On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 01:13:36PM +1100, macpo...@raf.org wrote: > > Il lun 7 mar 2022, 12:38 Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> ha scritto: > > > > > On Feb 26, 2022, at 12:04, Haren Samarasinghe wrote: > > > > > > > After reading the installation guide [1], quite a few people that I've > > > introduced MacPorts to have thought that a full XCode installation is > > > required. They're uncertain of doing this due to the large amount of space > > > it requires. > > > > > > > > In reality, I'd say that the majority of ports only require the command > > > line tools. In the scenarios where XCode is required for a port, the user > > > is normally alerted to this. > > > > > > > > I was planning on changing the docs [1][2] to show that XCode isn't > > > required, but I wanted to first check whether this would be an acceptable > > > change. > > > > > > Yes that's a good idea. > > > > > > If the port you're installing (and its dependencies) are available as > > > binaries, you do not need Xcode and you do not need the command line > > > tools. > > > MacPorts will just install the binaries. MacPorts will probably print > > > warnings about Xcode and/or CLT being missing but in this case they can be > > > ignored. > > > > > > If the port (or its dependencies) are not available as binaries, you'll > > > probably need either Xcode or the command line tools. If you don't have > > > them installed, you'll get warnings, and then probably a build failure. > > > > > > Some ports need Xcode to build. These are (hopefully) marked with > > > "use_xcode yes". If you try to install such a port and you do not have > > > Xcode installed, MacPorts will tell you to install it. > > On a related note, the other day I was on my brother's > 10.14 mac, and I needed to migrate its macports from > a version for 10.13. There are instructions at > https://guide.macports.org/#installing.xcode that say: > > 2.1.1. Install Xcode on OS X 10.9 or Later > Download the latest version of Xcode from the Apple developer > website or get it using the Mac App Store. > > But the latest version of XCode is incompatible with 10.14, > and the Mac App Store won't install it (or any other version). > So those instructions might need an update. > > https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration says: > > Install the latest version of Xcode that is compatible with your OS. > Open the Xcode application once after installation and follow any prompts. > > But it links to the page above, not to a page showing > the latest compatible versions of XCode for each macos > version. > > I'm sure I've seen such a list in the past, but can't > remember where it is, and I can't seem to find it today. > Is it somewhere prominent and I'm just not finding it? > It would be great if either of the above pages linked to it. > > Ah, this has a great compatibility chart: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcode#Xcode_11.x_(since_SwiftUI_framework) > > I know this thread is about letting people know that XCode > isn't always needed, but I think the instructions for getting > the right XCode for old macos systems could be better too. > > cheers, > raf
I think is the page I originally saw: https://xcodereleases.com/ cheers, raf
