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kovidgoyal · 10-08-2019, 04:43 AM

calibre is built against the 10.14 SDK so it likely wont run on anything before that directly. You would have to try to build it against a 10.11 SDK. I am also fairly sure that there a few places where calibre uses Qt 5.13 functionality, but maybe you can patch them out easily.

10-08-2019, 04:43 AM	#6
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,585 Karma: 28548962 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	calibre is built against the 10.14 SDK so it likely wont run on anything before that directly. You would have to try to build it against a 10.11 SDK. I am also fairly sure that there a few places where calibre uses Qt 5.13 functionality, but maybe you can patch them out easily.