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digitalmars.D - Building DMD on macOS arm64 - 23 Feb 2024

reply Johan <j j.nl> writes:
Hi all,
   This took me hours to figure out and work on a robust fix 
(hopefully) to `build.d` for others.

Instructions for building DMD on macOS arm64 today:
1. Download LDC universal package. You can use the Dlang 
[install.sh script](https://dlang.org/install.html), and pass 
`-arch universal`. You need this package to target x86_64, 
because DMD can only be built into an x86_64 binary (because of 
x86 assembly in its source code).
2. Apply this patch to build.d: 
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/16239
2. Go to DMD checkout and execute:</br>
  `HOST_DMD="<path to ldc>/bin/ldmd2" 
DFLAGS="-mtriple=x86_64-apple-macos11" DMD="<path to 
ldc>/bin/ldmd2" make`

 someone:  please add this info to the right places where other 
people might find it. I really believe that this information is 
crucial to attract new contributors. If I would be new to the 
project and wanted to contribute something simple, I would 
certainly have given up on it. This is not hypothetical: on 
Slack, Ben Jones told us he just gave up.

-Johan
Feb 23
next sibling parent "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh qfbox.info> writes:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 09:50:47PM +0000, Johan via Digitalmars-d wrote:

 Hi all,
   This took me hours to figure out and work on a robust fix (hopefully) to
 `build.d` for others.
 
 Instructions for building DMD on macOS arm64 today:
 1. Download LDC universal package. You can use the Dlang [install.sh
 script](https://dlang.org/install.html), and pass `-arch universal`. You
 need this package to target x86_64, because DMD can only be built into an
 x86_64 binary (because of x86 assembly in its source code).
 2. Apply this patch to build.d: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/16239
 2. Go to DMD checkout and execute:</br>
  `HOST_DMD="<path to ldc>/bin/ldmd2" DFLAGS="-mtriple=x86_64-apple-macos11"
 DMD="<path to ldc>/bin/ldmd2" make`
 
  someone:  please add this info to the right places where other people might
 find it. I really believe that this information is crucial to attract new
 contributors. If I would be new to the project and wanted to contribute
 something simple, I would certainly have given up on it. This is not
 hypothetical: on Slack, Ben Jones told us he just gave up.


[...]

Why not update this page with the info you have discovered?

	https://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor#Building_from_source


T

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Feb 23
prev sibling parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
Thank you for taking the time to help out with this. As H.S.Teoh replied, the 
wiki.dlang.org is the perfect place for it.
Feb 23