Strange issue on OSX

Tolga Cakiroglu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 12 22:26:23 PDT 2014


In the download page, table shows for which CPU type they are 
available.

dmd.2.065.0.zip shows i386 and x86_64. So, this should run on 32 
and 64-bits.
dmd.2.065.0.dmg shows only x86_64 which is for 64-bit CPU only.

On Friday, 13 June 2014 at 04:25:38 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
> So building from source seemed to work. Is it possible that the 
> OSX version of DMD was released as a 64 bit version?
>
> On Friday, 13 June 2014 at 03:53:30 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>> Just tried downloading the .zip instead of using the 
>> installer. I got the same problem. I also tried downloading 
>> 2.064, and again I got the same error message. I did notice 
>> that not everything give me the Bad CPU Type error message. 
>> I'll try building from source and see how that goes.
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, 12 June 2014 at 23:12:38 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>>> I wanted to try out OSX to make sure all my stuff was working 
>>> fine there as well, but after downloading DMD and then 
>>> running it in the terminal to make sure everything was good 
>>> it gives me this error:
>>> /usr/bin/dmd: Bad CPU type in executable
>>>
>>>
>>> This is my first time using a Mac, so I could very well be 
>>> doing something wrong. I didn't want to spend a lot of money, 
>>> so it is a slightly older machine currently running OSX 
>>> 10.6.8. It is an Intel Core Duo, which apparently won't let 
>>> me upgrade to Mavericks, so I'm stuck with Snow Leopard.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any advice for what I should do? Anyone seen this error 
>>> before?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>   Jeremy



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