Re: MacOS 64bit support

[Yassine Chbani]

Hello James,

Thanks for your answer, I managed to install Lilypond from macports, it
works like a charm. We could include a note in the website/documentation
about this workaround, what do you think?

Cheers,
Yassine

On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 at 16:19, <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello Yassine,
>
> On 15/12/2019 15:08, Yassine Chbani wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Lilypond does not currently offer 64bit binaries for MacOS on its
> download
> > page <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/web/macos-x>. These
> 64bit
> > binaries are however necessary to run Lilypond on the latest macOS
> Catalina
> > release (that removed 32bit support).
> >
> > I am currently setting up GUB to try and compile Lilypond on the
> darwin-x86_64
> > platform, is there any particular issue I should be aware of regarding
> > 64bit compiling for MacOS targets?
>
> There has been a lot of discussion with regard to Mac OS about this on
> the developer lists.
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2019-10/msg00272.html
> (Mac OS 64 bit generally)
>
> and
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2019-10/msg00045.html
> (Gub Specific)
>
> and
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2019-02/msg00110.html
>
> If you have any comments/questions that are not answered here I suggest
> you ask/post in the developer lists than the bug lists.
>
> Regards
>
>
> James
>
>
>