Re: Using rumor with Docker container on MacOS

[Carl Sorensen]

On 10/28/19, 12:25 AM, "Henning Hraban Ramm" <address@hidden> wrote:

    
    > 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?

Yes, I tried to just compile it on OSX.  But I couldn't even get it to 
configure.  I think it's because I likely don't have autotools installed.

Carls-MBP:rumor-1.0.5 carlsorensen$ ./autogen.sh
./autogen.sh: line 2: aclocal: command not found
./autogen.sh: line 3: autoheader: command not found
./autogen.sh: line 4: automake: command not found
./autogen.sh: line 5: autoconf: command not found

I believe that if I install MacPorts, I will get the autotools installed.  I'm 
not sure if that will happen if I install Homebrew.

I've had some problems in the past with clashes between MacPorts and Homebrew, 
so I'm a bit skittish about installing either of those package managers without 
having a clear vision forward of how to get to my end goal.
    
    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.

I have been able to access USB-Serial for programming microcontrollers on my 
system, but maybe it's because I'm using signed drivers....

Thanks,

Carl