Re: MacOS python/GUI issues

[Chris Sawer]

On Mac OS X 10.4.11 x86 double-clicking on the app does nothing. 
Launching the binary from the command line directly gives:

~ $ ./Desktop/LilyPond.app/Contents/MacOS/LilyPond
Bus error

Chris


Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> See
>
>   http://lilypond.org/~hanwen/lilypad.tar.bz2
>
> this does not include lilypond itself, but if gui wrapper works, I
> will put it in the next builds for GUB.  Can people verify on the
> following platforms?
>
>   10.3 PPC
>   10.4 PPC
>   10.5 PPC (?)
>
>   10.4 x86
>   10.5 x86
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> > You need to have a python (2.4 or newer) installation that includes py2app,
> >
> > http://svn.pythonmac.org/py2app/py2app/trunk/doc/index.html
> >
> > when you have that, you should check out the lilypad installer at
> >
> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/macos-lilypad
> >
> > then it should work if you do
> >
> >  python setup.py py2app --iconfile lilypond.icns
> >
> > where the .icns is from
> >
> > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/installers/macos/lilypond.icns?root=lilypond
> >
> > The resulting .app  is something you should be able to open with
> >
> >  open LilyPad.app
> >
> > and should be similar to the current lilypond application.
> >
> >
> >
> >  tar cfz lilypad.tar.gz LilyPad.app/
> >
> > I'm pretty sure Graham did this a while ago for me (like 2 years), but
> > I can't recover the results anymore.
> >
> > [5 minutes later]
> >
> > actually, it appears that I have still have that tarball sitting on my
> > HD right here.
> >
> > Let me try to upload it somewhere for people to try.
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Carl D. Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I'm willing to give it a shot, but I have no experience with it.  If you'll
> > > suggest the steps needed, I'll see how it works.
> > >
> > > Carl
> > >
> > >
> > > On 9/30/08 10:19 PM, "Han-Wen Nienhuys" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Given the problems with the current GUI shell and python
> > > > incompatibilities on macos, I think it makes sense to rebuild the
> > > > shell using python 2.4, and as a fat binary. Then the installer will
> > > > include its own python interpreter,  which we could use to run the
> > > > scripts.
> > > >
> > > > Any takers for compiling lilypad with py2app ?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
> >
> >
> > --
> > Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen


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