Thank you, this reply from Ken answers the query about 10.6 Intel and early Qt5 usefulness:
> Now I did get qt5.4 to build on 10.6, with moderate efforts, but it was not overly useful because by the time I did that, not much software would still build against qt5.4 anyway. On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 10:37 PM <chrischa...@gmx.us> wrote: > On 7/29/23 at 6:51 AM, Sergio Had wrote: > > > Does Qt5 work on 10.5–10.6 Intel? > > > > It looks that at least earlier 5.x versions installed on 10.6: > https://ports.macports.org/port/qt53/stats > > Presumably that should be fixable for 10.5 and PPC. > > (I am not sure if 5.3 is of much use though – do developers of ports > depending on Qt5 support it still?) > > > > P. S. Given how much efforts it takes every time to fix something for > Qt4, even if it means just digging out a right version and reverting some > commits, I start asking a question if it is easier just to fix some early > 5.x version. There should not be anything arch-specific, it should be just > C++, I guess. Just find fallbacks for whatever misses in SDK, but if it > works on 10.6 Intel, it might be pretty feasible. > > > > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/64570 > > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/64932#comment:10 > > >
