Installing ldc beta on macOS

[Serg Gini]

On Monday, 22 September 2025 at 22:34:18 UTC, Joel wrote:
> On Monday, 22 September 2025 at 10:28:42 UTC, kinke wrote:
>> On Monday, 22 September 2025 at 09:40:45 UTC, Joel wrote:
>>> (see title)
>>> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.41.0-beta1
>>>
>>> I tried homebrew, and that compiles, but doesn't run. (I've 
>>> uninstalled it from there).
>>>
>
> I don't think home brew has the latest version. How do I 
> install ldc with out home brew?

There are a plethora of options!

1) Just download archive from GitHub Releases.
Extract it to your favorite folder.
Add this folder to the PATH.
(unlock externally downloaded binary files - specific macOS 
protection)
Done.

2) This is the script from macOS D maintainer - which is 
installing LDC with some common tools into /opt/SDKs. Better to 
remove /opt/SDKs first.

```bash
# Setup SDK Root
if [[ ! -d /opt/SDKs ]]; then
     sudo mkdir -p /opt/SDKs/
     sudo chmod -R 777 /opt/SDKs

     curl -o /opt/SDKs/init.sh 
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/LunaTheFoxgirl/60cda49e9fd9b95c837f2d4c09706523/raw/7e9fee07357459dcc55df8de5ae4f40a6d5a34a4/init.sh
     chmod +x /opt/SDKs/init.sh
     echo "source /opt/SDKs/init.sh" | sudo tee -a /etc/profile
fi

echo "Setting up .buildtmp..."
mkdir .buildtmp;
cd .buildtmp

# 1. Install LDC into our new SDK Root
if [[ ! -d /opt/SDKs/ldc2 ]]; then
     echo "Downloading LDC2..."
     mkdir -p /opt/SDKs/ldc2
     curl -L 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/download/v1.41.0/ldc2-1.41.0-osx-universal.tar.xz -o ldc2.tar.xz

     echo "Extracting LDC2..."
     tar xf ldc2.tar.xz

     echo "Installing LDC2...."
     mv ldc2-1.41.0-osx-universal/* /opt/SDKs/ldc2
     export PATH=/opt/SDKs/ldc2/bin:$PATH
     rm -r ldc2*

     # 2. Install new DUB
     echo "Building latest dub from source..."
     git clone https://github.com/dlang/dub
     dub build --root=dub/ --build=release

     echo "Staging dub into /opt/SDKs/ldc2/bin..."
     cp dub/bin/dub /opt/SDKs/ldc2/bin/
fi

# 3. Build serve-d and DCD from latest source.
echo "Rebuilding serve-d and dcd..."
if [[ ! -d "/opt/SDKs/serve-d" ]]; then
     echo "Install directory not found, creating..."
     mkdir -p /opt/SDKs/serve-d/bin
     mkdir -p /opt/SDKs/dcd/bin
fi

git clone https://github.com/Pure-D/serve-d
git clone https://github.com/dlang-community/DCD

dub build --root=dcd --dest=/opt/SDKs/ --build=release 
--config=client
dub build --root=dcd --dest=/opt/SDKs/ --build=release 
--config=server
dub build --root=serve-d --build=release
cp serve-d/serve-d /opt/SDKs/serve-d/bin/

echo "Cleaning up..."
cd ..
rm -rf .buildtmp

echo "Done!"
```

3) There is also this project 
https://code.dlang.org/packages/ldcup