Hi Gabriel, There does appear to be a lot of interest in Denemo on the Mac, so here is a guide to what I did.
First, you need to install macports. Macports is a command-line utility that downloads and installs UNIX tools on Mac OS X. (This is all complicated, so get some coffee ready.) The installation guide is here: https://guide.macports.org/#installing. As the guide notes, you will also need to install Apple's XCode. You can find a MacPorts package for Catalina here: https://github.com/macports/macports-base/releases/. Once you have macports installed and have taken a tour through the usage documentation, use MacPorts to install the following prerequisite packages for Denemo (with the command sudo port install [package_name] from a Terminal command line). This is from http://denemo.org/hacking-sources/, modified to the MacPorts name and variant for each respective package. - guile - aubio - portaudio - fftw-3 - gtk3 +quartz - libxml2 - xml2 - automake - intltool - gtk-doc - libtool - gtksourceview3 +quartz - fluidsynth - autoconf - libsmf - gettext - librsvg +quartz - portmidi - libsndfile - evince +quartz - rubberband - lilypond Then, download the Denemo source here: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/denemo/denemo-2.4.0.tar.gz Unzip it in a working directory. Then, open a terminal window, change to that directory, and run: cd denemo # Run configure in another directory to not pollute your workspace with .o files mkdir bin && cd bin ../configure make make install Hope this helps.....I will also say Denemo itself has something of a learning curve. As I noted a few weeks ago to this list, I also found I needed to remap the Mac keyboard shortcut bindings. If you do not have experience running programs on Mac OS X that use GTK, recognize that you'll need to adjust your usual Mac expectations in terms of GUI behavior. David On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:11 AM Gabriel Ellsworth < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, David! > > I went to http://denemo.org/downloads-page/ and clicked the “Mac OS X” > button with a down arrow at the top of the page. It links to > http://denemo.org/downloads/denemo-2.2-darwin-x64.tar.bz2 (that is what I > downloaded). > > Are you aware of any way that I could install Denemo on my machine at this > time? > > If someone on this list has a few minutes to give me a call and walk me > through any installation steps, I would be grateful. > > I need to install the software today as I am arranging a piece for a > wedding that is only a week away. I am hoping not to have to pay to > reactivate Sibelius on my machine. > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:10 AM David Richmond <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Gabriel, >> >> What version of Denemo? Did you compile from source? I believe the binary >> packages for MacOS X have not worked for quite some time. >> >> As I wrote earlier to this list, I would like to package Denemo for Mac >> OS X as I know there is much interest in the program on this platform, but >> I also have a limited background in computer programming and I think I >> should prioritize learning and using Denemo first (which also serves to >> test Denemo on Mac). My optimistic timeline is probably end of year for >> binary packages, and about three months for a MacPorts source distribution. >> >> David >> >> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 8:03 AM Gabriel Ellsworth < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am new to Denemo and LilyPond. I tried to install Denemo this morning, >>> but when I try to open the program I get the following error message: >>> [image: image.png] >>> I have macOS Catalina (version 10.15.5). Is my OS causing the problem? >>> >>> I have no computer-programming background; apologies in advance for my >>> cluelessness. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Gabriel >>> >>
