Re: installing lilypond on macosx with Gerben Wierda's TeX distribution

[Mats Bengtsson]

Anthony Mosakowski wrote:
> Thanks Mats.
>
> I tried the Fink route, but it doesn't seem to agree with the proxy 
> server here at my school. I'm wondering if anyone here has had any 
> success with compiling Lilypond from source on OSX. I know that all of 
> the steps listed in the install doc are not really accurate or 
> up-to-date. For instance, OSX includes Python, so I shouldn't have to 
> reinstall that. I have Ghostscript 7 installed. Will that work, or do I 
> really need to downgrade to version 6? Also, Gerben Wierda's TeX 
> distribution is basically teTeX optimized for macosx, so I'm hoping that 
> will work too. If anyone has any experience or suggestions for how to do 
> this, please let me know.

Just watch out that your Python and Guile versions are new enough and
that you have access to kpathsea.h and libkpathsea.a (from the TeX
distribution). The Ghostscript version is not critical at all.

Good luck, don't forget to tell use how when you succed ;-)

   /Mats

> Anthony
>
> On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 10:34 AM, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>
>     You can find a lilypond package in the Fink distribution.
>     However, if watch out if it's version 1.6.6 or 1.6.7, since
>     then the scalable fonts used in PDF output is broken. 1.6.8
>     or newer are OK.
>     I'm not sure if TeXShop uses the kpathsea library that Lilypond
>     uses to work together with the TeX installation, so you may
>     need teTeX if you want to build Lilypond yourself.
>
>     /Mats
>
>     Anthony Mosakowski wrote:
>
>         I am not a Lilypond user as yet, but I would like to try it out.
>         I'm running 10.2.6 on various newer macs. I use TeXShop with
>         Gerben Wierda's TeX distribution installed by his i-installer
>         and I keep the version of TeX up to date. I also have
>         Ghostrcript 7 already installed. So, I have a few questions:
>         - What is the most pain-free way to install Lilypond on top of
>         my current setup? I have developer tools installed, so I could
>         compile it from source, but I'd need a little guidance on how to
>         do it. I do have some Terminal experience, and I've compiled and
>         installed a couple of things, but I don't quite understand the
>         steps described in the Lilypond how-to-install doc.
>         - Would it be possible to make a package of Lilypond that would
>         work with GW's i-Installer app? If so this should be a very easy
>         way to install it for mac users. If anyone knows anyone who
>         might be able to do this, please pass along the hint.
>         Thanks.
>         Anthony
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        Mats Bengtsson
        Signal Processing
        Signals, Sensors and Systems
        Royal Institute of Technology
        SE-100 44  STOCKHOLM
        Sweden
        Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463                         
        Fax:   (+46) 8 790 7260
        Email: address@hidden
        WWW: http://www.s3.kth.se/~mabe
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