DMD Zip for Mac OS X

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 2/28/2015 10:36 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-02-28 07:45, Mike Parker wrote:
>> I'm not a Mac user and I'm fairly clueless about it. The DMD zip for OS
>> X contains one executable. I assume it's a 64-bit binary. Is that true?
>
> Yes. Since DMD on OS X got support for 64bit DMD has only been shipped
> as 64bit. There's basically no Mac computers left that doesn't support
> 64bit. On some older computers the kernel is run in 32bit mode even
> thought the CPU supports 64bit. These computers can run both 32 and
> 64bit binaries.
>
> If one really do want to ship a 32 and a 64bit binary the OS X way is to
> create a universal binary containing both the 32 and 64bit version. All
> system libraries on OS X are universal binaries, so cross-compiling is
> usually no problem.
>
Thanks, this is what I was looking for.