Ohhh, I missed the part about Cairo not working for cross-compilation yet. My bad.
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 8:51 AM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote: > Le 19/07/2022 à 15:43, DoubleFelix a écrit : > > > > Have you installed the necessary packages as explained in > > > https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/contributor/requirements-for-compiling-lilypond#ubuntu > > > > > > Ah, I had to install a C compiler. I just found instructions for how > > to do that on SO. > > > The instructions above didn't install the compiler? OK, I would have > expected them to do so ... > > > > So now I have make install ran, so how can I construct binaries for > > various platforms from this? Can you even compile to a windows binary > > from Linux? > > > It's the way we do the official releases, and in fact the _only_ way to > create Windows binaries. To do that, you need to cd into > release/binaries/ and read README.md. But the whole problem that brought > you here in the first place was that this cross-compilation system does > not support Cairo yet. So either you are ready to figure out how to > cross-compile Cairo for MinGW and link it with LilyPond, and preferably > you contribute this to LilyPond (see partial work in > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/913, it had some > problems with missing libraries), or you stick with running these Linux > binaries. in your Linux VM. > >
