Is VisualD compatible with M1s?

[WebFreak001]

On Monday, 13 June 2022 at 11:37:33 UTC, tastyminerals wrote:
> On Monday, 13 June 2022 at 11:34:39 UTC, tastyminerals wrote:
>> It's been more than half a year since my last try. Still no 
>> luck. The syntax highlighting works, but no autocompletion on 
>> M1 Mac. I am using ldc compiler 1.27.1 and VisualD 0.23.2 
>> plugin. Does anyone with M1 have it working?
> (facepalming) I meant code-d VSCode plugin of course...

I'm not sure what's broken on M1 right now. Are you on nightly 
serve-d build? There have been some linker errors introduced 
recently which I need to fix still to get nightly builds to work 
again (just unittests broken though because of 
-checkaction=context)

You could try to compile serve-d from source yourself and put it 
in code-d, although autocompletion with DCD might still not work 
on M1 with the precompiled binaries.

Build serve-d:
```
git clone https://github.com/Pure-D/serve-d.git
cd serve-d
dub build --compiler=ldc2
```

then try to use it in code-d by setting the user setting 
`d.servedPath` to `/path/to/serve-d` and reloading the window.

Then verify that basic syntax checking works in a simple hello 
world project (test that you get red squiggly lines for syntax 
errors)
- if this doesn't work serve-d fails to run somehow

if that works, try out if auto completion of local symbols work. 
(define some function or variable named foobar and try to 
autocomplete it in your main function)
- if this doesn't work DCD is broken

if that works, import std.stdio and try to autocomplete writeln 
in your main function.
- if this doesn't work there is some problem with stdlib import 
detection

if that works, then DUB packages and build_commands.json should 
work as well (if using supported feature sets)

if anything in that list doesn't work, send your error log or a 
link to it here. (VSCode Output Tab -> code-d/serve-d log)

If it's just DCD that's broken you can try compiling that from 
source as well:

```
git clone https://github.com/dlang-community/DCD
cd DCD
dub build --compiler=ldc2 --config=server
```

and setting `d.dcdServerPath` to the resulting dcd-server binary 
(in bin directory)

but do reply to here anyway if you needed to create any of these 
self-compiled binaries.