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py-llvmmath, py-llvmpy: depend on outdated clang-3.3

#58425

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

#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

#59403

netcdf @4.7.0_1 configure failure

#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'

#60096

xorg-server-devel @1.20.4 does not build on macOS Catalina, version 10.15.3, because "../randr/randrstr.h:204:5: error: unknown type name 'RRLease'"

#60493

Menue issues with wxMaxima on macOS 10.15

#60953

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

#61106

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

#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)

#59357

Pallet: Build Failure on Catalina 10.15. error: Compiling for earlier than macOS 10.6 is no longer supported. huh?

#59382

nodejs10 @10.18.1: build fails on Catalina with error related to assembler

#59647

Catalina: neomutt cannot access $HOME/Maildir for directory browsing

#59901

Cannot install pallet in Catalina

#60645

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

#60893

gcc5 unusable on Catalina: ld: unsupported tapi file type '!tapi-tbd' in YAML file

#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