Links Xcode SDKs from the /SDKs directory (which you maintain yourself)

fix-xcode

#!/usr/bin/python

# fix-xcode
# 	Rob Napier <robnapier@gmail.com>

# Script to link in all your old SDKs every time you upgrade Xcode
# Create a directory called /SDKs (or modify source_path).
# Under it, put all the platform directories:
# 	MacOSX.platform          iPhoneOS.platform        iPhoneSimulator.platform
# Under those, store the SDKs:
#	MacOSX10.4u.sdk MacOSX10.5.sdk  MacOSX10.6.sdk  MacOSX10.7.sdk  MacOSX10.8.sdk
#
# After upgrading Xcode, just run fix-xcode.

import argparse
import subprocess
import os

source_path = "/SDKs"

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('xcodePath', help='path to Xcode', nargs='?')
args = parser.parse_args()

if args.xcodePath:
	dest_path = args.xcodePath
else:
	dest_path = subprocess.check_output(["xcode-select", "--print-path"]).rstrip()

if not dest_path.endswith("/Contents/Developer"):
	dest_path += "/Contents/Developer"

for platform in os.listdir(source_path):
	subprocess.call("sudo ln -sf %(source_path)s/%(platform)s/* %(dest_path)s/Platforms/%(platform)s/Developer/SDKs" % locals(), shell=True)

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+1 Thank you!!

This is great. I currently have both 4.6.3 and 5.0 installed. I used the following to link 5.0 to the SDKs in the old version:

platforms_path="$1/Contents/Developer/Platforms";
if [ -d $platforms_path ]; then
    for platform in `ls $platforms_path`
    do
        sudo ln -sf $platforms_path/$platform/Developer/SDKs/* $(xcode-select --print-path)/Platforms/$platform/Developer/SDKs;
    done;
fi;

You just need to supply it with the path to the .app:

./xcode.sh /Applications/Xcode-463.app

ln: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS6.1.sdk/Developer/SDKs: No such file or directory
why this error?
xcode 5

Thanks

Sweet!! +1

I get ld: library not found for -lcrt1.10.6.o when trying to compile using MacOSX10.6.sdk, any known solution?

Modern versions of Xcode (7.3+) need you to edit the MinimumSDKVersion in this file to use older SDKs:
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Info.plist

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "fix-xcode", line 33, in <module>
    for platform in os.listdir(source_path):
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/SDKs'

• macOS
  • 10.11.6
• Xcode
  • 7.3.1
  • 8.0 Beta 6 (8A218a)
  • 8.0 GM (8S201h)

Included on this page are commands to use for altering the Info.plist. Integration into the script should be straightforward, hmm, maybe except for parsing the version number out of the SDK path.

This not work for xcode12

@rnapier You might want to change :

#!/usr/bin/python

to

#!/usr/bin/env python3

As there is no more python integrated with the macOS.