On Wednesday, 23 July 2025 at 14:12:30 UTC, Brian Callahan wrote:
On Monday, 21 July 2025 at 13:29:23 UTC, Albert wrote:
Hi all,
I am completely new to D, wished to try it out and write a
small app in it. However, for the last couple hours I am ready
to pull my hair out as I have no idea how to compile even a
simplest hello world app.
I installed ldc and dub (nowhere on the download page did it
even mention that dub should be installed separately!) from
home-brew, installed code-d for vscode, used the plugin to
create a new project and that is as far as I've gotten.
For example the plugin prompts me to "Compile serve-d",
however doing so just fails with:
```
Error Command failed with exit code 127: rdmd
"/Users/albert/.dub/packages/dfmt/0.14.1/dfmt/dubhash.d"
Failed to install serve-d (Error code 2)
```
And so on and so forth. Am I missing something obvious?
I know you got things going with LDC, but I use GDC for all my
D needs on macOS. I have a tarball that's a simple extract, add
to PATH, and done:
https://github.com/ibara/aarch64-apple-darwin24.2.0-gcc-14.2.0/releases/tag/20250112
I'd love if you could get that added to the install.sh script.
I've attempted and failed to build GDC on macOS ~4 times. It's
such a huge pain because you need a functioning copy of GDC9, and
finding one that the GCC build system recognises is seemingly
impossible.
