Set minimum macOS version

Beatrix_Willius · July 24, 2025, 3:18pm

How do I set the minimum macOS version?

Setting the value in the IDE (2024r1) doesn’t do anything at all. I still get 10.14 and not 11.0.

Then I tried with an info.plist and get this gem:

Ian_Kennedy · July 24, 2025, 3:20pm

The minimum macOS version is an item on the macOS build tab (at least in later versions). It’s quite likely that your plist entry is being added to by Xojo. 10.14.0 is the default value.

Actually I think you are saying that putting 11 in Xojo doesn’t remove the 10.14. Could be a bug. Just testing

Beatrix_Willius · July 24, 2025, 3:23pm

That’s what I tried first:

Ian_Kennedy · July 24, 2025, 3:30pm

It seems fine for me. If I set it in the IDE the comes out correct in the built application:

Do you have your own plist in the Xojo or adding items externally, using defaults or plistbuddy

Beatrix_Willius · July 24, 2025, 4:11pm

That’s what I said above.

Then I tried with an info.plist and get this gem:

And the I tried this:

PropertyValue("App.MacOSMinimumVersion") = "11.0"

Ian_Kennedy · July 24, 2025, 4:14pm

I think attempting to set it in a script and having it within the IDE are clashing. I think you’re stuck with only doing it manually on the macOS settings. It’s likely a bug that updating it via script isn’t working.

Using the IDE macOS setting and nothing else (like scripts or plist entries) works correctly for me.

Greg_O · July 24, 2025, 4:47pm

I really don’t see that being possible. The settings you set in a script are coalesced and rendered just as the package is generated.

AlbertoD · July 24, 2025, 4:53pm

Same here, even downloaded 2024r1 to test.

Ian_Kennedy · July 24, 2025, 4:59pm

That doesn’t seem to be true for this new setting. It looks like Xojo is adding the item twice. Certainly seems to be the case in the example provided.

Greg_O · July 25, 2025, 12:29am

If so, that’s a bug. The IDE certainly is capable of handling this.

AlbertoD · July 25, 2025, 12:46am

I tried some tests and I was not able to make it fail:

adding info.plist to the project and setting the version using the IDE worked, final only 1 Minimum system version
using the PropertyValue (as displayed above) also only 1

I hope you can find the problem.

Beatrix_Willius · July 25, 2025, 5:02am

I’m now using an IDE script because nothing else works. If this was an IDE bug it should have been noticed.

Greg_O · July 25, 2025, 10:20am

To be fair to Xojo, just adding the property can make it scriptable and you don’t always think about all of the places a thing like this will be exposed. With a Q/A team of one, things like this are going to slip by.

Beatrix_Willius · July 25, 2025, 10:41am

I’ll do some testing with the latest version. It should have worked either for the IDE property or the app property set with a script or the plist. So for me this looks like some corruption in my old project.