On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:33:24 +0200 Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2013-08-12 09:33, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > > Thanks, I was indeed able to compile DMD/phobos on the system > > (after a loooong and surprisingly non-trivial download and install > > process for xcode/gcc). > > Oh, really? I guess I forgot to mention that you need to install the > command line tools as well. > Actually, what really took the most time by far was just downloading xcode - that sucker's like 1 or 2 gigs! All in all that wasn't too bad though. The most awkward thing about the whole deal was just using an OS that I'm *really* not accustomed to ;) > > There did appear to be an issue with the tools repo, as I got errors > > about "dustmite" being a directory instead of a file, which kinda > > surprised me b/c I thought OSX was case-sensitive? (The tools repo > > *does* have the dustmite sources in a subdirectory named > > "DustMite".) > > No, HFS+, the filesystem on Mac OS X, is by default _not_ > case-sensitive. I have hit one or two issues with this but in general > it's not a problem. If you want, it's possible to choose > case-sensitive, but that would most likely require you to reinstall > the system. > I see. In that case, the "tools"'s posix.mak needs to be fixed, ideally by generating the executables into a subdirectory instead of tools's root. I'll put together a pull req.
