Hi all,

I've come to the conclusion that the best workaround for the lack of 64-bit
builds on Mac and Windows is to run Lilypond in a Docker container. Based
on the number of Lilypond images on Docker Hub, it would seem I'm fairly
late to this party, though if it's been discussed on the user mailing list,
I missed it.

Based on the helpful guide here
https://kylebaldw.in/posts/2019/running-lilypond-on-catalina/, I have
64-bit Lilypond working from Frescobaldi on MacOS Catalina. You can get my
scripts and Dockerfiles on Github:
https://github.com/shevvek/lilypond-docker. The images themselves are on
Docker Hub.

When I have a chance, my thought is that the same principle should also
work on Windows with suitable batch files.

I hope that official 64-bit builds for both stable and development will
become available for all platforms, but in the meantime hopefully others
will find this Docker approach helpful.

Happy holidays,

Saul

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