On Monday, 21 July 2025 at 13:52:52 UTC, Luna wrote:
On Monday, 21 July 2025 at 13:29:23 UTC, Albert wrote:
Hi all,
I am completely new to D, wished to try it out and write a
small app in it. However, for the last couple hours I am ready
to pull my hair out as I have no idea how to compile even a
simplest hello world app.
I installed ldc and dub (nowhere on the download page did it
even mention that dub should be installed separately!) from
home-brew, installed code-d for vscode, used the plugin to
create a new project and that is as far as I've gotten.
For example the plugin prompts me to "Compile serve-d",
however doing so just fails with:
```
Error Command failed with exit code 127: rdmd
"/Users/albert/.dub/packages/dfmt/0.14.1/dfmt/dubhash.d"
Failed to install serve-d (Error code 2)
```
And so on and so forth. Am I missing something obvious?
I highly recommend using LDC2 from the official packages
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.41.0
I've additionally written a script that installs LDC 1.41 +
various tools and the latest main branch dub you can use here
https://gist.github.com/LunaTheFoxgirl/3e14a3aa977c14398c902023e567268a
Also as a sidenote, the homebrew release of the compiler is not
maintained by the D Language Foundation and in general is
relatively far behind upstream.
I recommend uninstalling any D tools you've installed via
homebrew and install using the upstream methods.
The crashes you encounter are due to a change Apple made to their
dynamic linker and thread local variable support in macOS 15.4.
LDC 1.41 fixes this issue; and unlike DMD can compile for arm64.
