DMD Zip for Mac OS X

Feb 28, 2015

Mike Parker

Feb 28, 2015

Nicholas Wilson

Feb 28, 2015

Ilya Yaroshenko

Feb 28, 2015

Jacob Carlborg

Feb 28, 2015

Mike Parker

On Saturday, 28 February 2015 at 06:45:58 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: > I'm not a Mac user and I'm fairly clueless about it. The DMD zip for OS X contains one executable. I assume it's a 64-bit binary. Is that true? Most likely a disk image (.dmg). (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Disk_Image)

On Saturday, 28 February 2015 at 06:45:58 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: > I'm not a Mac user and I'm fairly clueless about it. The DMD zip for OS X contains one executable. I assume it's a 64-bit binary. Is that true? Hi! Probably, yes. Anyway dmd compiles 64-bit binaries on OS X. Ilya

On 2015-02-28 07:45, Mike Parker wrote: > I'm not a Mac user and I'm fairly clueless about it. The DMD zip for OS > X contains one executable. I assume it's a 64-bit binary. Is that true? Yes. Since DMD on OS X got support for 64bit DMD has only been shipped as 64bit. There's basically no Mac computers left that doesn't support 64bit. On some older computers the kernel is run in 32bit mode even thought the CPU supports 64bit. These computers can run both 32 and 64bit binaries. If one really do want to ship a 32 and a 64bit binary the OS X way is to create a universal binary containing both the 32 and 64bit version. All system libraries on OS X are universal binaries, so cross-compiling is usually no problem. -- /Jacob Carlborg

February 28, 2015

Re: DMD Zip for Mac OS X

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On 2/28/2015 10:36 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-02-28 07:45, Mike Parker wrote:
>> I'm not a Mac user and I'm fairly clueless about it. The DMD zip for OS
>> X contains one executable. I assume it's a 64-bit binary. Is that true?
>
> Yes. Since DMD on OS X got support for 64bit DMD has only been shipped
> as 64bit. There's basically no Mac computers left that doesn't support
> 64bit. On some older computers the kernel is run in 32bit mode even
> thought the CPU supports 64bit. These computers can run both 32 and
> 64bit binaries.
>
> If one really do want to ship a 32 and a 64bit binary the OS X way is to
> create a universal binary containing both the 32 and 64bit version. All
> system libraries on OS X are universal binaries, so cross-compiling is
> usually no problem.
>
Thanks, this is what I was looking for.

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