dmd: failed to launch executable

Rinzler via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Sep 19 11:14:24 PDT 2015


On Saturday, 19 September 2015 at 17:44:22 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Saturday, 19 September 2015 at 16:44:38 UTC, Rinzler wrote:
>>> Quick point about paths and so on: if you don't understand 
>>> what's going on, or have just made a change and want to be 
>>> sure whether it worked, always open a new terminal session 
>>> and try again. There are caches that can need emptying, 
>>> environment variables that get inadvertently set etc.
>>> I can't count the number of times I've been convinced 
>>> somethings completely broken only to start a new terminal and 
>>> find it all makes perfect sense again.
>>>
>>> Totally simple, obvious advice, I know, but nonetheless 
>>> always worth repeating.
>>
>> Thanks for the advice.
>>
>> By the way, do you know a clean way to manage the installation 
>> and eventually the uninstallation of dmd, and all libraries 
>> related to D, etc, so that I don't have anymore these kind of 
>> problems?
>
> Compilers and tools: If possible let homebrew manage 
> everything. If not feasible, use a separate folder for manually 
> installed tools, don't let them get confused with installations 
> from installers, package managers or system tools.
>
> Libraries: let dub handle them, if possible. If not possible, 
> see above.

Ok, thanks, I will try to follow those advices.


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