On 22.08.2016 at 13:34 Alastair Houghton wrote:

>> On 22 Aug 2016, at 12:15, Andreas Falkenhahn <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Out of curiosity, I've just run a little test and compiled my app on the
>> 10.11 system for the 10.11 target and tried to run it on the 10.6 system,
>> just to see what happens. All I got is a message "Illegal instruction"
>> printed to stdout, or, when starting the app through Finder, a message
>> dialog telling me that the app has crashed and needs to be shut down.
>> Optionally, it offered me to send a crash report to Apple.

>> That was quite a surprise to me. I mean, this is the 21st century, I think
>> one could at least expect a message dialog telling the user that this app
>> needs at least Mac OS 10.11 or something, but no, it just crashed, leaving
>> the user quite clueless as to why it did so.

> The trick here is that you need to set the LSMinimumSystemVersion
> key in your Info.plist (this appears in Xcode as “Minimum system version”).

Ah, ok, thanks!

-- 
Best regards,
 Andreas Falkenhahn                            mailto:[email protected]


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