Re: How to build LilyPond.app on macOS?

[Sven Axelsson]

On 6 December 2016 at 08:54, Michael Gerdau <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Mojca,

> Can someone please provide me a hint about how to build LilyPond.app
> on macOS (natively, without any cross-compiling, ideally without
> compiling any dependencies like ghostscript etc.)?

you won't like this:
It is not meant to be compiled natively.

If you want to do that anyway you'd have to do the porting all for
yourself.

Note I'm not saying it can't be done.

Good, because it most certainly can thogh it is pretty complex because of the many dependencies. In regards to package managers, Homebrew has a formula for building Lilypond from source. The biggest obstacle is the dependency on Guile 1.8, so there has to be a way of installing that without interfering with other packages that rely on Guile 2.0. There is also the possibility of using a package manager to install the official Lilypond.app. Again, Homebrew can do that, but at the moment only version 2.18 is supported. It would be easy to add the latest 2.18 as well. 

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