Linking Executable Error

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I installed Xojo Version 2022 Release 4.1 yesterday. I worked with Realbasic some 10+ years ago and would like to return to the Xojo IDE.

When I try to run a completely empty project I get the cryptic error message “Linking Executable”. Without any further description or hint to what causes this problem.

The problem may be that I am using an iMac Late 2009 (…) with 8GB RAM and 512 GG SSD that is patched with the DosDude tool to (perfectly and smoothly!) run MacOS 10.15.7 Catalina.

I also installed Xcode 12.4 (i.e. the latest Xcode version for Catalina), which runs slow but also smoothly.

Anybody’s help would be greatly appreciated!

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Got the same error even with 2023 r1.1.

Did you find a solution for this?

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It would be helpful to know more about your computer.

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Mine is a mid 2010 Mac mini with Catalina 10.15.6

I’m able to compile for windows and Linux but not for Mac.

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Compiling for windows & Linux, are you building 32 or 64 bit apps?

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I need for mac.

So win and linux was only a test.

Anyway it was 64

For Mac I tested without success all the possibilities : x86 64 bit, arm and universal

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I’ve sometimes seen issues like this when there was a problem with the application name. Have you tried changing it to something straightforward?

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I understand, but the machine you’re working on does not “officially support” macOS > 10.13 and I was concerned that there may be some hardware or chip component missing which the LLVM compiler in Xojo requires to run. Compiling as 32-bit for Windows and/or Linux would have used the older compiler which has much smaller requirements. LLVM is required for any of the builds you might do for macOS today.

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Copied but always compiled to 64bit for every platform.
In any case, understood that some incompatibilities could exists. It is interesting to understand which they are.