I am trying to launch the D programming language compiler DMD, but the terminal is giving the following error:
dmd: failed to launch executable at /Library/Compilers/dmd2/osx/bin/dmd
But there's not folder called dmd2
under /Library/Compilers
.
I can launch the dmd compiler from this path /usr/bin/dmd
, but I don't want to type this path every time I need to compile a source code file.
This is my $PATH
:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/texbin
Is there a way that when I type dmd
it launches /usr/bin/dmd
, instead of trying to language a compiler under /Library/Compilers/dmd2/osx/bin/dmd
?
Best Answer
To answer your question, your PATH has to be modified to:
so that your shell will find
/usr/bin/dmd
before any other one called from within one of the 2Python
library directories.Please note: it is a dangerous practice to let any software not distributed by Apple to install anything within
/usr/bin
(or/bin
,/sbin
or/usr/sbin
). This is a technic used by crapware to hide themself.