Comments on: Build iPhone Apps for 2.2 and Earlier, Using Xcode 3.2 and Snow Leopard

By: David Esquivel

David Esquivel — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:28:52 +0000

This helped me out! :D THANK YOU!

By: vatsa.dEviL

vatsa.dEviL — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:47:52 +0000

i had the same problem. couldn’t find the “iphone OS deployment target”. i changed the Base SDK value from iPhone Device 3.2 to iPhone Simulator 3.2 and the deployment target showed up. I have no idea how that worked out since i’ve been working on mac only for a week now. interestingly enough, i tried switching back to iPhone Device 3.2 and the deployment target is still there. i didn’t understand the ‘how’ and ‘why’ part.. if any could explain.. thank you

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:19:51 +0000

Alas, it’s not. The deployment target is completely and utterly missing, even if I broaden the drop-down selections and eliminate all the search terms under Build.

I ended up showing package contents for the xcodeproj file, backed-up and edited project.pbxproj, and compared it with that of a freshly made project.

Seeing the differences, I went to my project’s XCBuildConfiguration section, and ensured these appeared in each buildSettings block:

IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = 3.0;
SDKROOT = iphoneos4.0;

Problem solved! (I suggest this only be done as a worst case step. Always make backups!)

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:50:38 +0000

The deployment target should be listed if you right click (or double-click) your Target. Choose the Build tab and search for “deployment target”

By: Holod

Holod — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:23:24 +0000

Interesting … what if iPhone OS Deployment Target is MISSING under Deployment?
I have exactly the same problem???

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:49:44 +0000

Interesting … what if iPhone OS Deployment Target is MISSING under Deployment? One of my projects has it and the other doesn’t, yet both were created with Xcode 3.1.x. Odd. (Now on Xcode 3.2.3, using 4.0 as the Base SDK.)

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:14:52 +0000

Wow. Even though I find this HUGELY counter-intuitive (Xcode’s overview button says “Device – 3.0 | Debug” even though I’m running the app on a 2.2.1 device), the tip worked for me as advertised, so I’ll run with it.

Thank you for posting this! After restoring the various SDK folders from the Leopard backup and playing with the myriad choices of compilers with no joy, I had just about given up.

By: Cyril Godefroy

Cyril Godefroy — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:52:06 +0000

This XCode 3.2 + iPhone OS 2.2.1 configuration is a bag of hurt and

I AM VERY HAPPY I MADE A BACKUP OF LEOPARD.

So plug in that disk and reboot with 3.1, iPhone OS 2.2.1 and iphone simulator 2.2.1. That’s what I eventually did after loosing hours with that configuration.

I f anyone finds how to revert an iPhone (not an iPod) to 2.2.1, this is a tip I would really pay some money for ;-)

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:04:13 +0000

I think I’ve seen this before. Make sure you select the base SDK of 3.0, which I think should enable the option you are looking for.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:58:07 +0000

This solution worked for one of the projects I tested but not for the other.

In the second project there is no option under deployment to set the “iPhone OS Deployment Target”.

Any thoughts?