Xcode 6.4 on OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) beta 2 / beta 3

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CrApHeR picture CrApHeR · Jul 4, 2015 · Viewed 16.5k times · Source

I am trying to run Xcode 6.4 on El Capitan and I can run with the instructions on this post.

But I am looking for a way to run it without any external program as I ran before with OSX 10.10 (Yosemite).

I found this post that point to this instructions but it does not work. These are the instructions

  1. Open this file /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/Exception.plist
  2. Find lines with name xcode in them (http://i.imgur.com/tcKWLhz.png)
  3. Edit value HardDisabled from YES to NO

  4. Save and reboot

    1.a) If you can't save because file says it's locked then enable rootless mode (sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1 rootless 0" or sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1 rootless=0") and reboot.

    1.b) If you still have problem, copy Exceptions.plist to Desktop (or wherever else) and edit it them.

    1.c) Save it and them remove Exceptions.plist in System (sudo rm -rf /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/Exceptions.plist)

    1.d) Copy file from Desktop (or wherever else) to /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources and reboot.

I couldn't edit the Exceptions.plist file with the instructions above, but after a lot of tries I found the way to edit it.
Here you can find the instructions to edit it.

After all of this, I still receiving the message

You can't open the application "XCode.app" because it is not supported on this type of Mac

when I try to run Xcode 6.4 from Finder

SOLUTION 1
The only thing I didn't do was to reinstall XCode 6.4 after the changes. I reinstalled it and it works!

SOLUTION 2
Dave Wood provided another solution to avoid to reinstall XCode. This is is post and as he posted in his answer the script is here

Answer

Dave Wood picture Dave Wood · Jul 9, 2015

Here's a shell script that tweaks Xcode 6 and resigns so you can just run it normally. No need to mess with the system exception list, reinstall or anything. Just takes a minute or so to run.

Script is here: http://bit.ly/Xcode6OnElCapitan

Note: you can not submit apps built on El Capitan while it's still in Beta.

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