How-to: Use the iPhone SDK on a PowerPC Mac
March 13th, 2008 by IPhone AtlasThough Apple states that the iPhone software development kit requires an -Intel processor-based Mac running Mac OS X Leopard," developers have found that â€" with a little leg-work â€" the SDK also runs on PowerPC-based Macs.
By default, the iPhone SDK package available free from Apple's site will run on a PowerPC-based Mac but omit the iPhone SDK-related files, installing only Xcode 3.1 beta and a series of other files. This routine is easily circumvented via the shareware tool Pacifist, which can be used to force an installation of the entire SDK package on PowerPC-based Macs.
Follow these steps:
* Drag the iPhone SDK package onto the Pacifist icon
* Select the top entry, -Contents of iPhone SDK"
* Click the -Install" button in the upper-left corner and enter your administrator credentials
The -Aspen" Simulator, which is a Universal Binary, will properly launch and emulate iPhone applications on PowerPC-based Macs.
Windows users are still out of luck when it comes to the official SDK, though developers are currently seeking alternative, Windows-based deployment methods.
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April 25th, 2009 at 12:19am
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rekzkarz
June 21st, 2009 at 5:37am
I read on another post that unfortunately this method installs it into root (/). One person said this put 5gb of files in his root folder. This is not the best method, there is another method where you manually mod a few installation config files in the .pkg file. Keep looking. This article: http://m.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27062/apple-iphone-sdk Is about mod'ing a .dist file, which as been renamed on the latest release as a .pkg file
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November 14th, 2009 at 7:41am
I'm currently thinking about buying a Mac and have wondered about the compatibility of some programs. How does the PowerPC thing work? Does it mean a Mac can run exactly as a PC does and all PC programs will work? James
December 1st, 2010 at 7:53am
mac is really something else huh
December 1st, 2010 at 7:57am
hi there thank u for this