Strange issue on OSX

Jeremy DeHaan via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jun 13 20:22:28 PDT 2014


On Saturday, 14 June 2014 at 02:30:56 UTC, Chris Cain wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 June 2014 at 02:12:45 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Honestly, I feel like it should be noted that you need to build 
> from source to get the 32-bit version... but I don't see why it 
> should be included in the actual binary release. Not even Apple 
> supports the 32-bit hardware anymore. AFAIK, 64-bit Macs came 
> out in late 2006, so we're talking about 8 year old hardware at 
> this point.

I didn't realize that was the case. Like I said in my original 
post, I haven't used a mac before this so I am pretty new to them.

It definitely would have been nice if it said something about 
needing to build it for 32 bit OSX though. I think that would 
have saved me a lot of time.


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