I want to Install any smooth working version of XCODE(for Iphone Apps development) on MAC machine having configuration as follows:-
MAC OS Z1-9.2.2,
Built In RAM-128 MB,
MAC OS ROM 9.0.1.
What are the feasibilities with that MAC.
Please help as I am just One day old for MAC.
No, it's not possible. It requires a modern Mac OS X. Xcode4 requires at least Snow Leopoard, and IIRC so does the current Xcode 3.2.x.
Even if it were possible, my Xcode4 right now occupies about 590MB of RAM at the moment of this writing. You wouldn't want to run something like that on a system with just 128MB RAM.
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I usually use a computer on snow leopard to create apps compatible upwards but I'm on holidays at the moment and only have my macbook pro with Mavericks on it.
I need to send an app to a customer who's on snow leopard (or lion)
Is this possible? Can I create a compatible app building it on Mavericks.
I'm not an expert on building on Mac, but I believe it is/can be. If the target computer also has Qt 5, then it should work.
There used to be "Universal" binaries that would work with both Intel based Macs and with Power PC based macs... I've seen that break on my Mavericks install for some things that were built with a "Universal" binary. It might be just a problem with that one or two programs I was running.
The default compiler for Mavericks and Qt 5 is clang64, and so it should work on any 64 bit Intel based mac. Make sure you are using the commandline deployment tool for qt mac deployment, so that all the dylib's get included in your app package.
Hope that helps.
Recently i upgraded to mountain lion.I want to open my old projects in older version of xcode 4.3 and i don't want to use xcode 5 for some reason.
Is there any way to open xcode 4.3 only. I have installation file of xcode 4.3 if its needed to reinstall.
It gives alert "This installation of Xcode 4.3.2 requires Mac OS X 10.7 Lion."
I know how to run my projects in other versions with old simulators... but only need 4.3
Any Suggestions?
Ignore the snarky comments by people like matheszabi; there are good reasons to support the millions of units of older devices. Tip: If you are looking at picking up older devices, you'll want to target iOS 4.2.1 not 4.3, as every device supporting 4.3 can be upgraded to iOS 5. See Highest Version of iOS Supported.
Virtualizer
To answer your question, "Any suggestions?": Use a virtualizer like Parallels, Fusion, or VirtualBox to run Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks in a virtual environment. This arrangement has many advantages, including resisting the pushing and shoving of Apple to constantly upgrade our OS, Xcode, and iOS targets.
Another advantage is a pristine working environment with its own clean Keychain, Desktop, and so forth having only items related to Xcode project(s). All my own personal stuff is kept to the real Mac. I think of the real Mac like I do my home, with personal property, while I think of the virtual Mac as my office space, my cubicle, having only work-related items.
The one thing you'll need is memory (RAM). If you want a 3 or 4 gig virtual Mac, you'll need about that much space unused on your Mac. By unused, I mean the green colored piece of pie in Activity Monitor.
My Experience
For my current project, I run Xcode 4.6.3 targeting iOS 5 & 6 in Parallels 8 (9 is now available) on a Mac mini (Late 2012) with 16 gigs of memory and i7 quad-core with 8 virtual cores driven by Mountain Lion 10.8.5 on the real Mac, while the virtual Mac has 4 gigs of memory and 2 cores. For the most part this works very well. A few bugs, but no show-stoppers.
The only bad bug is that copying text from the real Mac and pasting into the virtual Mac appends an extra mysterious invisible character that wreaks havoc, including preventing compiling of Objective-C code. I routinely do searches for that evil character, and try to make a habit of hitting Backspace after pasting text brought over from the real Mac.
Another bug: Horizontal scrolling by finger-swiping on my Apple Magic Mouse does not work in the virtual environment.
But Parallels 8 + Mountain Lion + Xcode 4.6.3 works well. You can plug in an iOS device for direct debugging via USB cable – Parallels asks whether you want the connected device to be seen by the real Mac or the virtual Mac.
I've also run earlier versions of Xcode 4 on Lion (besides Mountain Lion) in Parallels 8.
With this arrangement, I am free to consider upgrading my real Mac to Mavericks while keeping my Parallels 8 + Mountain Lion + Xcode 4.6.3 work environment intact. Though, I may need to shell out some money to upgrade my Parallels 8 to the new version 9. No such thing as a free lunch! (But this arrangement comes close)
Backups
Tell Time Machine to avoid backing up the 20-50 gig file that is your virtual Mac's hard disk. Instead, do an occasional backup of that large file. More often, make a backup of your import work files and Xcode project, copying off to Dropbox, Google Drive, or external hard drive or SD card. If that file that is your virtual Mac's hard disk ever gets corrupted, you may lose everything. So backup religiously – though I'm sure you do so anyways now. ;-)
Looks like Xcode 4.3 doesn't know about Mountain Lion, the fix would be downloading and installing Xcode 4.6.2 from developer center, which surely supports it.
I can't find information on what are the system requirements for Mac for the mobile add-on for Delphi XE4 (Professional).
