dansmith:
Here's a -g build:
http://skypaint.com/bitcoin/Bitcoin-Qt-mac-g.zip
If I recall correctly, one of the libraries it links with is incompatible with 10.5.
Topic: Help wanted: Mac developer with OSX 10.5 - page 2. (Read 3228 times)
Dan...unfortunately I am without power at my home...I will be unable to help with this until I get power back and right now there is no ETA. I'm writing this from work on a PC. Sorry. 
URSAY,
I'm sorry to hear that you've been ignored in the past. I read some of your previous posts and see that you have a legitimate grievance.
Realising how busy Gavin Andersen might be, I'm not going to sit hear days on end waiting for him to send me the build with debuginfo.
So I decided to turn to you URSAY. Do you own an OSX 10.6 machine? Can you build bitcoin-Qt from source?
I'm sorry to hear that you've been ignored in the past. I read some of your previous posts and see that you have a legitimate grievance.
Realising how busy Gavin Andersen might be, I'm not going to sit hear days on end waiting for him to send me the build with debuginfo.
So I decided to turn to you URSAY. Do you own an OSX 10.6 machine? Can you build bitcoin-Qt from source?
Hello, I would like to take it upon myself to maintain Bitcoin-qt for OSX 10.5
I myself am stuck with osx 10.5 without the ability to upgrade. I use bitcoin-qt and starting with v. 0.7 the official mac build would crash.
I have no problem compiling bitcoin-qt from source and running it. I just follow doc/readme-qt.rst
My build environment is XCode 3.1.4 with Qt 4.6
Unfortunately, I can't trace the crash problem since the official build has no debugsymbols.
What can be done at this point is that somebody would build the app on their osx 10.6/10.7 with debug symbols, so I could debug the app and find the problem.
I myself am stuck with osx 10.5 without the ability to upgrade. I use bitcoin-qt and starting with v. 0.7 the official mac build would crash.
I have no problem compiling bitcoin-qt from source and running it. I just follow doc/readme-qt.rst
My build environment is XCode 3.1.4 with Qt 4.6
Unfortunately, I can't trace the crash problem since the official build has no debugsymbols.
What can be done at this point is that somebody would build the app on their osx 10.6/10.7 with debug symbols, so I could debug the app and find the problem.
I'm in a mac environment and I've offered my testing skills in the past but I'm usually ignored. Actually...I sent you an email Gavin after we met at BitInstant regarding another pro-btc subject...never heard back from you. 
If nobody steps up and volunteers to help with this, we'll have to drop support for OSX 10.5 in the next release.
would you like me to send you an older mac running 10.5?
gavin i'm sure you know how to use a virtual machine to run older versions of osx right?
I'm sure I could figure it out, but I don't have a copy of osx 10.5 to run, won't pirate it, and don't feel like spending $60 to pick up a copy on Ebay. I'd rather not spend the half a day it would take me to set up a development environment in a VM, too....
gavin i'm sure you know how to use a virtual machine to run older versions of osx right?
We're getting reports that version 0.7.0 isn't working on OSX 10.5-- are there any Mac developers with a 10.5 machine who can help figure out what is wrong?
The OSX builds are done on my OSX 10.6.8 machine, compiled against the 10.5 SDK in 32-bit mode (see http://gavintech.blogspot.com/2011/11/deploying-bitcoin-qt-on-osx.html ) for maximum compatibility. I'm not sure what changed between bitcoin versions 0.6.3 and 0.7.0 that would break compatibility...
The OSX builds are done on my OSX 10.6.8 machine, compiled against the 10.5 SDK in 32-bit mode (see http://gavintech.blogspot.com/2011/11/deploying-bitcoin-qt-on-osx.html ) for maximum compatibility. I'm not sure what changed between bitcoin versions 0.6.3 and 0.7.0 that would break compatibility...
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