Re: lilypond does not work with Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina)

[Carl Sorensen]

On 10/8/19, 7:34 AM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of Karlin High" 
<lilypond-devel-bounces+c_sorensen=address@hidden on behalf of address@hidden> 
wrote:

    On 10/8/2019 2:57 AM, Maria-Angeles Casares-de-Cal via lilypond-devel wrote:
    > Will we have news soon of the new Lilypond (64 bits) to work in macOS 
10.15?
    > 
    > We hope you can solve this issue. It is worth the work of updating 
Lilypond so that it can be used from now on the new Apple computers and the old 
ones that have been updated to the new operating system.
    
    Unfortunately, there is currently no clear path to making a 64-bit macOS 
    distribution of LilyPond. There is a conflict between Apple's Software 
    License Agreement for their XCode developer tools and the GNU General 
    Public License that LilyPond uses. This has been discussed at length 
    elsewhere on LilyPond email lists, references can be given if they'd be 
    helpful for you.

There are three options available to you:

1) Build your own LilyPond using MacPorts:  
http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/LilyPond-64-bit-version-for-a-Mac-td220488.html#a220492
It sounds like this is a pretty straightforward process, once you have 
downloaded Xcode from Apple.

2) Install  a virtual machine running linux: https://www.virtualbox.org/  and 
install a linux version of LilyPond in the virtual machine.

3) Run lilypond in a Docker container: 
https://blog.stephencleary.com/2018/05/docker-as-a-tool-provider.html
I have no experience with Docker, so I can't speak to this personally, but a 
number of people have talked about using Docker on the lists.

Federico Bruno says the latest LilyDev includes a Docker container. 
http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/LilyDev-0-3-released-td217945.html

I hope you can do one of these.

Thanks,

Carl