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On the PureBasic-Website is stated, that the Requirements for PureBasic on the Mac are:

PureBasic Website: wrote:Requirements
- MacOS X 10.2+ (Jaguar or above)
- The Apple SDK (available on the OS install CDs)

I've just tried to install PB 4.51 on an older PPC-MacMini with OSX 10.3.9 and run into this problem, where I get lots of Linker Errors about outdated files if I try to compile.
As reported in this thread this happens since PB 4.40 and could be solved by installing XCode V2.5.
But to install XCode 2.5, at least OSX 10.4 is required.

So is there any chance to get an actual PB-Version work with an older XCode (Version v1.5 is the latest XCode-Version for OSX < 10.4)?

Otherwise - shouldn't be the published System-Requirements for PureBasic on Mac OSX be updated to >= v10.4?

My code runs fine on Windows, Linux and OSX 10.6.2 (Intel) but has major problems on OSX 10.4.11 (PPC) and XCode 2.5. All 15 of my child windows crash with "#Gadget not initialized" or "#Window not initialized" error message. From my research, my iMac cannot run later versions of OSX (800MHz is too slow) and newer versions of XCode require newer versions of OSX.

IIRC, I got rid of linker errors by updating to the latest version of XCode that would run under 10.4.11 but I never solved the "#*** not initialized" issue. I put it aside and loaned the G4 to an acquaintance who had more use for it. I'll try again with the next PB release.

@inSane You were warned! I think I read somewhere that the PPC is not a priority anymore.

inSANE wrote:...shouldn't be the published System-Requirements for PureBasic on Mac OSX be updated to >= v10.4?

I agree that Fred should update the System-Requirements - it's misleading as things stand. My experience is that PB only works on an Intel machine.