Installing D on MacOS X Leopard box

Duke Normandin dukeofperl at ml1.net
Tue May 25 04:29:26 PDT 2010


On Tue, 25 May 2010, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> "Duke Normandin" <dukeofperl at ml1.net> wrote in message
> news:mailman.43.1274754397.24349.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> > Hello list...
> >
> > I'm new to D, but not programming.
>
> Welcome to D :)

Thank you!

> > I've followed the instructions on
> >
> > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/dmd-osx.html
> >
> > However, I keep on getting this error:
> >
> > dnormandin@ ~/programming/dmd2/code
> > 04:38 pm >> dmd -w firstApp.d
> > object.d: Error: module object is in file 'object.d' which cannot be
> > read
> > import path[0] = /etc/../../src/phobos
> > import path[1] = /etc/../../src/druntime/import
> >
> > My guess is that dmd.conf is hosed somehow. I haven't edited the
> > default one - I've got it living in /etc/.
> > --
> > Duke
>
> Looks like those instructions need to be fixed.

I'm glad that in my noobiness, I've been able to contribute
_something_ ;)

> The file dmd.conf is expecting to live in the same directory as the DMD
> executable (ie, "{wherever you unzipped DMD}/osx/bin/" ). Deleting it out of
> /etc/ should work. Or, if you really wanted, you could edit it (it's a
> pretty simple text file) and change the paths to point to the right places
> (Just replace "%@P%" with ""{wherever you unzipped DMD}/osx/bin/")

Kinda thought so - but thought I'd ask first, _before_ I started
hacking and chopping.

> BTW, these sorts of things are probably best asked over in
> "digitalmars.D.learn".

Thanks for the heads-up!
-- 
Duke


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