On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 09:51 +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote: […]
> 
> Because it's not available for Snow Leopard.
> 

That'll be why then.

I spent some money getting a Lion flash drive, we'll see if I can upgrade to it. If not …

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I have been somewhat reluctant to create an Apple developer account just to be able to download and install the version of Xcode I need to be able to install DMD. I will try it when I feel like spending the time. Out of curiosity, why is Xcode required to install DMD?

On 2013-01-21 06:42, Elias Zamaria wrote:
> I have been somewhat reluctant to create an Apple developer account just
> to be able to download and install the version of Xcode I need to be
> able to install DMD. I will try it when I feel like spending the time.
> Out of curiosity, why is Xcode required to install DMD?

It's required to run DMD. DMD uses GCC as the linker. Also the C standard library is part of the D standard library.

It's enough with a free account.

You can try this if you don't want to create an account:

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

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If Xcode is required to run DMD, then how did you make that custom installer for 2.060 that I installed without Xcode? If I already have GCC installed, why doesn't the installer work? What does that have to do with Xcode?

On 2013-01-21 09:41, Elias Zamaria wrote:
> If Xcode is required to run DMD, then how did you make that custom
> installer for 2.060 that I installed without Xcode? If I already have
> GCC installed, why doesn't the installer work? What does that have to do
> with Xcode?

Xcode is not needed to run the installer. Nothing special is needed to run the installer. But GCC is needed to compile using DMD. The installer doesn't work because it's built for Mac OS X 10.7 and later. I've create a pull request to make the installer work on earlier versions as well. It has been merge. But they need to rebuild the installer and upload a new one. I don't know if this has been made yet.

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I have another question: if the installer is made for 10.7 and later, then why does it say "This package is intended for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) only."? Maybe that is a mistake but a lot of people, including me before I asked about this issue, are probably confused seeing the message saying that their OS is too new when in fact it is too old.

On 2013-01-22 04:19, Elias Zamaria wrote:
> I have another question: if the installer is made for 10.7 and later,
> then why does it say "This package is intended for Mac OS X Leopard
> (10.5) only."? Maybe that is a mistake but a lot of people, including me
> before I asked about this issue, are probably confused seeing the
> message saying that their OS is too new when in fact it is too old.

That text hasn't been update for a very long time. It's nothing to worry about. You know, your free to report these issues to bugzilla:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/

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I reported the issue with the installer text. It can be seen at http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9392

I found my OS X DVD and tried to install Xcode, but I am getting a similar "The installation failed" error. If I manage to install it, I will post here about whether I still have problems installing DMD.

On Tuesday, 8 January 2013 at 04:58:00 UTC, Joshua Niehus wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 January 2013 at 04:00:25 UTC, Elias Zamaria wrote:
>> Can anyone help me with this?
>
> Do you have Xcode installed?
> If so, do you have "Command Line Tools" installed?
> Otherwise, you'll need to install Xcode (free from app store), then:
> Open Xcode -> Preferences -> Downloads -> Components -> Command Line Tools
>
> related thread:
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/nxawipcegdmbkqkalkhv@forum.dlang.org

On 2013-01-25 04:35, Elias Zamaria wrote:
> I found my OS X DVD and tried to install Xcode, but I am getting a
> similar "The installation failed" error. If I manage to install it, I
> will post here about whether I still have problems installing DMD.

I'm sorry your having so much trouble with this. You can always look at the Console to get more information. /Applications/Utilities/Console.app.

You technically should not need Xcode just for installing DMD. You should not need Xcode to run DMD either but you _do_ need GCC to run DMD.

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