Re: Mac OS X Catalina 64-bit compile ?

[Mats Behre]

On 2020-05-30 10:27, Hans Åberg wrote:
> > On 30 May 2020, at 10:14, Mats Behre <mb.maillists@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 2020-05-29 20:18, Hans Åberg wrote:
> > > For an editor app, Frescobaldi is much better, and it runs lilypond externally, 
> > > and for 2.21, there is the installer that I just posted about [1], which does 
> > > not require MacPorts, or the MacPorts one itself, or possibly, traditional 
> > > package chasing.
> > >
> > > 1. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-05/msg00536.html
> > The editor part at least I can do without, but I think you missed an important 
> > part of the OP:s request - he does not want an installer (and neither do I).
>
> Not really, you would probably have to compile it yourself.

As I said, I downloaded it from the marnen link ...

> > The Lilypond.app available through the other link can be just copied to an 
> > arbitrary location, and the Lilypond program itself used as in earlier versions.
>
> That is no longer true on MacOS 10.15, as the OS itself runs in a dedicated 
> read only space, and you can only put it certain locations. The directory 
> /Applications/ is for native MacOS applications, and for example /opt/ is for 
> Unix applications, and /usr/local/ for source compiled applications.

That's the recommended locations (I assume you have them correctly), but there 
is nothing that prevents you from putting things elsewhere. Perhaps using an 
installer (or putting lilypond in /opt) prevents the need to explicitly 
allowing the application to run, but as you can see from below I can run it 
from e.g. Downloads. (But you're correct that the OS location is read-only, 
even if I'm sure that you can find ways around that too - but you really don't 
want to!)

~/Downloads/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond -v
GNU LilyPond 2.20.0

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  Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
  Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
  and others.

This program is free software.  It is covered by the GNU General Public
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