Doesn't compile for Swift 5 about xi-mac HOT 13 CLOSED

Do you have the ability to update to 10.14? If you're doing regular Xcode work it's probably worth it, we're going to get new Xcode betas in a few weeks (WWDC) and they'll likely require 10.14, so might be worth upgrading now?

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Definitely would be worth it.

Except, I can't. It's a long story, but...

My mac is a mid-2007 iMac. It's not allowed to run anything above El Capitan.

But I was able to upgrade the CPU and WiFi card, and then use the High Sierra Patcher tool to upgrade to High Sierra.

Then I tried upgrading to Mojave...

There is a macOS Mojave patcher tool, which I tried, but this computer has a pre-metal graphics card, so the graphics are absolutely terrible.

But there was some sort of patch on Github that I used, and it looked pretty good.

Until I realized that my computer stopped being able to turn on, at which point I just went back to High Sierra.

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This seems to be an Xcode 10.1 <-> Swift 5 issue, not one w/ Xi editor. Could this issue be closed?
(I don't mean to be dismissive, sorry! Just trying to look through a few issues to contribute to, and moving back a performance target from a year-old issue seems to be a bit out of scope.)

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Xcode Version is 10.1

from xi-mac.

Ah I see, I was confused. The problem is the inverse; we're using Swift 5, which requires Xcode 10.2, which requires macOS 10.14+.

Unfortunately, there isn't a real workaround outside of upgrading macOS, or reverting #464. :(

from xi-mac.

Oh, I see now. I'm trying to figure out a workaround by downloading the Swift 5 toolchain.

from xi-mac.

Never mind, it's going to take too much hacking of Xcode, which I don't want to mess around with as an iOS developer.

I'll try reverting #464

from xi-mac.

I understand!

What I would suggest is that you just locally revert #464, which should let everything build as usual.

from xi-mac.

same, i think?

=== BUILD TARGET XiCliCore OF PROJECT XiEditor WITH THE DEFAULT CONFIGURATION (Release) ===

Check dependencies
Swift is not supported for static libraries.

** BUILD FAILED **


The following build commands failed:
	Check dependencies
(1 failure)

from xi-mac.

Forcing users to have the newest, fanciest Mac is bad. Graceful downgrading (like to old xcode) is good.

from xi-mac.

I broadly agree; if we were distributing binaries I Would want to support back several OS versions. For development, however, I'm okay with keeping up with "latest - 1".

That said, I will concede that the move to 5.0 might have been a bit premature, it's annoying that we don't work on high sierra. 😒

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Yea, a lot of that blame can probably go to Apple for making things obsolete so quickly. The weird divide between El Capitan and Sierra was a big hurdle for me. Now I need to figure out a way to upgrade to Mojave with a graphics card that doesn't support Metal...

And now they're getting ready to release macOS Catalina?

from xi-mac.

Since xi-mac does compile with Swift 5, I’m going to close this issue.

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