mac: Set minimum OS requirement in plist

[Vilagamer999]

Change plist requirements to allow installing on macOS Catalina and later

[Vendicated]

that's a bit of a specific version, wouldn't just 10 work? Also have u tried compiling & building the app folder and seeing if it works?

[Vilagamer999]

that's a bit of a specific version, wouldn't just 10 work?

True that's smarter, I just set it to the latest available version...

Also have u tried compiling & building the app folder and seeing if it works?

Doing that now

[stantios]

Would MacOS Version 10.13 work? I know not many people use that version nowadays but still, it can open up the installer to a wide variety of users that can't upgrade.

[Vendicated]

Try it and see

[stantios]

I changed it to 10.13 but it didn't work. The dialog kept saying it needed 12.0 even though I set it to 10.13

[Vendicated]

As I said I don't have a Mac, nor do I really care about supporting Mac, so I won't be of much help, sorry.

This might be helpful https://bignerdranch.com/blog/requiring-a-minimum-version-of-os-x-for-your-application/

[Vilagamer999]

Would MacOS Version 10.13 work? I know not many people use that version nowadays but still, it can open up the installer to a wide variety of users that can't upgrade.

Theoretically it should work on all the macOS versions that support x64 applications (and M1/2 through rosetta)

I tried building the app directly on macOS but it was not happy, I'll try build it on windows tomorrow and test it.

[forever-and-a-day]

Tried building this on Linux to run on a computer with MacOS Big Sur (11.x) - build was fine, but unfortunately wouldn't run. The target computer still refused to run it, saying it only supported MacOS 12 (Monterey) even with the changed plist file.

[nyathea]

Workaround for macOS 11 Big Sur (if people havent found it out yet):
Right click on VencordInstaller.app and press "Show Package Contents" go to Package > Contents and click on the VencordInstaller exucutable. it will open up a terminal window and the Installer will work without issues.

[stantios]

Theoretically it should work on all the macOS versions that support x64 applications (and M1/2 through rosetta)

I tried building the app directly on macOS but it was not happy, I'll try build it on windows tomorrow and test it.

I tried to build the installer, and it ran fine. But, when I tried to run the Vencord.app, it resulted with this:

I think it is a problem with the VencordInstaller executable and that it sets the minimum requirement to 12.0 for some reason.

[stantios]

Update: I was right. If I build manually with the same flags as the GitHub Workflow and compile it to a .app, I get a build / .app file that is compatible with 10.13.6.