Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond development <lilypond-devel@gnu.org> writes:
> Am Samstag, dem 27.11.2021 um 12:43 +0100 schrieb Jan Nieuwenhuizen: >> Carl Sorensen writes: >> >> Hi, >> >> > I think GUB was a great idea, but it has proven difficult to maintain. >> > And the creator of GUB (Jan), has indicated that he thinks it is not >> > worth continuing to work on. So GUB has been a dead man walking for >> > some time. >> >> FWIW, Han-Wen is the initial author of GUB >> >> >> https://gitlab.com/janneke/gub/-/commit/34095019c86ced7dc3be79e306b7a7b45e3ab909 >> >> in an effort to combine the Darwin and MinGW cross build >> scripts/makefiles. >> >> But yeah, some 5 years ago >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2016-03/msg00204.html >> >> I already proposed using GNU Guix, making use of its excellent cross >> build system and creation of universal binaries. > > The problem is there is no such thing as cross-compilation for recent > macOS, it's simply not allowed by Apple. There could be for Darwin and it's conceivable that a command line application like LilyPond could be delivered in that manner without involving Apple's proprietary build environments. Likely without offering platform-specific font integration. -- David Kastrup
