Mark wrote: > I've a couple a questions for builds for windows and macs. If anyone could > help > I would be very grateful. > 1) Am I correct in thinking that you can build binaries for Windows and Macs > in > Linux by altering the config scripts?
Of course, this is exactly how released binaries are built: binaries are cross-compiled on a GNU/Linux system for all platforms (although it's a bit more problematic for MacOS 10.5). However, it's a bit more complex than simply altering config scripts. > 2) if this is correct any pointers on how to do it :) The framework is called GUB (Grand Unified Binaries), you can fetch it through the Git repository http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git If you don't want to learn using Git now (but I'd recommend to learn it if you want to track LilyPond and GUB development), you can download a snapshot at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/gub GUB is documented in three README* files at top of its source tree. You can learn about Git in the two first chapter of the User manual http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html and we also have ready-to-use Git instructions for lilypond.org translators http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=blob_plain;f=README;hb=web (simply replace "web" with "gub" in Git commands). > I am now going to go and install linux and do the builds there. This is not a bad idea, since it's known to be possible to build binaries for Windows with GUB. As an alternative (and probably untested) way, you could try to set up GUB to compile Windows binaries on Windows, by running GUB either on MinGW or on Cygwin. Please let us know about the results of your building experiments. Good luck (again) John _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
