• Joshua Niehus (15/15) Oct 31 2012 I'm trying to write up a tutorial for D+vibed and have stumbled
• Jacob Carlborg (15/28) Nov 01 2012 It's not just the installer that depends on having Xcode installed, D
• Joshua Niehus (4/6) Nov 01 2012 I see, thanks Jacob. I'll stick with the Xcode->cmd line tools

"Joshua Niehus" <jm.niehus gmail.com> writes:

I'm trying to write up a tutorial for D+vibed and have stumbled 
on a pretty basic issue.  The DMD installer for OSX fails out of 
the box on Lion and Mountain Lion because Apple got rid of their 
developer command line tools stuff:
http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/27985816073/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-riding-a-mountain-lion

So basically the install process for new mac users is:
1. Get Xcode
2. Install Command Line tools via Xcode preferences
3. Run DMD mac installer

Obvious first question:
D needs Xcode to run? <sigh>

Is this going to be fixed in the next release or should I just 
point to the .zip package instead?

Thanks,
Josh

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2012-11-01 06:04, Joshua Niehus wrote:
 I'm trying to write up a tutorial for D+vibed and have stumbled on a
 pretty basic issue.  The DMD installer for OSX fails out of the box on
 Lion and Mountain Lion because Apple got rid of their developer command
 line tools stuff:
 http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/27985816073/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-riding-a-mountain-lion


 So basically the install process for new mac users is:
 1. Get Xcode
 2. Install Command Line tools via Xcode preferences
 3. Run DMD mac installer

 Obvious first question:
 D needs Xcode to run? <sigh>

 Is this going to be fixed in the next release or should I just point to
 the .zip package instead?

It's not just the installer that depends on having Xcode installed, D 
depends on it. DMD uses GCC as the linker.

If you don't want to install the whole Xcode package, Apple has started 
to release just the command line tools:

https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action

The package is called "Command Line Tools (<os>) for Xcode", where <os> 
is "OS X Lion" or "OS X Mountain Lion". You need to register a free 
account to access this page.

This is a non-official alternative:

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

I think this should be stated at the Downloads page.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8927

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

"Joshua Niehus" <jm.niehus gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 1 November 2012 at 07:30:58 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
 It's not just the installer that depends on having Xcode 
 installed, D depends on it. DMD uses GCC as the linker.

I see, thanks Jacob.  I'll stick with the Xcode->cmd line tools 
instructions then and sprinkle in a little more detail about why.