and midi2ly fails with the error message:
>> 
>> ImportError:
>> dlopen(/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lib/lilypond/
>> current/python/midi.so, 2): no suitable image found.  Did find:
>> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/lib/lilypond/current/
>> python/midi.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture
>> 
>> I was eventually able to fix this by reading the python man pages and
>> following the instructions to make it run in 32-bit mode, but it would
>> be much better if midi.so were built containing both 32- and 64-bit
>> code.
> 
> This has been submitted as issue 2208 :
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2208

The API is too old, as well:
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2011-10/msg00618.html

Hans