Oh, and a follow-up question - is anybody able to confirm that Lion + Xcode 4-for-Lion will definitely be able to open (and hopefully edit) .xib files created using Xcode 5 or 6? That way I can know if there's any point in splashing out a whole £14 to upgrade that macbook to Lion...
On 30 Oct 2014, at 15:09, Jonathan Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm doing most of my development work on modern versions of OS X and Xcode, > but it would be very nice to maintain backward compatibility to Snow Leopard > in order to maintain compatibility with legacy peripheral equipment (video > cameras) that are a bit fussy about which hardware they connect to - we have > a number of old macbooks that we know are happy talking to the cameras, but > they are stuck on Snow Leopard (don't think we have the necessary install > disks to upgrade to Lion). > > Thus I have: > Ongoing development on Xcode 5 + OS 10.8 > Desire to build a binary that is back-compatible to OS 10.6 > As a bonus, it would be nice to be able to build and debug the same > source code on OS 10.6, though that is less important. > > If I just build the binary and try and run it on 10.6, it launches and > broadly works ok, but I am seeing some notifications etc never being > dispatched. I haven't investigated further because frankly I'm amazed it > launched at all. I am assuming that as a bare minimum I should be building > (on 10.8) against the appropriate SDK for 10.6. Can somebody advise on how I > should do that (and whether there is anything else I should be doing?) > > In terms of actually building direct on 10.6, the immediate obstacle is that > Xcode 3 doesn't recognise the upgraded .xib format and so I hit compile-time > errors. I suspect that I would need to upgrade the OS on the macbook in order > to install Xcode 4(*), and that seems to be a non-starter since I don't think > we have the appropriate install disks. > > (*) Googling suggests there's an anomaly where Xcode 4 for snow leopard > (specifically) is only available with a *paid* developer account... > > > So in conclusion - I appreciate that I am fighting against the current in > trying to maintain this level of back-compatibility, but if anybody could > offer any advice at all about how to keep it going for a little bit longer, > that would be very helpful. > > Cheers > Jonny > > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Xcode-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
