Building DMD on macOS arm64 - 23 Feb 2024

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 09:50:47PM +0000, Johan via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Hi all,
>   This took me hours to figure out and work on a robust fix (hopefully) to
> `build.d` for others.
> 
> Instructions for building DMD on macOS arm64 today:
> 1. Download LDC universal package. You can use the Dlang [install.sh
> script](https://dlang.org/install.html), and pass `-arch universal`. You
> need this package to target x86_64, because DMD can only be built into an
> x86_64 binary (because of x86 assembly in its source code).
> 2. Apply this patch to build.d: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/16239
> 2. Go to DMD checkout and execute:</br>
>  `HOST_DMD="<path to ldc>/bin/ldmd2" DFLAGS="-mtriple=x86_64-apple-macos11"
> DMD="<path to ldc>/bin/ldmd2" make`
> 
> @someone:  please add this info to the right places where other people might
> find it. I really believe that this information is crucial to attract new
> contributors. If I would be new to the project and wanted to contribute
> something simple, I would certainly have given up on it. This is not
> hypothetical: on Slack, Ben Jones told us he just gave up.
[...]

Why not update this page with the info you have discovered?

	https://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor#Building_from_source


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