Hi,
I just downloaded Xojo 2016r1 OS X version.
I’m getting an error when starting Xojo: PowerPc applications are no longer supported.
It’s not a Xojo application, it’s Xojo IDE itself !
Tried to download again but still get the error when launching Xojo.
Running OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)
Any idea ?
Thanks !
Sascha_S
(Sascha S)
May 3, 2016, 7:39am
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Beginning with REAL Studio 2010 Release 4, PowerPC support will no longer be actively supported. This means that it will still be a build option but we will no longer be testing or adding features to our PowerPC-based Mac framework. We will fix bugs but only the most problematic. Having said that, we rarely get bugs that are PowerPC-specific. Our Cocoa-based framework will be supported for Intel only. We will continue to provide PowerPC as a build option for another year or two.
Taken from (2010): http://www.realsoftwareblog.com/2010/08/future-support-for-powerpc.html
Try to download again. Perhaps your download was corrupted. I’ve seen this a couple of times.
If he’s running El Cap he can’t be using PPC, right?
Something else must be going on.
Try a reboot and reinstall, my friend had this problem when I told him about Xojo a few weeks ago.
If you can’t get it working, let me know and I’ll message him to find out if he did anything else to get it working.
Long shot:
How are you launching it?
Do you have an old version lying around and its being launched by you double clicking a project?
Thanks for your answers, but, just to clarify:
I know pretty well that PowerPC is not supported but it’s the Xojo IDE which is not launching
I’m not running a PowerPC version of El Capitan !
I’m not loading an old project, I just launch Xojo from the application folder.
I tried downloading once yesterday, twice today, all files are coming from the same url and have same size
I’ll try rebooting later today.
Maybe it would be interesting to have a MD5 checksum displayed on Xojo download page …
I’ll keep you posted later on.
I had the same kind of message pop up a couple times along the years with other programs than Xojo. In every instance re-downloading did the trick.
It would be interesting to compress the offending version and send to Xojo for analysis. Maybe they will find out what happened.
Sascha_S
(Sascha S)
May 3, 2016, 8:48am
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Hi @Sascha S,
This did the trick:
Maybe this will help: https://wiki.umms.med.umich.edu/display/UMHSHELPDESK/MAC+-+PowerPC+Applications+Error+Message
Moving to desktop, launching OK, moved back to Application folder, launching OK.
Many thanks !
Olivier
Solution: Download the Mavericks installer from the App Store, use Disk Utility to create a USB boot drive. Boot from said drive, do a clean install of Mavericks.
While I jest, I wouldn’t actually recommend that you do, there’s a ton of bugs in El Cap and the best way to make sure your software is compatible is to develop on it