Re: Using rumor with Docker container on MacOS

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

> Am 2019-10-28 um 02:34 schrieb Carl Sorensen <address@hidden>:
> 
> I have a friend who has seen my lilypond work and would like to get involved 
> with lilypond.
> 
> He would like to use a MIDI keyboard, rather than the keyboard, to be able to 
> input music.
> 
> Frescobaldi with rumor appears to meet his needs, except for the fact that 
> rumor is only supported on Linux systems, and he uses MacOS
> 
> I have seen no MacPorts or Homebrew solutions for using rumor.  So I was 
> hoping to set up rumor to use with one of the Docker containers for LilyDev 
> (preferably the lilypond container, rather than the lilydev container).
> 
> I have never used Docker before, but I was able to get it set up with a few 
> false starts (thanks, Federico!).
> 
> Could somebody (maybe Federico) give me some pointers on how I might add 
> rumor to a Docker container?  Or maybe set up a new Docker container?  Since 
> rumor doesn't add the music into Lilypond files, as I understand it, but 
> instead creates music to be pasted into a lilypond source file, I think I 
> could use rumor in a Docker container, and paste the results of a rumor run 
> into a Frescobaldi window.
> 
> Anyway, if anybody could give me a brief synopsis of how I would go about it 
> (or even better, if somebody knows of a Docker setup, Homebrew cask, or 
> MacPorts portfile that supports rumor), could you please let me know?

Did you try to just compile it on OSX?

I see it depends on guile-2.0 (that might be a conflict with LilyPond, but you 
can probably have several versions installed) and ALSA (which is also not 
available on MacPorts, and I don’t know if it would work on OSX, since it 
probably conflicts with the sound drivers of macOS).

I guess an additional problem might be that Apple severely restricts hardware 
access, e.g. I can’t access USB-Serial for programming microcontrollers, 
because Apple only allows signed drivers on current systems, even while there’s 
no driver necessary. Don’t know if that applies to ALSA or USB-MIDI, but I 
suppose.

Greetlings, Hraban
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