I believe that this is nothing to do with lilypond itself but the way gs (ghost script) included in the Mac OS X application bundle was built.
Here is the command lines and messages from lilypond: $ cat test.ly \relative c' { c } $ /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond -dno-point-and-click -ddelete-intermediate-files --png -dresolution=300 -danti-alias-factor=1 test.ly GNU LilyPond 2.18.2 Processing `test.ly' Parsing... test.ly:1: warning: no \version statement found, please add \version "2.18.2" for future compatibility Interpreting music... Preprocessing graphical objects... Finding the ideal number of pages... Fitting music on 1 page... Drawing systems... Layout output to `test.ps'... Converting to PNG...dyld: Library not loaded: ./bin/../sobin/libgs.8.70.dylib Referenced from: /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../bin/gs Reason: image not found fatal error: GS exited with status: 5 _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond