Mac OS X版本10.7.4上的Xcode 4.2

Question

I have Mac OS X version 10.7.4 installed and I want to have the Xcode 4.2 installed on my machine. But when I try to install the 4.2 dmg it gives the error as

Xcode is not supported on Mac OS X 10.7 or greater. To install Xcode you must download a version that supports Mac OS X 10.7 or greater.

Actually I don't want to change the Base SDK of my existing app to point to 6.0 and kep it as 5.0 only.

What should I do?

Answer 1

You most likely are trying to install the Snow Leopard version of Xcode 4.2. There's a version of Xcode 4.2 for Lion on Apple's developer downloads site that should work. If you want to avoid using the iOS 6 SDK, you could install Xcode 4.3 or 4.4 instead of 4.2. Both Xcode 4.3 and 4.4 have the iOS 5 SDK and run on Lion.