How do I add PPC/PPC64 support back to Xcode 4.2 under Lion?

Question

I have a Lion (10.7.1) system on which I installed Xcode 4.2. Suppose I have a simple C program helloWorld.c as follows:

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Answer 1

If you perform a classical install of Xcode 3.2.6 on Lion, the Xcode toolset is disabled and is not installed. That's why the Xcode3/usr/bin does not exists.

I suggest you to read the following posts (read both of them before going further). They describe a trick to fool the installer into installing everything.

• Installing Xcode 3.2.6 On Lion
• Installing Xcode 3.2.6 On Lion Redux

Then, you can apply the trick from the SO entry for restoring PPC support in Xcode.

Note: I have not tested the steps above, but I will be glad to hear your feedback on it. Hope it helps.

Edit 04 Sep. 2011: I have managed to get my hands on a Lion machine to make some experiments and got some results. I have gathered them on my blog.