I'm a big fan of Macports, and since lilypond seems to be so difficult to compile, I figured I would try to write a portfile for it, to make compiling easier for everyone. After about a week's work of research and many, many failed attempts, I finally have a portfile that seems to work. Can people test this portfile to verify that lilypond builds correctly? And if it reliably does so, can this information be put on the lilypond download page?
To compile lilypond using Macports, first make sure you have XCode installed. Then just download Macports from http://www.macports.org/ and install it, add /opt/local to your PATH, and then run "sudo port install lilypond". That's it. Macports will download, compile, and install lilypond and its dependencies. Also, I have not yet tested the GUI option in lilypond. To try building it, run "sudo port install lilypond +gui" instead of just "sudo port install lilypond". If it works, great -- if it doesn't, can people post their error messages? _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
