is there any way to force newer versions of Xcode to run on older Mac OS X versions? What is the basic reason why Xcode 11 can't run on, say, High Sierra?
in some cases, you can hack the Info.plist to make apps run on unsupported OSes. however, with something like Xcode, it's likely to rely very deeply on new system framework that simply aren't there.
IOW, the "basic reason" is that you'd get a gazillion equivalents of
MissingMethodExceptions
well I guess they can use some of the newer APIs in the newest OS
yup
you might be able to run a Mojave or Catalina VM inside a High Sierra host, btw
But how would I get the installer?
App store always sez, "This version of macOS 10.15.4 cannot be installed on this computer."
https://www.winytips.com/download-macos-dmg-full-offline-installer/
check the "Download macOS Catalina 10.15.4 offline installer" section
that points to a sketchy tool that you can open, then you get a Tools menu, and there you can download it
i'm… not really sure why Apple makes that so hard
Thanks for that. When you say "sketchy" does that mean I need to worry about malware?
you can also try https://github.com/munki/macadmin-scripts and run that with
--help. maybe it lets you just download the package without running it. if so, I think you can just drag that into VMware when creating a VM
i can't really test this stuff because my machine does run Catalina
I should just buy a new Mac. lol.
I'll look at the other solutions though.
Like maybe spoof being the App Store app and report a different OS version to the server?
that's a 7 Gig file that seems to be the one
softwareupdate fetches
VMware fusion doesn't like the mounted DMG I extracted from it. I'm looking into this as a viable solution:
The current stable version is able to build against Xcode 11.5 without issues but if you want our next build candidates you can find them here xamarin/xamarin-macios#8475
that said current released stable is capable of building against Xcode 11.5 just fine
DesignerRemoteException
This is the Xamarin.iOS SDK development channel if you are having issues with Visual Studio I would suggest going to https://gitter.im/xamarin/VisualStudio
YMMV on going ahead of official releases, we try to keep all of our release branches in the best shape possible so you can go and pick the latest HEAD of a release branch and try yourself, if you want to go back to previous "official" build you can do that using the Visual Studio updater
I'm having problems with VS Mac 2019 preview complaining that it can't open storyboards because I need xCode 8 or higher installed. I have always had 11.4 installed so I don't know why this is happening. I have the latest Preview version installed. Furthermore, I have the latest Preview version installed on my Windows machine as well, but whenever it tries to connect to the Mac is says I need to downgrade Xamarin.iOS from .20 to .15. Why is this happening?
also open Xcode 11.4, sometimes the installation is not 100% complete (additional downloads) until it’s opened
I am running a build just to get some results to be reported to SonarQube
I don't care about the signing step
Can't seem to find the Property that allows skipping this
Maybe I could just set
IsMacEnabled to false?
