It confuses me, too. Apple couldn't just match the dev tools version numbers with the OS, because that would have made too much sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcode#Xcode_7.0_-_10.x_(since_Free_On-Device_Development) macOS 10.13 High Sierra uses XCode 9 to 10.1 > On Dec 16, 2022, at 18:51, [email protected] wrote: > > > There was no 10.4. > > Try looking for XCode 10.1 > >>> On Dec 16, 2022, at 18:46, James <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> Hi >> many folk here run older macos. Perhaps someone can help me >> >> I've a 2011 iMac27 pegged at High Sierra >> I was trying to build mythtv; all my attempts to create a High Sierra VM >> failed, and I caused great chaos on my main machine. Naw wurries I'll just >> reinstall. All the gods snicked and nudged each other! >> >> A long time later I have a working High Sierra. >> Now I'm trying to install macports. I glean that I need xcode 10.4 Which >> I've got on timemachine, but apple does not list as available. >> https://developer.apple.com/download/all/ >> >> I cant access old time machine images :-( Apple Support Community suggest >> restoring THAT image on a usb drive to get the image. I can access the >> archive directly but with strange ACL permissions. >> >> Any suggestion on how to get xcode 10.4 >> What about CLI tools >> >> Thanks >> James
