Lazarus 4.6 on macOS 10.15 Catalina?

[hippyqellar573]

Sorry to be so dumb, but does the new Lazarus 4.6 run on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) Intel?
Thanks.

[wpostma]

As far as I know lazarus 4.6 is built with fpc 3.2.2 and should work on old mac os like catalina.  On new ones, like tahoe, no, no it doesn't.

[mischi]

As said before: Did you try macports?

[hippyqellar573]

@mischi - mac ports has only lazarus 4.4, and there's already a binary installer for that which I'm using.

@wpostma - the reason I ask is because the lazarus 4.6 icons have the circle-bar over the icon. Trying to run it brings up a message:

You can't use this version of the the application "lazarus" with this version of macOS.
You have macOS 10.15.8. The application requires macOS 15 or later.

The original release announcement mentions 10.5-10.14 only, which are 32-bit releases, and a 64-bit release for 10.12. No mention of 10.15...  Announcement page here: https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,73549.0.html

FPC 3.2.4 installed OK and runs OK. It's just Lazarus 4.6 that doesn't like macOS 10.15. (whereas lazarus 4.4 works OK on it).

The SourceForge page (https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20macOS%20x86-64/Lazarus%204.6/) says that Xcode 15 must be installed, but XC 15 does not support macOS 10.15.

I got confused by what is actually supposed to be supported.