4.4.1 Build modes

LilyPond supports two build modes to prepare the execution of the make command.

• ‘In-tree’ compilation. This is the classical build mode of projects that use a configure script. The main disadvantage, however, is cluttering the source directory with generated files. We thus don’t recommend it except for special purposes⁶ that we don’t cover here.
• Compilation using a build directory. A common name and location is a directory called build/ in the top-level source directory; the following instructions expect exactly that.