Greetings,
I am using an apple M1 chip laptop and I am trying to setup vs code for D development.
I have installed ldc2 and dub, but I cannot see any rdmd in brew. I understand that dmd has not yet been ported to apple silicon, but does rdmd require dmd?
Subsequently, my machine is unable to compile code-d as it requires rdmd.


Log for those who are interested.

Installing into /Users/u1/.vscode/extensions/webfreak.code-d-0.23.2/bin
> git clone --recursive https://github.com/Pure-D/serve-d.git serve-d
Cloning into 'serve-d'...
> git checkout v0.7.6
Note: switching to 'v0.7.6'.

You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental
changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this
state without impacting any branches by switching back to a branch.

If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
do so (now or later) by using -c with the switch command. Example:

  git switch -c <new-branch-name>

Or undo this operation with:

  git switch -

Turn off this advice by setting config variable advice.detachedHead to false

HEAD is now at fc9df49 v0.7.6, OpenSSL 3.2+ fix
> /opt/homebrew/bin/dub upgrade
   Upgrading project in /Users/u1/.vscode/extensions/webfreak.code-d-0.23.2/bin/serve-d/
             Not upgrading sub package in http
             Not upgrading sub package in lsp
             Not upgrading sub package in serverbase

Note: specify -s to also upgrade sub packages.
> /opt/homebrew/bin/dub build --compiler=ldc2
     Warning
     Warning ## Warning for package serve-d, configuration unittest-optimized ##
     Warning
     Warning The following compiler flags have been specified in the package description
     Warning file. They are handled by DUB and direct use in packages is discouraged.
     Warning Alternatively, you can set the DFLAGS environment variable to pass custom flags
     Warning to the compiler, or use one of the suggestions below:
     Warning
     Warning debugInfo: Call DUB with --build=debug
     Warning optimize: Call DUB with --build=release
     Warning unittests: Call DUB with --build=unittest
     Warning
     Warning Invalid source/import path: /Users/u1/.dub/packages/dfmt/0.14.1/dfmt/bin
     Warning Invalid source/import path: /Users/u1/.dub/packages/dscanner/0.11.1/dscanner/bin
     Warning Invalid source/import path: /Users/u1/.dub/packages/dcd/0.13.6/dcd/bin
     Pre-gen Running commands for dfmt
/bin/sh: rdmd: command not found
Error Command failed with exit code 127: rdmd "/Users/u1/.dub/packages/dfmt/0.14.1/dfmt/dubhash.d"
Failed to install serve-d (Error code 2)

On 15/06/2024 4:43 PM, pubnoconst wrote:
> Greetings, I am using an apple M1 chip laptop and I am trying to setup vs code for D development. I have installed ldc2 and dub, but I cannot see any rdmd in brew. I understand that dmd has not yet been ported to apple silicon, but does rdmd require dmd? Subsequently, my machine is unable to compile code-d as it requires rdmd.

All three compilers should distribute rdmd, it can work with any one of them.

Whatever compiler its built with will become the one it prefers.