Lilypond Mac OS X build issue

Question

I am trying to do a clean build of Lilypond on a clean install of Mac OS X. Dependencies have been installed using Brew.

I do ./configure && make all in the Lilypond dir. It gets through the configure and starts building but ends on ERROR: In procedure dynamic-link: ERROR: file: "libguile-srfi-srfi-1-v-3", message: "file not found"

I know what libguile is, I don't know if it's on my system (or where it ought to be) but the configure script completes successfully and does not identify it as a missing dependency so I assume it was able to find it.

Any suggestions? Googling shows some old hints with regards to setting $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but it seems these don't apply to Mac OS 10.6.

Answer 1

There is a port of lilypond available from MacPorts.

$ port info lilypond
lilypond @2.12.3, Revision 3 (textproc)
Variants:             [+]docs, gui, universal

Description:          Lilypond is a unix-based automated engraving system that generates beautiful sheet music from input files. Lilypond uses its
                      own input format, .ly, which in many ways is similar to LaTeX. Lilypond can export sheet music to PDF, EPS, SVG, and PNG
                      formats, and can also create MIDI files.
Homepage:             http://lilypond.org/

Library Dependencies: fontforge, ghostscript, mftrace, guile, texinfo, pango, flex, urw-fonts, netpbm
Platforms:            darwin
License:              unknown
Maintainers:          [email protected], [email protected]

Answer 2

See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/contributor/problems. See also http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2010-09/msg00258.html.