Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanw...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 4:05 PM Juan Lucas Rey <juanlucas...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello >> >> I am currently an Engineer working regularly with C++17 at Bloomberg, and >> would like to be a contributor to lilypond. In particular I would like to >> take as first objective to make it compatible with 64 bit compilation. >> >> Is this an objective that is desirable by the rest of the team? Was it >> attempted before? > > > I think LilyPond already works well on 64-bit architectures. (I'm using it > on a x86_64 laptop currently). What makes you think it needs more > work?
His headers show "X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3608.120.23.2.4)" so this is likely a guess regarding the lack of availability of a 64-bit MacOSX version from the main site. Unfortunately, that's rather an Apple licensing issue. Addressing it would likely require moving the MacOSX compilation environment on GUB <https://lilypond.org/gub> from Apple's proprietary SDKs (which don't have anything allowing cross-compilation for 64bit systems) to a form of free Darwin-only. Certainly a worthwhile goal but probably quite different from what the OP thinks the problem is here. -- David Kastrup
