On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 11:52, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[1]mar...@marnen.org> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 2:41 PM Jahrme Risner <[2]lilyp...@jahrme.com>
wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 20:43, Wesley Rhodes
<[3]wesleymrho...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello!
I hope you area all doing well during this time. I am a MacBook user
running macOS Catalina. I was thrilled to find LilyPond, but it
appears to
not be working for me. I downloaded it, but when I try to run the
program I
get the following error:
"The developer of this app needs to update it to work with this
version of
macOS. Contact the developer for more information."
Can you tell me if there is a fix for this issue? I would really
appreciate
it. Thank you!
First of all, I’m sorry you’ve run into this. For a long time there
were no 64-bit Mac binaries of LilyPond available at all. I’ve fixed
that situation now; binaries are available for download at
[4]https://bintray.com/marnen/lilypond-darwin-64 . I hope to get this
mentioned on the LilyPond website sometime in the near future so fewer
people are confused.
Build scripts and an issue tracker for 64-bit Mac builds are at
[5]https://gitlab.com/marnen/lilypond-mac-builder
, if you want to contribute or need to report problems. Again, I hope
to get this better integrated with the rest of the LilyPond project.
One option is to use MacPorts ([6]macports.org) which is a package
manager for macOS that provides both stable and development versions of
LilyPond (among other programs). Using a package manager like MacPorts
is my preferred solution.
And my explicitly dispreferred one if you don’t already have some other
need for MacPorts. But you knew that. :)
Yes, and that is why I CC’d you, to make sure Wesley had all the option
available.
Some people would rather download a .app bundle; if you fall into this
camp I know that Marnen on the list has been working on such a bundle.
I believe there are links in the chat history, and I’m cc’ing in Marnen
in case you need help with this approach.
Yes, see above. I believe this should be the preferred option for most
Mac users who don’t have a specific reason to need to build from
source.
One slight correction here, MacPorts will provide pre-built binaries
when available, building from source is usually only needed if you are
on an unusual platform or attempt to upgrade immediately after an
update has been submitted.
Best,
--
Marnen Laibow-Koser [7]mar...@marnen.org [8]http://www.marnen.org Sent
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References
1. mailto:mar...@marnen.org
2. mailto:lilyp...@jahrme.com
3. mailto:wesleymrho...@gmail.com
4. https://bintray.com/marnen/lilypond-darwin-64
5. https://gitlab.com/marnen/lilypond-mac-builder
6. http://macports.org/
7. mailto:mar...@marnen.org
8. http://www.marnen.org/
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