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Mike Taverne
Mike Taverne

Reputation: 9352

Can I run Xcode 6.3.2 side by side with Xcode 6.2?

I'm trying to run Xcode 6.3.2 side by side with Xcode 6.2, but I can't get my project to build.

I downloaded 6.3.2 from Apple Developer portal, and copied to my Applications folder as "Xcode632".

I can open it and compile my project, to a point. Initially it found all kinds of errors in my project related to Swift 1.2. I fixed those manually and now it compiles with no errors, but it never finishes building. It hangs at the point where it says "Compiling Swift source files".

I've tried changing my command line tools to 6.3.2 under Preferences | Locations. I've also cleaned my project, deleted derived data, restarted Xcode, restarted my computer. Nothing helps.

Any ideas?

EDIT: The answers provided in the other question are more than 5 years old and don't apply, and the accepted answer links to an article on Apple's site that is no longer there.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 199

Answers (1)

Rainer Schwarze
Rainer Schwarze

Reputation: 4745

Usually I follow these steps:

  1. compress my existing Xcode directory ( /Applications/Xcode.app ) to an archive ( Xcode.app.zip )
  2. Update Xcode (for example 6.1 -> 6.2)
  3. extract the archive somewhere else ( -> ~/Desktop/Xcode.app )
  4. rename the old app ( -> ~/Desktop/Xcode61.app
  5. move old Xcode app to /Applications ( -> /Applications/Xcode61.app )

I usually have problems when trying to install things into a differently named directory and keeping the old one where it was. For me the only reliable way was to archive the existing app and extract it to a different name.

Upvotes: 1

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