macOS Catalina Problems

General Issues

First of all, please read Migration.

Just as with macOS 10.14, the 10.15 SDK does not support building 32-bit code, and furthermore 32-bit programs cannot run on Catalina. Any ports of software that lacks 64-bit support or needs to be universal will thus fail to build or otherwise encounter problems on Catalina. Most of these will not be able to be fixed short of adding 64-bit support upstream.

Updating MacPorts Base

MacPorts must be re-installed in a version configured for macOS 10.15 Catalina.

Ensure you have Xcode 11.3 or greater installed and selected (e.g. sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer), and that you have the command line tools installed (xcode-select --install). You also have to agree to the license by running sudo xcodebuild -license.

There have been reports that the -license option might not be sufficient alone, and following command might be required to agree to the license: sudo xcodebuild -runFirstLaunch

Tickets for Broken Ports

#56284

py-llvmmath, py-llvmpy: depend on outdated clang-3.3

#57174

cotvnc wont compile

#58425

QGLE @4.2.5_12: fatal error: 'glu.h' file not found

#58480

chasen-base @2.3.3: clang: error: unknown argument: '-syslibroot'

#58668

dns-server: Fix netstat on Catalina

#59207

perl5.28 build fails on Catalina with MacPorts 2.6.1 and Xcode 11.1

#59218

QLMarkdown and QLColorcode fail on Catalina 10.15

#59269

atlas returns segmentation fault with macOS 10.15 and Xcode 11

#59282

package py37-tensorflow does not build on mac os X 10.15 (catalina)

#59316

osxfuse @3.8.3: Assertion 'common_is_variable DEFAULT_SDK_10_15_ARCHITECURES' failed

#59377

xorg-xorgproto @2019.2: Failed to configure on macOS 10.15

#59415

Htop does not show on Catalina

#59511

bootstrap ports fail to build on Mojave and later

#59559

dsniff @2.4b1_2: error: use of undeclared identifier 'R_NOOVERWRITE'

#59593

ndcctools @6.0.16: Sorry, I can't proceed without Mac OS X Command Line Tools.

#59700

SSHKeychain @0.8.2: error: could not decode input file using specified encoding: Western (Mac OS Roman), and the file contents appear to be encoded in Unicode (UTF-8)

#59733

hyperestraier causes segfault on Catalina

#59948

Building libgcc7 failed on macOS Catalina 10.15.2

#59951

ossp-uuid +perl5_26: fatal error: 'sys/types.h' file not found

#59999

libedit @20191231-3.1_0 build failure with hfscompression

#60088

tuntaposx @20150118: error: too few arguments provided to function-like macro invocation

#60093

gtkglext @1.2.0_11 +quartz does not configure on macOS Catalina, Version 10.15.3, because 'configure: error: X development libraries not found'

#60953

atlas @3.10.2_2: ERROR: enum fam=3, chip=2, model=158, mach=0

#60962

graphviz @2.40.1_2 +pangocairo-x11-universal: no member named 'min' in namespace 'std::__1'

#60988

php73-apache2handler @7.3.16_1: error: too few arguments to function call, expected 3, have 2

#61106

gr-osmosdr @20200214: Failed - ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mako'

#61231

molden: error: implicit declaration of function

#61331

erlang @23.0 +wxwidgets: does not build on catalina

#61356

w3m, w3m-devel: error: redefinition of 'sys_errlist' with a different type: 'char **' vs 'const char *const []'

#61383

xemacs @21.4.22: *** PANIC *** Configure tests are not working - compiler is broken.

#61463

mongodb @4.4.1_0 mongod: cannot execute binary file on macOS 10.15

#61529

moria @5.5.2_5 fails to build on Big Sur

#61590

alpine @2.23: error: implicit declaration of function 'time' is invalid in C99

#61602

p5-crypt-des @2.07: error: implicit declaration of function 'perl_des_expand_key' is invalid in C99

#61604

p5-authen-smb @0.91: error: implicit declaration of function 'SMB_Init' is invalid in C99

#61605

p5-digest-nilsimsa @0.06: error: implicit declaration of function 'clear' is invalid in C99

#61607

p5-html-strip @2.10: error: implicit declaration of function 'utf8_char_width' is invalid in C99

#61610

p5-inline-python @0.5.6: error: implicit declaration of function 'initperl' is invalid in C99

#61611

p5-ipe 0.3.1: error: implicit declaration of function 'train_bntree' is invalid in C99

#61614

p5-math-longdouble @0.22: error: implicitly declaring library function 'finite'

#61615

p5-net-nfdump @1.25: error: implicit declaration of function 'ff2_lex' is invalid in C99

#61617

p5-sdl @2.548: error: implicit declaration of function '_calc_offset' is invalid in C99

#61618

p5-string-ediff @0.09: error: implicit declaration of function 'ediff' is invalid in C99

#61619

p5-term-gnuplot @0.903.809.60: error: implicit declaration of function 'test_term' is invalid in C99

#61680

runit @2.1.2: error: implicit declaration of function 'execve' is invalid in C99

#61710

gtk2-murrine @0.98.2: error: implicit declaration of function 'murrine_rc_style_register_types' is invalid in C99

#61765

gwenhywfar4 @4.20.2 does not build on Big Sur

#61802

dfu-programmer @0.7.2: error: implicitly declaring library function 'malloc' with type 'void *(unsigned long)'

#61842

opendx @4.4.4_10: y.tab.c:1107:16: error: implicit declaration of function '_dxfcclex' is invalid in C99 [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]

#61863

geos @3.9.0: Configuration logfiles contain indications of -Wimplicit-function-declaration

#61924

qt513-qtwebengine @5.13.2_2: Exception: No 10.15.6+ SDK found

#62105

kdelibs4 @ 4.14.3_15: build failure on Catalina

#62219

netperf @2.7.0: error: implicit declaration of function 'read' is invalid in C99

#62247

anacron @2.3_3: error: implicitly declaring library function 'abort'

#62304

sudosh @1.6.3: error: implicit declaration of function 'gettimeofday' is invalid in C99

#62307

gnuregex @0.12_2: error: implicit declaration of function 'free' is invalid in C99

#62419

elftoolchain @0.7.1: error: implicit declaration of function 'htole32' is invalid in C99

#62445

hugin-app @2019.2.0_3 fails to build due to implicit declaration

#62567

scalapack @2.1.0 build failure due to implicit declaration

#62594

yydecode @0.2.10: error: implicitly declaring library function 'strcmp'

#62615

rpm: error: implicit declaration of function '__dbsrv_timeout' is invalid in C99

#62626

R @4.0.5 compile failure due to implicit declarations

#59234

mysql57 fails to build on macOS 10.15 Catalina

#59338

freetds @1.00.9 +mssql +odbc : fails to install on High Sierra and Catalina (possibly others)

#60645

app PortGroup specifies using bash, but Catalina no longer uses bash

#60916

macOS Catalina cfitsio +universal not installing

#60997

osxfuse @ 3.8.3_0: fails to build on Catalina: Assertion 'common_variable_is_legal_name XCODE_SDK_10_15.6_XCODE' failed

#61081

unison @2.51.2_3+aqua installed on macOS Mojave (10.14) built for macOS Catalina (10.15) and won't run

#61642

ds9 @8.1.1 +x11: build failure on Catalina

#61653

gimp-gap-devel @2.7.0-20191012+quartz fails to build on Catalina

#62518

port gimp2 fails at configure GIMP app on Catalina for GIMP 2.10.22, upstream patch exists for gimp/configure.ac