Qt5 on <= 10.6

[Sergey Fedorov]

Thank you, this reply from Ken answers the query about 10.6 Intel and early
Qt5 usefulness:

> Now I did get qt5.4 to build on 10.6, with moderate efforts, but it was
not overly useful because by the time I did that, not much software would
still build against qt5.4 anyway.

On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 10:37 PM <chrischavez at gmx.us> wrote:

> On 7/29/23 at 6:51 AM, Sergio Had wrote:
>
> > Does Qt5 work on 10.5–10.6 Intel?
> >
> > It looks that at least earlier 5.x versions installed on 10.6:
> https://ports.macports.org/port/qt53/stats
> > Presumably that should be fixable for 10.5 and PPC.
> > (I am not sure if 5.3 is of much use though – do developers of ports
> depending on Qt5 support it still?)
> >
> > P. S. Given how much efforts it takes every time to fix something for
> Qt4, even if it means just digging out a right version and reverting some
> commits, I start asking a question if it is easier just to fix some early
> 5.x version. There should not be anything arch-specific, it should be just
> C++, I guess. Just find fallbacks for whatever misses in SDK, but if it
> works on 10.6 Intel, it might be pretty feasible.
>
>
>
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/64570
>
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/64932#comment:10
>
>
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