I'm still tempted to grab a used Mac so I can port my display stuff to Cocoa and test it, but Macs are outrageously expensive and I hate them, so want to spend as little as possible.

What does dmd minimally require on a mac? If I got like a 10.5 would that work?

i'm considering something like
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MB138LL-Intel-Drive-Combo/dp/B0006HU49Y/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1433962021&sr=8-5&keywords=used+mac+mini

On 2015-06-10 18:55:26 +0000, Adam D. Ruppe said:

> I'm still tempted to grab a used Mac so I can port my display stuff to Cocoa and test it, but Macs are outrageously expensive and I hate them, so want to spend as little as possible.

Well, I would go at least for a 64-bit system. Otherwise even the little money is sunk money. So a 64-bit Mac-Mini should do the job.

> What does dmd minimally require on a mac? If I got like a 10.5 would that work?

I think the 32bit version will work on such a system. IMO the requirements are not that demanding.

However, I think after some time you like an OSX environment for development. It's a quite nice blend of good usability with a Unix flavour at hand. Won't change back to anything else until Apple becomes the next Microsoft.

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On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 18:55:27 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> I'm still tempted to grab a used Mac so I can port my display stuff to Cocoa and test it, but Macs are outrageously expensive and I hate them, so want to spend as little as possible.
>
> What does dmd minimally require on a mac? If I got like a 10.5 would that work?
>
> i'm considering something like
> http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MB138LL-Intel-Drive-Combo/dp/B0006HU49Y/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1433962021&sr=8-5&keywords=used+mac+mini

I don't know what the robustness and intellectual property aspects are these days.  But would a hackintosh do the trick ?

http://lifehacker.com/5938332/how-to-run-mac-os-x-on-any-windows-pc-using-virtualbox

On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 20:18:06 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 18:55:27 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> I'm still tempted to grab a used Mac so I can port my display stuff to Cocoa and test it, but Macs are outrageously expensive and I hate them, so want to spend as little as possible.
>>
>> What does dmd minimally require on a mac? If I got like a 10.5 would that work?
>>
>> i'm considering something like
>> http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MB138LL-Intel-Drive-Combo/dp/B0006HU49Y/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1433962021&sr=8-5&keywords=used+mac+mini
>
> I don't know what the robustness and intellectual property aspects are these days.  But would a hackintosh do the trick ?
>
> http://lifehacker.com/5938332/how-to-run-mac-os-x-on-any-windows-pc-using-virtualbox

A couple of weeks ago I tried this (but I used VMware player, instead of virtualbox) and it seemed to work well on OSX 10.10

On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 18:55:27 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> I'm still tempted to grab a used Mac so I can port my display stuff to Cocoa and test it, but Macs are outrageously expensive and I hate them, so want to spend as little as possible.
>
> What does dmd minimally require on a mac? If I got like a 10.5 would that work?
>
> i'm considering something like
> http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MB138LL-Intel-Drive-Combo/dp/B0006HU49Y/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1433962021&sr=8-5&keywords=used+mac+mini

You can try to register as a developer: https://developer.apple.com/programs/ and get beta versions of OSX and install them on virtual box. Not sure how much it costs.

Whee, $99/year.

On 2015-06-11 13:34, Kagamin wrote:

> You can try to register as a developer:
> https://developer.apple.com/programs/ and get beta versions of OSX and
> install them on virtual box. Not sure how much it costs.

OS X is free, you just need a Mac to download it :)

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 2015-06-10 20:55, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> I'm still tempted to grab a used Mac so I can port my display stuff to
> Cocoa and test it, but Macs are outrageously expensive and I hate them,
> so want to spend as little as possible.
>
> What does dmd minimally require on a mac? If I got like a 10.5 would
> that work?

Maybe, but I wouldn't even try to run it on something lower than 10.6. I haven't tried to run it on anything lower than 10.7 in a couple of years but I would say 10.6 is the absolute minimum requirements.

I think we should considering making the requirement 10.7 or later, at some point. Because in 10.7 Apple implemented native TLS. This is also the minimum requirement for LDC.

I'm running a OS X 10.7 on Macbook from 2006, it's working perfectly fine. Although the whole computer it's quite slow, it only has 2 GB of RAM.

As for running on a PC in a virtual machine, it's quite cumbersome to do, but it's doable.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 2015-06-10 20:55, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

> i'm considering something like
> http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MB138LL-Intel-Drive-Combo/dp/B0006HU49Y/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1433962021&sr=8-5&keywords=used+mac+mini

You can look up the requirements for OS X and see which is the latest version you can run on that particular machine.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 07:17:44 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> I'm running a OS X 10.7 on Macbook from 2006, it's working perfectly fine. Although the whole computer it's quite slow, it only has 2 GB of RAM.


Thanks everyone. A coworker says he is selling an old Mac of his from 2010 and it sounds like I can make D work, so I think I'm going to snatch that up and see about starting to officially support macs in my libs (beyond just "it is close enough to posix with x11" which is what I'm doing now)