Re: Running Denemo on macOS Catalina

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 5:31 AM Richard Shann <richard@rshann.plus.com> wrote:

On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 17:50 -0400, Gabriel Ellsworth wrote:
> I am glad to report that I was able to install Denemo thanks to these
> instructions from David. There were a few kinks (compounded by my own
> cluelessness about programming) that I had to work out in further
> messages with David, but we got it to run in the end.

I've updated the Downloads page to give the instructions that David
posted (see http://www.denemo.org/hacking-sources/#MacPorts )
Please send any additional things that you had to do so I can include
them, and correct any errors I may have made (I can't test any of this,
not having any sort of Mac :( ).

Please also post up the keyboard mapping file that works for Mac, and
if possible report on the behavior with external USB keyboard with
NumPad as this is enables by far the most efficient music entry method
of any music engraving program.

Denemo has many unusual features so don't feel shy about asking on this
list if anything seems difficult to do.

Richard

>
> I am excited to start engraving scores with Denemo! I hope that it
> will be even easier for future Mac users.
>
> Many thanks to David!
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 11:05 AM David Richmond <bassoonist@gmail.com
> > wrote:
> > Hi Gabriel,
> >
> > There does appear to be a lot of interest in Denemo on the Mac, so
> > here is a guide to what I did.
> >
> > First, you need to install macports. Macports is a command-line
> > utility that downloads and installs UNIX tools on Mac OS X. (This
> > is all complicated, so get some coffee ready.) The installation
> > guide is here: https://guide.macports.org/#installing. As the guide
> > notes, you will also need to install Apple's XCode. You can find a
> > MacPorts package for Catalina here: https://github.com/macports/mac
> > ports-base/releases/.
> >
> > Once you have macports installed and have taken a tour through the
> > usage documentation, use MacPorts to install the following
> > prerequisite packages for Denemo (with the command sudo port
> > install [package_name] from a Terminal command line). This is from
> > http://denemo.org/hacking-sources/, modified to the MacPorts name
> > and variant for each respective package.
> > guile
> > aubio
> > portaudio
> > fftw-3
> > gtk3 +quartz
> > libxml2
> > xml2
> > automake
> > intltool
> > gtk-doc
> > libtool
> > gtksourceview3 +quartz
> > fluidsynth
> > autoconf
> > libsmf
> > gettext
> > librsvg +quartz
> > portmidi
> > libsndfile
> > evince +quartz
> > rubberband
> > lilypond
> > Then, download the Denemo source here: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/denem
> > o/denemo-2.4.0.tar.gz
> >
> > Unzip it in a working directory. Then, open a terminal window,
> > change to that directory, and run:
> >
> > cd denemo
> > # Run configure in another directory to not pollute your workspace
> > with .o files
> > mkdir bin && cd bin
> > ../configure
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > Hope this helps.....I will also say Denemo itself has something of
> > a learning curve. As I noted a few weeks ago to this list, I also
> > found I needed to remap the Mac keyboard shortcut bindings. If you
> > do not have experience running programs on Mac OS X that use GTK,
> > recognize that you'll need to adjust your usual Mac expectations in
> > terms of GUI behavior.
> >
> > David
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:11 AM Gabriel Ellsworth <gabriel.ellswort
> > h@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks, David!
> > >
> > > I went to http://denemo.org/downloads-page/ and clicked the “Mac
> > > OS X” button with a down arrow at the top of the page. It links
> > > to http://denemo.org/downloads/denemo-2.2-darwin-x64.tar.bz2
> > > (that is what I downloaded).
> > >
> > > Are you aware of any way that I could install Denemo on my
> > > machine at this time?
> > >
> > > If someone on this list has a few minutes to give me a call and
> > > walk me through any installation steps, I would be grateful.
> > >
> > > I need to install the software today as I am arranging a piece
> > > for a wedding that is only a week away. I am hoping not to have
> > > to pay to reactivate Sibelius on my machine.
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:10 AM David Richmond <bassoonist@gmail.
> > > com> wrote:
> > > > Hi Gabriel,
> > > >
> > > > What version of Denemo? Did you compile from source? I believe
> > > > the binary packages for MacOS X have not worked for quite some
> > > > time.
> > > >
> > > > As I wrote earlier to this list, I would like to package Denemo
> > > > for Mac OS X as I know there is much interest in the program on
> > > > this platform, but I also have a limited background in computer
> > > > programming and I think I should prioritize learning and
> > > > using Denemo first (which also serves to test Denemo on Mac).
> > > > My optimistic timeline is probably end of year for binary
> > > > packages, and about three months for a MacPorts source
> > > > distribution.
> > > >
> > > > David
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 8:03 AM Gabriel Ellsworth <gabriel.ells
> > > > worth@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am new to Denemo and LilyPond. I tried to install Denemo
> > > > > this morning, but when I try to open the program I get the
> > > > > following error message:
> > > > >
> > > > > I have macOS Catalina (version 10.15.5). Is my OS causing the
> > > > > problem?
> > > > >
> > > > > I have no computer-programming background; apologies in
> > > > > advance for my cluelessness.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Gabriel
> > > > >

From:	David Richmond
Subject:	Re: Running Denemo on macOS Catalina
Date:	Sat, 27 Jun 2020 06:51:10 -0500