Re: Would like to develop

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Interesting, the brew formula uses the pre-built binaries which are 32-
bit only (due to licensing issues, see below):
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/HEAD/Casks/lilypond.rb
That's more of a packaging issue in brew, LilyPond should build fine
with Clang since a year or so. IMHO the formula should be updated to
build from source.

For the pre-built binaries, you could have a look at my ideas in this
repo: https://github.com/hahnjo/lilypond-binaries/ I think I eventually
made it work for macOS, but I don't own a Mac myself so help would be
welcome. I presented the idea earlier this year, see this thread:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2020-03/msg00337.html
Note that this way requires Guile 2.2 (to also get 64-bit binaries for
Windows) which is not yet ready for full production use, I'd say.

Regards
Jonas

Am Donnerstag, dem 31.12.2020 um 19:37 +0000 schrieb Juan Lucas Rey:
> Hi thanks for the swift response on New year's Eve no less.
> 
> I am referring at the problem installing from brew, or even the fact that the 
> instructions for using terminal lily pond should be updated to reflect the 
> fact that zsh is the new default terminal (I think the tutorial assumes bash)
> 
> But mainly the issue would be lilypond not working with brew out of the box
> 
> > On 31 Dec 2020, at 15:51, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 4:05 PM Juan Lucas Rey <juanlucasrey@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hello
> > > > 
> > > > I am currently an Engineer working regularly with C++17 at Bloomberg, 
> > > > and
> > > > would like to be a contributor to lilypond. In particular I would like 
> > > > to
> > > > take as first objective to make it compatible with 64 bit compilation.
> > > > 
> > > > Is this an objective that is desirable by the rest of the team? Was it
> > > > attempted before?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I think LilyPond already works well on 64-bit architectures. (I'm using it
> > > on a x86_64 laptop currently). What makes you think it needs more
> > > work?
> > 
> > His headers show "X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3608.120.23.2.4)" so this is
> > likely a guess regarding the lack of availability of a 64-bit MacOSX
> > version from the main site.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, that's rather an Apple licensing issue.  Addressing it
> > would likely require moving the MacOSX compilation environment on GUB
> > <https://lilypond.org/gub> from Apple's proprietary SDKs (which don't
> > have anything allowing cross-compilation for 64bit systems) to a form of
> > free Darwin-only.  Certainly a worthwhile goal but probably quite
> > different from what the OP thinks the problem is here.
> > 
> > -- 
> > David Kastrup
>

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