Mac initial experience

[Daniel Kozak]

I am using brew install ldc so never have any issue

Dne so 5. 7. 2025 12:40 uživatel Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> napsal:

> I had to install D on a new Mac machine. The initial experience
> is pretty poor right now. Tried searching, but didn't see any
> other threads about this?
>
>
> 1. dlang.org directs you to download the DMD2.pkg - however,
> MacOS will not allow you to open this: "Apple could not verify
> 'DMD2.pkg' is free of malware that may harm your Mac or
> compromise your privacy." - you have to work around this by going
> to system privacy settings and enabling it. Not a good first
> impression though.
>
> 2. Once installed, dmd just insta-crashes:
>
> $ dmd
> zsh: segmentation fault  dmd
>
> This is due to a known (and fixed on nightly) issue with TLS
> changes on the most recent Mac, but you'll only find out about
> this if you go googling for the error.
>
> 3. Finally, since dmd doesn't support arm64 yet, unless you are
> careful you are very likely to run into various linking issues
> with e.g. libraries installed with arm64 with homebrew.
>
>
> This is all a bit unfortunate, especially when we see e.g. the
> recent thread on hackernews for folks excited about D. I'm sure
> more than a handful of people decided to try out D after that
> post, and probably we lost a bunch of them due to these issue.
>
> In terms of solutions:
>
> 1. Looks like we just need to notarise the .pkg? Probably needs
> the foundation to setup an Apple Developer account if it doesn't
> already have one, then it should just be a matter of running some
> Apple command-line tools as part of deployment.
>
> 2. Really, this should have been hot-fixed once the fix made it
> to nightly. I understand a new compiler is coming soon, so maybe
> this won't be a problem for long, but perhaps worth retrospecting
> on how this managed to stay broken for so long (appears to be a
> few months now that latest dmd crashes on latest Mac).
>
> 3. I think this has been discussed before, but perhaps we should
> direct people to ldc2 for now as the main download? Or perhaps
> just make it clear on the website that dmd is x86_64 only for now
> and provide the alternatives on the homepage.
>
>
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