Notes for source compilation and packagers

This section is aimed at enthusiasts compiling LilyPond from source and packagers preparing LilyPond for distribution. If you are not part of either group, you can skip over this section.

• LilyPond now requires Guile version 3.0.7 or newer. As before, compiling the .scm files into bytecode is still strongly recommended: run make bytecode for compilation; then run make install-bytecode for installation.