Xcode 8 will not launch

I'm on the latest version of MacOS. Xcode 10 works fine but I've tried 8, 8.2.1 and 8.3.3 and they all crash on launch with this error:


Crashed Thread: 0



Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY



Termination Reason: DYLD, [0x4] Symbol missing



Application Specific Information:

dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries



Dyld Error Message:

Symbol not found: _OBJC_IVAR_$_NSTextViewIvars.sharedData

Referenced from: /Applications/Xcode8.app/Contents/MacOS/../SharedFrameworks/DVTKit.framework/Versions/A/DVTKit

Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/AppKit

in /Applications/Xcode8.app/Contents/MacOS/../SharedFrameworks/DVTKit.framework/Versions/A/DVTKit


Can anyone help me get this working? Thanks!

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I'd not expect Xcode 8.x to be macOS 10.14.3/mojave compatible.


Thanks for confirming, and, for -not- dumping the entire crash log 😉

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Same here. It is a problem, because we need XCode 8 to migrate Swift 2.x to Swift 3.x (which then can be further updated with XCode 10).

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Install a previous version of macOS in a VM and run Xcode there.

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galad87
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