rdmd problems (OS X Leopard, DMD 2.052)

[Paolo Invernizzi]

Hi Magnus,

This is sligthly OT, but... How I loved AnyGui!
It's nice to see you here, in the D bandwagon...

Cheers, 
Paolo Invernizzi

Magnus Lie Hetland Wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> When I installed DMD 2.051 on my OS X boxen, the rdmd executable didn't 
> work. I saw others have similar problems online, and concluded that it 
> must have been compiled for a more recent version of OS X (Snow 
> Leopard, I guess) without the necessary compatibility flags.
> 
> I found the rdmd sources online [1] and compiled them myself. (Luckily, 
> the other binaries work just fine.) No problems.
> 
> Now I'm trying to get DMD 2.052 to work. Same issue with the rdmd 
> executable. I tried to compile the same rdmd.d file with the new 
> compiler/stdlib, but that failed.
> 
> $ dmd rdmd.d
> std.contracts has been scheduled for deprecation. Please use 
> std.exception instead.
> std.date and std.dateparse have been scheduled for deprecation. Please 
> use std.datetime instead.
> rdmd.d(34): Error: std.regexp.split at 
> ./../../src/phobos/std/regexp.d(498) conflicts with std.string.split at 
> ./../../src/phobos/std/string.d(69)
> rdmd.d(34): Error: function std.regexp.split (string s, RegExp pattern) 
> is not callable using argument types (string)
> rdmd.d(34): Error: expected 3 function arguments, not 1
> 
> I'm sure I can fix this myself -- but I'm guessing there must be a more 
> recent version of the rdmd sources somewhere, assuming that the binary 
> in the distribution was compiled with dmd 2.052...? The version in the 
> trunk at dsource.org seems to be three months old...
> 
> For now I just compiled the rdmd.d from dsource.org with dmd 2.051, and 
> use that with dmd 2.052. As rdmd is basically an independent entity, I 
> guess that should work well, but this isn't exactly user-friendly 
> (i.e., having to replace one of the binaries in the distro with one 
> compiled with an older compiler, using sources obtained elsewhere... 
> :->).
> 
> Not sure if I'm missing The Way to Do It[tm], or if perhaps I should 
> submit an issue about this?
> 
> [1] http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/rdmd.html
> 
> -- 
> Magnus Lie Hetland
> http://hetland.org
>