My understanding is that XCode is still required to sign the app binary and to deploy it on a test device and/or App Store.
Our Mac is so old that the minimum requirement of OSX for the latest XCode won't even install.
I'd like to know if we need to have the Mac upgraded to accomodate this.
Ok - found the answer: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio/rad-studio-data-sheet.pdf second page:
PC running Windows connected with an Intel-based Mac, with 2 GB RAM
or more, running OS X
10.8 (Mountain Lion) or 10.7 (Lion) over a local area network using a SSH, VNC or Windows file sharing solution
Apologies & much appreciated if you've attempted to help me:
XCode will still be required, so of course your Mac system will have to be updated to be able to support it.
The documentation for XE3 will give you the minimums requirements for that version, and you should require XE4 to at least require those minimum requirements. As it doesn't seem your existing system meets those, you can probably be sure it won't support the requirements for XE4.
You can also contact Embarcadero Sales with pre-sales question, with the email address you'd expect (Sales at the companyname.com).
I would like to know if I can install Xcode with Windows XP.If possible please provide the document link also.Thank you very much for any help in advance...
It's certainly possible.
There are two routes;
Install OSx86 (aka iATKOS / Kalyway) on a second partition/disk and dual boot.
Run Mac OS X Server under VMWare.
The first route requires modifying (or using a pre-modified) image of Leopard that can be installed on a regular PC. This is not as hard as you would think, although your success/effort ratio will depend upon how closely the hardware in your PC matches that in Mac hardware - e.g. if you're running a Core 2 Duo on an Intel Motherboard, with a NVidia graphics card you are laughing. If you're running an AMD machine or something without SSE3 it gets a little more involved.
If you purchase (or already own) a version of Leopard then this is a gray area since the Leopard EULA states you may only run it on an "Apple Labeled" machine. As many point out if you stick an Apple sticker on your PC you're probably covered.
The second option is the more costly. The EULA for the workstation version of Leopard prevents it from being run under emulation and as a result there's no support in VMWare for this. Leopard server however CAN be run under emulation and can be used for desktop purposes. Leopard server and VMWare are expensive however.
If you're interested in option 1) I would suggest starting at Insanelymac and reading the OSx86 sections.
I do think you should consider whether the time you will invest is going to be worth the money you will save though. It was for me because I enjoy tinkering with this type of stuff and I started during the early iPhone betas, months before their App Store became available.
Alternatively you could pickup a low-spec Mac Mini from eBay. You don't need much horse power to run the SDK and you can always sell it on later if you decide to stop development or buy a better Mac.
No. You can not install XCode on a Windows machine. You need MacOS to run XCode.
Although you can install VMWare Server on your windows machine and then install MacOS on that virtual server and can install the XCode on that MacOS server.
But to install MacOS(VMWare server) and start working on it. your hardware must support virtualization.
To install VMWare following links might be useful.
http://www.petri.co.il/virtual_install_vmware_server.htm
http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/Installing_VMware_Server_2.0_on_Windows_Systems
Or there is always Google.
YOu can check if your CPU supports virtualization here.
Since Xcode is an software of Mac OS so its not possible to run Xcode without Mac OS. And for Mac OS you can dual boot your computer with a Mac OS or simply you can just use VMWare to install Mac OS in your laptop or PC. Just the necessary requirement for installing Mac OS through Dual boot or through VMWare is that you need really high configuration in your laptop or PC, Like atleast you require 5th Generation core processor with atleast 4 cores also you require more than 4GB RAM for better functioning of Mac OS. Mac OS can be installed with 2nd generation processors, Dual core, and 2 GB RAM but it will take too much time. Which is not worth installing Mac OS in your laptop or PC. And even after installing you won't be able to use Xcode efficiently with such a low configuration. So it is recommended to have 5th Generation processor with 4 core and atleast 4GB RAM.
If you have this configuration than you need some files and software to install Mac OS in your Laptop.
For installation through VMWare you can prefer to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wodqGvug6e0
And I have the required file for the same as in video but not uploaded to the internet.
How can simulate a run on a older OS X version ?
Right now my app works on 10.7 and 10.8 but I want to make it compatible with 10.6. Since I'm using some new apis I'm still compiling with the 10.8 base SDK, I can only change the deployment target.
So on my OS X 10.8, how can I simulate a run on OS X 10.6 ? (If it's possible)
Thanks
TheZ mentions virtual machines. Lots of hoops to jump through with licensing.
My personal "path of least resistance" was to use an old PPC Mac Mini and an almost-as-old intel-based. PPC runs 10.4 for old app testing; Intel mini boots various OS versions with which to test. All install images are disposable and can be restored from a network volume for a clean environment no matter what I do to it.
If you don't care about PPC, then just get a used Intel Mac Mini, partition it for the older OS versions and use it exclusively as a test environment.
2022 Update: Apple has relaxed their stance on virtualization. Today I use VMWare (Parallels works too).