Re: macOS 64-bit

[Hans Åberg]

> On 7 Jan 2020, at 21:52, Marnen Laibow-Koser <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Some updates.  For the time being, at least, I've changed approaches.
> Since I couldn't understand much of GUB's OS detection logic, and no one
> seemed able to help with that, I abandoned GUB entirely for my latest
> attempt and used MacPorts to build a 64-bit LilyPond binary (thanks,
> Werner!).
> 
> My current plan is now to build a 64-bit build of LilyPad.app and put the
> LilyPond binary in there, then use
> https://github.com/auriamg/macdylibbundler or some similar tool to package
> the dylib dependencies in the app bundle.  While it's overcomplicated
> thanks to poor documentation and obsolescent ways of doing things, this
> seems like a potentially easy way to get a usable 64-bit LilyPond Mac .app
> bundle that will run on Catalina.

FYI, it is possible to build apps using MacPorts, for example, there is 
emacs-app that installs Emacs.app in /Applications/MacPorts/, and it seems 
working if copied out of that directory.