Re: macOS 64-bit

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 7:08 PM Marnen Laibow-Koser <address@hidden>
wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 6:52 PM Hans Åberg <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> > On 18 Oct 2019, at 00:30, Marnen Laibow-Koser <address@hidden>
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>> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 6:24 PM Hans Åberg <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> >> I made an installer into /opt/lilypond/ on MacOS 10.15, which you might
>> >> try out.
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>> > With port mdmg/mpkg, or some other way?
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>> Yes, see
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2019-03/msg00065.html
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>> > How do I try this out?
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>> Try this link:
>> https://web2.storegate.com/share/oCQjV4r
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> Awesome, thanks; I’ll try it when I get a chance. I still want to get an
> .app bundle built, but it’s good to know that the mdmg approach actually
> works as advertised. :)
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Some updates.  For the time being, at least, I've changed approaches.
Since I couldn't understand much of GUB's OS detection logic, and no one
seemed able to help with that, I abandoned GUB entirely for my latest
attempt and used MacPorts to build a 64-bit LilyPond binary (thanks,
Werner!).

My current plan is now to build a 64-bit build of LilyPad.app and put the
LilyPond binary in there, then use
https://github.com/auriamg/macdylibbundler or some similar tool to package
the dylib dependencies in the app bundle.  While it's overcomplicated
thanks to poor documentation and obsolescent ways of doing things, this
seems like a potentially easy way to get a usable 64-bit LilyPond Mac .app
bundle that will run on Catalina.

Once I produce a usable Mac 64-bit build, I intend to automate the process
(probably with something like Buildkite) and be able to produce usable
builds for every future release.

Thoughts?  Suggestions?  Considerations?  Anyone want to help?

Best,
-- 
Marnen Laibow-Koser
address@hidden
http://www.marnen.org