> On Oct 7, 2023, at 18:46, Ian West <ian42w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I can see that it is a complex business constructing a new software package. > > I was under the impression that, on 12 Aug 2022, I downloaded lilypong02.20.0 > build 20200311175017-darwin-64.tar, unpacked it and ran the package on my > 64-bit M2 MacBookAir running Ventura 13.4.1 > It ran successfully (once I had satisfied it that GS was ‘safe’. I used it > successfully for a year.
From what I can see, there is https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/releases/v2.24.2/downloads/lilypond-2.24.2-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz listed on the page https://lilypond.org/download.html Download it, and unpack it. Probably it can be put anywhere, if compiled with relative links. To use it: In Frescobaldi, Preferences, say which one binary to use. Otherwise, use Terminal, or any other program that calls the binary. Either call the binary with full or relative (Unix style) path in Terminal, or set the environment variable PATH to include its directory "bin", or write a script which includes it. The script can be put in /usr/local/bin/ as that is included by default in PATH. See what the PATH is say one of echo $PATH env A script named "lilypond" put in say /usr/local/bin/ is a text file that may contain: export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 exec /opt/local/bin/lilypond "$@" where /opt/local/bin/lilypond is if it is MacPorts, otherwise whatever path you have chosen. After making the text file named "lilypond", make chmod a+x lilypond sudo cp lilypond /usr/local/bin/ Then, in to run it in Terminal, just write lilypond …
