Re: [PoC] EXPERIMENTAL binaries of LilyPond 2.22.1

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Donnerstag, dem 20.05.2021 um 22:46 +0200 schrieb Federico Bruni:
> On Thu, May 20 2021 at 08:26:18 +0200, Jonas Hahnfeld 
> <hahnjo@hahnjo.de> wrote:
> > Yes, I *hope* that it would be straight-forward to produce binaries
> > with the same set of scripts, provided dependencies like Guile and
> > friends don't choke about the architecture. It clearly needs a native
> > build host, but it's not obvious to me how much users (would) run
> > LilyPond on AArch64...
> 
> Not many, but in the last year I read messages from a few users (on 
> lilypond-user mailing list) trying to build lilypond for this 
> architecture (on raspberrypy and some other device).
> 
> Actually I asked because I'm trying to build an aarch64 lilypond 
> bundled in Frescobaldi flatpak. I *think* I can cross-build it using my 
> x86_64 laptop. I'm following this guide:
> https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Apps/Packaging_Apps/Building_Flatpaks/Cross-Building.html

Cross-compilation is exactly the major point that I'm trying to avoid
for the new setup; it's just super complicated and if the architecture
isn't wide-spread enough that we can find a machine to build natively,
there's probably not much point in providing official binaries.

Jonas

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