Re: Compile for Mac

[Tim Sheasby]

Ok -- heart just fainted : (  -- will let others do it
On 11 Mar 2011, at 2:12 AM, Graham Percival wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:24:12PM +0000, Neil Puttock wrote:
>> On 10 March 2011 22:08, Tim Sheasby <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Using lilydev on a Virtual Box ubuntu machine – how do I compile a Mac 
>>> binary?
>> 
>> Via GUB: http://lilypond.org/gub/
>> 
>> It's not for the faint of heart, but should be possible (if very slow)
>> on a virtual machine.
> 
> Seconded on the "not for faint of heart", and my guess is that it
> would take something like 24 hours to compile a binary inside
> lilydev.
> 
> If you seriously seriously want to compile lilypond binaries,
> install ubuntu natively, preferably on a multi-core machine.  On
> my duo-core machine with hyperthreading (i.e. 4 threads at once)
> and 3 gigs of RAM, it takes about 12 hours to compile everything.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Graham

Tim Sheasby
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