Re: Problem running midi2ly on Mac OS X 10.6.8

[Ralph Palmer]

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Owen Saxton <address@hidden> 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.
>
> -- Owen
>
> Greetings, Owen and list members :

This has been submitted as issue 2208 :
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2208

Ralph