Lilypond for Intel Mac OS 10.5 finally works!

As you all know, I switched to Mac about a year ago. It was really great to have a fast machine with real Unix underpinnings to run Lilypond and various build script for dealing with my sheet music archive. When OS 10.5 (Leopard) was released last November, I upgraded right away. Unfortunately, Apple made some far reaching changes that caused several programs to stop working - among those Lilypond. Not to worry, I thought. These things sort themselves out pretty quickly. There will be an update soon ...

... or not. None of the current developers of Lilypond seem to use Mac, so we poor users were all left in the dark. And we waited, and waited, and waited ... Finally someone realised that we could run the PowerPC version unde Rosetta emulation. This worked, but it ran way too slow. Until finally ...

... Nicholas Sceaux, one of the most serious Lilypond users around, got tired of waiting and compiled the program for his own use. And he put a short writeup on how to do this on his site. To be honest, I tried to do the same thing myself several months ago, but failed on the "magic" step of where to find the dyld libraries.

Anyhow, information on how to do this is available in this post to the Lilypond mailing list.

Enjoy!