On Monday, 21 July 2025 at 16:42:31 UTC, Albert wrote:

I think setting sodlib path in settings helped somewhat. At least errors are gone and seems to have detected the build type and compiler.

How do I build & run the executable though?

On Monday, 21 July 2025 at 17:08:17 UTC, Albert wrote:

Anyway with some perseverance I managed to build & run hello world app. Thank you guys for your help.

Though I do think D could do so much better with onboarding first time users...

On Monday, 21 July 2025 at 17:21:58 UTC, Albert wrote:

which is kinda unusual
you installing LDC (it is going with Dub)
run dub init
then write code
then dub build
and it works

On Monday, 21 July 2025 at 13:29:23 UTC, Albert wrote:

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)

Mhh ... imho the install.sh on the homepage is not pushed enough. For me this is the best (for installing the compiler and dub and the tools that come with it). For Apple Silicon ldc is the best choice (again imho).

After sourcing the activate script in the respective folder (default ~/dlang/COMPILER_VERSION/activate(.fish)) you are setup nicely with dub, so dub init, dub run should work directly.

VSCode I am not so familiar with.

Kind regards,
Christian

On Monday, 21 July 2025 at 13:29:23 UTC, Albert wrote:

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)

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

On Wednesday, 23 July 2025 at 14:12:30 UTC, Brian Callahan wrote:

When I tried it last time - it was magnitude slower than LDC solution

On Wednesday, 23 July 2025 at 14:12:30 UTC, Brian Callahan wrote:

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)

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.

On Monday, 21 July 2025 at 17:21:58 UTC, Albert wrote:

I think it's not entirely fair to say that, given that your issue was mostly that (1) you downloaded a compiler that doesn't fully support your native CPU architecture (albeit, probably because the dlang.org homepage presents DMD as the default download to macOS users), and (2) encountered a recently-fixed bug because you were using an outdated compiler version.
However, you also have to realise that the active D community is very, very small. And even fewer people actually contribute to dlang.org/Dub/DMD/DRuntime; while LDC2 and GDC are essentially single-person projects. The most active contributors are D veterans, and are often a bit blind to a first-time user's perception of things. However, until many new people adopt the language and speak up about difficulties they've had with getting started (like you have in this thread) small first-time user-experience issues may persist indefinitely.

On Thursday, 31 July 2025 at 10:19:43 UTC, IchorDev wrote:

I'd be happy to but I'm not sure how to go about it...

On Thursday, 31 July 2025 at 10:19:43 UTC, IchorDev wrote:

I did some thinking about this, and ended up writing my own script that will download, compile, and install GDC for you all automatically: https://github.com/ibara/gcc-bootstrap

Right now it only works on macOS, both arm64 and x86_64. Should be trivial to add other platforms, and it even helped me discover a bug in GDC.

Run it like this:

$ ./gcc-bootstrap.sh --bootstrap --with-d 15.2.0 /usr/local

Where /usr/local is the prefix you want to install into (this example will install gdc binaries into /usr/local/bin).

You'll need macOS 12.7.6 or later if on x86_64, 15.6 or later if on arm64. This will get you gdc-15.2.0 if on x86_64 and gdc-15.1.0 if on arm64. There is no release of GCC 15.2.0 on arm64 yet; the script will notice this and build 15.1.0 instead.

Happy to donate the script to the D team if it can be useful in promoting GDC.

~Brian