Why does XCode want to install an old version of the tools?

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mauricev OP
Created May ’23
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I just tried to use git and i get a response back it can't find version 13 of the SDK. Of course, that makes sense since I have 14.3 installed, but it's stuck in this loop of demanding I install version 13. How can I tell it that 14.3 is installed? I just tried installing 14.3.1 of Xcode and the tools and that had no effect. Still insists on downgrading.

Answered by mauricev in 754241022

Problem is solved. Xcode is looking for an non-existent symlink. There is no "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX13.0.sdk". Instead, there is

drwxr-xr-x 8 maurice staff 256 May 28 00:43 MacOSX.sdk lrwxr-xr-x 1 maurice staff 10 May 28 00:16 MacOSX13.3.sdk -> MacOSX.sdk lrwxr-xr-x 1 maurice staff 10 May 28 00:16 MacOSX13.sdk -> MacOSX.sdk

When I manually added the symlink lrwxr-xr-x 1 maurice staff 10 May 28 00:44 MacOSX13.0.sdk -> MacOSX.sdk

Everything started working again.

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mauricev OP
May ’23

It's not that it trying to install an old version, but MacOS 13 SDK. The question is why it can't stop doing this.

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mauricev OP
May ’23
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Problem is solved. Xcode is looking for an non-existent symlink. There is no "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX13.0.sdk". Instead, there is

drwxr-xr-x 8 maurice staff 256 May 28 00:43 MacOSX.sdk lrwxr-xr-x 1 maurice staff 10 May 28 00:16 MacOSX13.3.sdk -> MacOSX.sdk lrwxr-xr-x 1 maurice staff 10 May 28 00:16 MacOSX13.sdk -> MacOSX.sdk

When I manually added the symlink lrwxr-xr-x 1 maurice staff 10 May 28 00:44 MacOSX13.0.sdk -> MacOSX.sdk

Everything started working again.

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