Being a layman, most of this is all going over my head. But I gather that
compiling this particular project will not be possible for the time being
on my current machine, so I’ll either try to get my decrepit laptop up and
running, or ask a friend to help out :-)

Thanks for the replies,

Brent.
On Thu, 10 May 2018 at 6:55 am, Michael Gerdau <m...@qata.de> wrote:

> > I have no idea what it would entail to also provide 64bit Windows
> > binaries.
>
> Last time I looked (about 1.5 years ago) the problem was a missing
> mingw-w64 package that exists for mingw (the 32bit version) for which I
> think it is not actually required for the lilypond build, only for GUB
> in general.
>
> I'm not very knowledgeable w/r to GUB. So here is a question for those
> with better knowledge:
> Is it possible to reduce the required packages for GUB for particular
> software (as in lilypond)?
>
> If that's the case I'd expect it to be fairly straight forward to
> replace the mingw stuff by mingw-w64 since the later is (or was)
> supposed to be a dropin replacement for the former.
>
> Kind regards,
> Michael
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