I'm trying to write up a tutorial for D+vibed and have stumbled on a pretty basic issue.  The DMD installer for OSX fails out of the box on Lion and Mountain Lion because Apple got rid of their developer command line tools stuff:
http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/27985816073/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-riding-a-mountain-lion

So basically the install process for new mac users is:
1. Get Xcode
2. Install Command Line tools via Xcode preferences
3. Run DMD mac installer

Obvious first question:
D needs Xcode to run? <sigh>

Is this going to be fixed in the next release or should I just point to the .zip package instead?

Thanks,
Josh

On 2012-11-01 06:04, Joshua Niehus wrote:
> I'm trying to write up a tutorial for D+vibed and have stumbled on a
> pretty basic issue.  The DMD installer for OSX fails out of the box on
> Lion and Mountain Lion because Apple got rid of their developer command
> line tools stuff:
> http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/27985816073/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-riding-a-mountain-lion
>
>
> So basically the install process for new mac users is:
> 1. Get Xcode
> 2. Install Command Line tools via Xcode preferences
> 3. Run DMD mac installer
>
> Obvious first question:
> D needs Xcode to run? <sigh>
>
> Is this going to be fixed in the next release or should I just point to
> the .zip package instead?

It's not just the installer that depends on having Xcode installed, D depends on it. DMD uses GCC as the linker.

If you don't want to install the whole Xcode package, Apple has started to release just the command line tools:

https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action

The package is called "Command Line Tools (<os>) for Xcode", where <os> is "OS X Lion" or "OS X Mountain Lion". You need to register a free account to access this page.

This is a non-official alternative:

https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer

I think this should be stated at the Downloads page.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8927

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Thursday, 1 November 2012 at 07:30:58 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> It's not just the installer that depends on having Xcode installed, D depends on it. DMD uses GCC as the linker.

I see, thanks Jacob.  I'll stick with the Xcode->cmd line tools instructions then and sprinkle in a little more detail about why.