I am glad to report that I was able to install Denemo thanks to these instructions from David. There were a few kinks (compounded by my own cluelessness about programming) that I had to work out in further messages with David, but we got it to run in the end.
I am excited to start engraving scores with Denemo! I hope that it will be even easier for future Mac users. Many thanks to David! On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 11:05 AM David Richmond <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>
