Re: Mac OS X Catalina 64-bit compile ?

[Hans Åberg]

> On 29 May 2020, at 18:29, Wim van Dommelen <mail@wimvd.nl> wrote:
> 
> Is there somebody already working on a proper 64-bit compile of LilyPond for 
> the new Mac OS X 10.15.4 "Catalina" version?
> 
> As an end-user now (but with more than 25 years of software experience, a lot 
> of mainframe and Unix hours spend in systems programming, now retired), I 
> liked the Apple "old style" for install and usage, that is: just copy the 
> .app file from a .dmg to a location you like. Although nowadays the job to 
> set up a complete virtual machine or yet another development copy is quite 
> easy, that still feels overdone to me. And I know from the past a seemingly 
> simple compile is often not always a straightforward task.

For an editor app, Frescobaldi is much better, and it runs lilypond externally, 
and for 2.21, there is the installer that I just posted about [1], which does 
not require MacPorts, or the MacPorts one itself, or possibly, traditional 
package chasing.

1. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-05/msg00536.html