Re: mac lion

[Curt]

I've never been able to get frescobaldi working on os x.  But I am enjoying the 
workflow with Elysium.  Outline view, pdf output as you edit, etc.  Plus, since 
it's an eclipse plugin, you get all the added benefits of an IDE, such as 
git/svn integration and other similar things.

Curt


On Sep 12, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Jean-Alexis Montignies wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been using command line only, self compiled version of Lilypond for 2 
> years now. The lilypond and lilypond-devel in macports are updated very 
> regularly.
> 
> I'm now running 2.17.1 on mountain lion.
> 
> This version if 3-4 times faster (at least last times I compared with 2.14 
> versions) than the official binary. I don't know why but it may be because it 
> uses more recent libraries or compilers.
> 
> The user interface of Lilypond on mac os is extremely limited, even compared 
> to textedit, the only thing it has is to be able to click on the preview and 
> get the cursor in the source. I would recommend using Frescobaldi.
> 
> Jean-Alexis
> 
> On 11 sept. 2012, at 10:25, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "macula" <address@hidden>
>> To: <address@hidden>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 7:55 AM
>> Subject: Re: mac lion
>> 
>> 
>>> I can confirm that 2.16.0, at least, works with 10.7.4.
>>> 
>>> As far as building the binaries, however, my experience has been negative. I
>>> have been unable to compile LilyPond on my machine, either manually or using
>>> homebrew. I have reported the issue on the devel list
>>> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2012-09/msg00452.html),
>>> and hopefully one of the wizards will take a few moments to examine it as it
>>> is reproducible and not limited to my machine.
>> 
>> 
>> As far as I'm aware, no-one has replied to your post about compiling on Mac, 
>> because as a general rule, we don't expect this to be needed.  Most people 
>> developing on lilypond use Ubuntu which we know will compile the binary. For 
>> those who don't have an Ubuntu machine, we would recommend 
>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/contributor/lilydev
>> 
>> --
>> Phil Holmes 
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