OSX support in dmd appears to be having problems

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 17/10/2025 7:33 PM, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> On 17/10/2025 5:56 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 10/16/2025 3:53 PM, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>>> Given that I just got an email stating that osx-13 runners is going 
>>> away and to upgrade to osx-15-intel its probably a good idea to 
>>> upgrade and see if that solves it.
>>>
>>> We will be skipping osx-14 for the runner as it only comes in -large 
>>> variant and that's paid I think.
>>
>> Yes, concentrate on supporting the latest osx.
> 
> I was fortunately wrong, there is a non-large variant we can use for free.
> 
> Looks like I'm bumping the bootstrap compiler though otherwise it has be 
> disabled. See: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/issues/21986
> 
> osx-15 currently isn't possible: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/issues/21987
> 
> As for 14, I'm getting "fun" CI failures like: https://github.com/dlang/ 
> dmd/actions/runs/18582588519/job/52980300787?pr=21985
> 
> Another where github.com wasn't able to be located. Ah dns what joy.

Oh and somebody needs to remove the requirement on: "macOS 13 x64, DMD 
(bootstrap)" in the admin settings of dmd repo. Which I can't do.