Re: How to build LilyPond.app on macOS?

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 08:44:58AM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> I found
>     http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/contributor-big-page
> (didn't read it all) and only suspect that some logic might live in
> GUB, but I'm pretty much lost for the moment.

I am familiar with the process as of 4 years ago; it may have
changed since then.  Much of it is in GUB, but the actual code for
the editor is here:
https://github.com/gperciva/lilypad

This is compiled and uploaded to:
http://lilypond.org/downloads/gub-sources/osx-lilypad-universal/osx-lilypad-universal-0.6.3.tar.gz
and then GUB downloads that, inserts the cross-compiled
command-line binary, and packages it.

> I would like to see LilyPond.app being distributed in a package
> manager, but for that to happen I first need to understand how to
> build it.

As others have commented, the text editor included in the
LilyPond.app is rather basic.  In addition, this whole process was
created a decade ago.  If I were interested in the lilypond
experience on OSX, I'd start looking at a new implementation:
something that takes the compiled lilypond package (which I
imagine can be easily done in homebrew or some other package
manager), then adds some sort of GUI shell or editor.

Cheers,
- Graham