Difference between revisions of "Mac OS X"

Revision as of 23:42, 20 August 2011

OS X Lion

Mac OS X Lion no longer supports legacy PowerPC applications via Rosetta. In addition, Xcode 4 no longer uses the GCC compiler. At this time, the FileMaker Plugin API requires us to use the GCC 4.0 compiler.

XCode 4

The following link explains how to install Xcode 4 with the GCC 4.0 compiler, which is necessary to compile FileMaker Plugins.

Step One : Uninstall existing

If you already have Xcode installed, then uninstall it.

sudo <Xcode>/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all

...

Note : It may be necessary to restart your computer after this step before proceeding

Step Two : Install Xcode 3

Create a folder 'Xcode3' at the top level of your boot drive. This is where we will install Xcode 3 to (and not the default /Developer location)

Now, install Xcode 3 using the following steps :

Mount the Xcode 3.2.x DMG
Open Terminal
Enter the command: export COMMAND_LINE_INSTALL=1
Enter the command: open “/Volumes/Xcode and iOS SDK/Xcode and iOS SDK.mpkg”

Install Xcode 4 on OS X Lion

Important:

• Do not install "System Tools" or "Unix Development" package of Xcode3.
• We need to install "Mac OS X 10.4 SDK"
• If that is a Xcode3 with iOS SDKs, whether you install those or not is also up to you.

Make sure you select to install into the "Xcode3" folder you created above.

Step Three : Install Xcode 4

Install 'Xcode 4' as normal. You 10.4 sdk support to XCode