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ruspaans
Participant
June 4, 2012

I'm looking for an answer for this as well. I'm a learning programmer, and would like to compile with the latest XCode. The recommended version (3.1.2) is from 2009 - which is quite old. Does anyone know if it's possible to compile with the most recent 3.x version, and if XCode 3 and XCode 4 will co-exist on the same Mac?

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Woffl
Participant
June 4, 2012

Still no clue whether XCode 3.5 exists, but 3.2.6 actually runs fine under Lion (see e.g. this discussion). From the little testing I have done it seems to co-exist well with XCode 4. But the most important thing is that it allowes me to compile my plug-ins for Photoshop CS5, right under Lion.

That said, doing everything in XCode 4 would be preferable, so good luck to Adobe (and Apple) for fixing the "problems" .

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ruspaans
Participant
June 6, 2012

Yeah, I heard rumours about these "problems" that Apple and Adobe seem to have with each other.

Thanks a lot for your reply, it gave me confidence to do the install. I followed the instructions at this page: http://anatomicwax.tumblr.com/post/8064949186/installing-xcode-3-2-6-on-lion-redux and it installed just fine. Have both running in parallell now, and they don't seem to cause issues with each other. Compiled my first Photoshop plugins (tons of warnings, but ran fine), so I'm good to go! Cheers!

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smei_ch
Participating Frequently
May 10, 2012

Same problem here.

XCode 3 is only supported under SnowLeopard, but when you want to develop for iOS as well, you need the latest XCode 4, wihich only runs under Lion. And MountainLion is only a few weeks away. Not a very good situation.

When will there be an upgrade of the SDK to actual versions?

Chris Cox
Chris Cox
Legend
May 21, 2012

XCode 3.5 can run on MacOS 10.7 (thank goodness), and the SDK examples can be used with XCode 3.5.

(3.5 was a typo - I meant 3.2.5)

XCode 4 is still... problematic.

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Woffl
Participant
June 1, 2012

I have the same problem, trying do make the dissolve filter (CS5 or CS6) compile under Lion, with XCode 4, without success. You mention XCode 3.5 -- I have never heard about that. The latest XCode 3 I can find is 3.2.6. Can we get 3.5 by suscribing to the Mac deveoper programm?

Many thanks for your support.

Chris Cox
Chris Cox
Legend
May 13, 2011

We do not yet have documentation for XCode 4, mostly because we are waiting for a long list of bugs to be fixed in XCode 4 before we can attempt to use it.

You can just upgrade the old example projects and hope they load into XCode 4, or you can wait for the missing features and bugs to be addressed by Apple.

Royi A
Royi A
Inspiring
March 29, 2013

Hi Chris,

Is there any update on that?

Could you upload the simplest template of Photoshop Plug In which compiles on MAC OS X 10.8 using XCode 4.6?

Has anyone managed to compile a plug in on the latest XCode and MAC OS X?

We bought Cloud Subscritpion only to start developing for Adobe Photoshop CS6 and it seems we can't.

Royi A
Royi A
Inspiring
April 1, 2013

The base SDK is a setting in the build settings of the XCode project.

Honestly, I don't know why you're having so much trouble with trivial updates between XCode versions (and every major XCode update requires these changes).


Hi Chris,

It's a brand new MAC.
I didn't upgrade anything.

I just, for the first time, launched the project and tried compiling.

It didn't work.
The samples from the After Effects SDK worked.

Could you guide me and the others on this thread how to compile successfully the samples?

At least the filter samples.

Thank You.

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