Re: MacOS X native packaged (was Re: lilypond install mac os x)

[Libero Mureddu]

Hi!
In my impression lilypond.app should be like MacCsound 
(www.csounds.com/matt/MacCsound), Csound is a text environment for 
electronic music, it runs on a command line, but the version for mac 
provides a very simple text editor ready for syntax, correction of 
mistakes and some GUI elements (that lily doesn't need), and the binary 
is catched inside the "app" package.
So, my suggestion is: why don't give a package that contains a VERY 
simple and light (but useful for lily) text editor and a series of 
button for the main operations (run lily, start pdf viewer, midi etc).
I'm thinking to avoid the problem of downloading a text editor, setting 
it to lily mode, to be full of instruction a bit cryptical (for the 
musician).

I've finished a html version of the installation instruction for mac x 
with the corrections that some users nicely sent to me. It is based on 
the macos page on the lily website
Let me know if is it ok.
Ciao

Libero

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LilyPond on MacOS X

Requirements:

• Download and install X11, Apple XCode and X11SDK
• Download and install Fink
• If necessary, enable unstable tree
• Be connected to internet
• Know your administrator password

1) Install X11

Install X11 from Panther's third cd or downloading from Apple website: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/download/
You will need an Apple ID, see next section.

2) Install Apple XCode

•  Go to http://connect.apple.com
• Follow the instructions to get a free online membership to Apple Developer Connection
• Download the Xcode Tools 1.5 - CD Image
• Install Xcode and the X11SDK.pkg

3) Install Fink

• From http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php download the Binary Installer.

Briefly, Fink is a software that allows you to easily install software originally developed on linux environment, to Mac OS X; this software is already modifyied (ported) in order to run on Macintosh.

Fink will install itself and all the software in a new folder alled "sw"If you want to move the /sw folder to another position, check:
http://homepage.mac.com/sao1/fink/how.html

If you don't know nothing about linux, terminal etc, two goods starting point are http://www.gnu.org, to understand why lilypond is a free software and what this means, and
http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter/index.ws, to understand how to use the terminal.

4) Fink or FinkCommander

FinkCommander is provided together with Fink, and it is a graphic interface to use Fink.

After you have installed Fink, remember to give, from the terminal, the following commands:

"fink selfupdate" and 
"fink update-all"

or with FinkCommander,

menu "Source -> selfupdate-rsync" and
menu "Source -> Update-all

5) Stable-Unstable tree

To enable unstable tree and use the developers version, with a text editor edit /sw/etc/fink.conf and add "unstable/crypto unstable/main" to the "Trees" line.
You need to open it with administrator privileges. Ex "sudo pico /sw/etc/fink.conf"

>From FinkCommander's preferences -> Fink, you can enable unstable and crypto packages.

6) Install Lilypond

• From the terminal, type "fink install lilypond" or "fink install lilypond-unstable" if you
  want to use developer version.

Fink will install also libraries and other software required.
If you need to continue to work it is better that you give the following command: "nice fink install lilypond", the compilation will be done at a lower priority than any other operation.

After the download, starts the compilation stage: at the first installation on lilypond it can takes quite long time it depends on the machine. It can be one hour or more.

At the end of this stage a message within the terminal will inform you
that lilypond has been succesfully installed.

7) First test

• Open TextEdit
• Check uf the new file is called "untitled.txt" otherwhise go to Preferences and select the "text only" feature, and uncheck the options "Append .txt extension to plain text files".

In the image, you can see how your preferences should appear.
This is because lilypond need text-only file (usually they are with the extension .txt) but with the .ly extension.

• Write the following line:

{ c'4 e' g' }

• save it to the desktop with the name foo.ly
• Open the terminal and type: lilypond Desktop/foo.ly and press enter
• After the process is finished, go to your desktop and you will find various
  "foo" files with different extension.
•  Double-click the foo.pdf file and you will see the music.

8) How to get help

Help in Lilypond is provided by the lilypond-user mailing list.

•  Before to send an e-mail, try to find an answer looking inside the mailing-list-archive,
  maybe another user had the same problem
• Search the Lilypond and the Fink documentations
• Search with Google
•  If nothing helped you, send an e-mail to the lilypond-user mailing list!

In the message, please remember to put which machine you are using, wich is your operative system, and wich version of Lilypond you are using.

To check the version, type in the terminal: "lilypond -v" and press enter.

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