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D For XCode Now With DMD Support

Michel Fortin has been maintaining for some time a package that simplifies using GDC with XCode on Mac. Now, in version 1.2, he has finally added support for the DMD compilers, both D1 and D2.  From his newsgroup announcement:

It's been a while since DMD has been available on Mac OS X, but I haven't made an official release of D for Xcode to support DMD. Today I'm fixing that.

So D for Xcode 2.1 now supports DMD. It comes with an installer package that does the following:

*  Install D plugin for Xcode
*  Install Xcode file and project templates for D
*  Download and install latest version of DMD 2.x
*  Download and install latest version of DMD 1.x

This means that someone can just run the installer and immediately start writing/compiling D code within Xcode. It's using DMD 2.x by default, but there is no problem installing both versions at the same time and changing the default.

You can get more information and see some screenies at the project website. When I eventually do get a Mac, I think this is one of the first packages I'll be installing.