Strange issue on OSX

Jeremy DeHaan via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jun 13 19:12:44 PDT 2014


On Friday, 13 June 2014 at 15:14:00 UTC, Tolga Cakiroglu wrote:
> On Friday, 13 June 2014 at 07:13:36 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 13/06/14 07:26, Tolga Cakiroglu wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> That's not correct. The zip file only contains 64bit. DMD for 
>> OS X has only been released as 64bit for quite a while now.
>>
>> Just run the "file" command on the dmd executable to see which 
>> platforms it supports.
>
> Well, then somebody should update what the download page lists 
> there. At least make it clear and "correct". If I and others 
> think or cannot understand which one to download correctly, 
> that means there is a problem.

I agree. Also, this page (http://dlang.org/dmd-osx.html) says 
that the base requirement is a 32 bit OSX. Why is the DMD version 
that is released 64 bit? That seems very counter intuitive.


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