[Help] clang error while building on Mac OS X El Capitan

[Abhijeet Salunke]

I have setup my Mac OS X for building Android. I am able to execute following commands

- source build/envsetup.sh

- lunch 

But when I run "make" it gives me following error:

clang: error: invalid version number in '--mmacosx-version-min=11.1'

My configuration is as follows:

- Mac OS X El Capitan 

- Xcode 12.4

- Mac OS X 11.1 SDK

- JDK 1.8

I have been stuck on this issue for while can anyone help me with these. I have also attached screenshot.

This is my first time building a Android.   

[Dan Willemsen]

Older versions of Android don't build with newer versions of MacOS (the inverse works, you can build newer android versions with older MacOS versions, though that's not usually interesting except for CI servers)

If you really need to build a 4+ year old android version on your Mac, then your best bet is probably to use a Linux virtual machine. That may be faster anyways.

- Dan

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[Dan Willemsen]

Oh, I forgot El Capitan is MacOSX 10.11, which is probably old enough to be supported on that branch. But the MacOS 11.1 SDK shouldn't work on that, and the screenshot claims that you're running 10.15.7 (Darwin 19.6.0). So something doesn't line up here.

Regardless, the Linux VM is probably your best bet -- platform builds on Mac aren't entirely full-featured anyways (close enough for most development, but a handful of things can be missing).

- Dan

[Abhijeet Salunke]

Thanks for the answer Dan Willemsen.. And Yes it was my mistake when I said I am using El Capitan actually I have updated the system and currently its Mac OS X Catalina. I am working with Linux VM as suggested by you.

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