Hi Jonas, Thanks for your answer.
I don't know how works macports, but it already manages to provide compiled versions for Apple ARM of lilypond (and frescobaldi). In fact, I can live with that, so I will wait. Greetings, Ben > Le 11 mars 2023 à 14:03, Jonas Hahnfeld <hah...@hahnjo.de> a écrit : > > On Thu, 2023-03-02 at 02:28 +0100, Ben wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> Thanks for the list. >> >> I would be interested in a version of lilypond natively for >> Apple processors. >> >> I work with a mac M1 and if someone explains me the procedure >> for the compilation, I can gladly compile this version myself. > > Sorry for the very late reply! > > Thanks to Jean, I was able to find the thread on lilypond-user-fr: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user-fr/2023-03/msg00018.html > > In short, as also discussed in there, the x86 binaries will also work > on ARM, thanks to Apple's translation layer. For now, this should cover > the most urgent use cases. > > Of course, it would be nice to provide native ARM binaries for macOS > because sooner or later, Apple will want to remove the x86 translation. > There are currently two blockers for this: > a) The scripts in release/binaries need to produce a working version > for macOS ARM. Jacques Menu had a try on this some time ago, but if I > re-read the discussion correctly (which was off-list, unfortunately) > Ghostscript did not build back then. This needs to be figured out. > b) I need to have access to a machine where I can build official > binaries during the release process. Alternatively, but less preferred > (because it requires synchronization and introduces delays), somebody > else will need to build the binaries. However, depending on need, this > would probably be feasible at least for the stable releases. But let's > worry about this after a) is solved. > > Cheers > Jonas
