Xcode 7.3 fails to present the developer with older SDKs. (We filled its SDKs folder with the links to the older SDKs which we need to build).
Needless to say that the older SDKs are needed to build kernel software running at previous OS versions.
Cheers,
Hagen.
Can you suggest a workaround or solution. I am doing platform development and I require the specific version of XCode and tools. What do you suggest be done so that I can build?
Hello, Chris!
I fully appreciate your concern. Let me explain the situation that I and others may be in. For whatever reasons, my faithful client, a long-time Apple fan, has never been able to quite keep up with Apple, and is unfortunately still shipping a large scientific application based on Metrowerks Power Plant. When this client asks me to fix something, I can either hack the current version of Xcode as described in this thread, or install and use Xcode 3. If I choose the latter, I must suffer through
• Waiting 8 minutes for a simple ⌘⇧F *Find Text in Project*
• Breakpoints that usually don't work in C++
• Using Terminal.app for all git operations
• Worst of all: Remembering how to use Xcode 3
To your point: Yes, when we build this product with the 10.6 SDK in the Xcode 6-8, it will crash inexplicably when performing certain operations. So for some debugging tasks, unfortunately I need to push changes, then use xcodebuild on an old Mac which is running Xcode 3. And, of course, I do this for release builds.
But the ability to edit, and usually build and debug this old project in Xcode 8.1 makes life livable. I hope that Apple appreciates this and would never do anything on purpose to make this any more difficult 🙂
I had the same problem in Xcode 8 my solutionn was selecting the development target i wanted.
