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py-llvmmath, py-llvmpy: depend on outdated clang-3.3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

#58883

dsniff @2.4: error: Berkeley DB with 1.85 compatibility not found

#59218

QLMarkdown and QLColorcode fail on Catalina 10.15

#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

#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

#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'

#61331

erlang @23.0 +wxwidgets: does not build on catalina

#61383

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

#61529

moria @5.5.2_5 fails to build on Big Sur

#61570

ifeffit @1.2.13: error: implicit declaration of function 'ioctl' 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

#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

#61619

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

#61631

torsocks @2.3.0: error: implicit declaration of gethostbyaddr_r is invalid in C99

#61696

transcode: error: implicit declaration of function 'audio_resample_close' 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

#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

#62105

kdelibs4 @ 4.14.3_15: build failure on Catalina

#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

#62567

scalapack @2.1.0 build failure due to implicit declaration

#62594

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

#62626

R @4.0.5 compile failure due to implicit declarations

#62636

tightvnc @1.3.10_2: implicit declaration of function 'vncDecryptPasswdFromFile2' is invalid in C99

#62729

py3x-tensorflow @2.4.1_1 [+native]: tensorflow-2.4.1-cp38-cp38-macosx_11_0_x86_64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform

#62917

h4h5tools @2.2.3_10: error: implicit declaration of function 'close' is invalid in C99

#62919

pamtester @0.1.2: error: implicitly declaring library function 'sprintf' with type 'int (char *, const char *, ...)'

#62967

oftpd @0.3.7_2 fails to build due to implicit declarations

#63144

cryptlib @3.4.5: error: use of undeclared identifier 'GPROF_COUNT'

#63280

xfractint @20.04p14_0: build error: implicit declaration of function 'xpopup' is invalid in C99

#63332

scotty @3.0.0_9: error: implicitly declaring library function 'memset' with type 'void *(void *, int, unsigned long)'

#63380

Failed to build gnuplot: command execution failed

#63452

gst @3.2.5: getopt.c:576:30: error: implicitly declaring library function 'strcmp' with type 'int (const char *, const char *)' [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration]

#63491

libopenshot: error: use of undeclared identifier 'zmq_ctx_shutdown'

#63538

xastir @2.0.8_7: error: implicit declaration of function 'XmGetDestination' is invalid in C99

#63861

screen @4.8.0_1: Configuration logfiles contain indications of -Wimplicit-function-declaration

#63884

mariadb-10.6 @10.6: Configuration logfiles contain indications of -Wimplicit-function-declaration

#63932

gcc11 offers a universal variant on macOS 10.15 where universal is not possible

#63967

gmpc @11.8.16_5: error: implicit declaration of function 'main_window_add_status_icon' is invalid in C99

#64046

py27-ngl @1.3.0b1_2: error: implicit declaration of function 'c_cssgrid' is invalid in C99

#64057

darwinbuild: You must install darwinbuild with the universal variant

#64082

gmt6 @6.3.0_0+fftw3+gdal+nonfree+openmp+pcre: error: expected ')' before 'bsd_signal'

#64197

nvi @1.81.6_6 build failure: implicit declaration of function 'conv_enc'

#64420

argyll @2.2.1_1: error: implicit declaration of function 'execvp' is invalid in C99

#64743

libarchive bsdtar hang on catalina

#64804

mpv @0.34.1: port rev-upgrade loop on MacOS 10.15 Catalina

#64991

HexFiend @2.15.0b1_0: fails to build on macOS 10.15

#59338

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

#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