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 11.0 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

#58668

dns-server: Fix netstat on Catalina

#58766

libgcc9 failed to build

#58776

macOS 10.15 libgcc9 fails to build with Xcode 11

#58882

Python37 configure script segfaults in generate-posix-vars on macOS 10.15

#59194

py37-pyobjc 5.2.0: build failed

#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

#59224

gcc8 @8.3.0_4: confused by __OSX_AVAILABLE_STARTING

#59229

m4 1.4.18_2.darwin_19.x86_64: build errors in ftello.c on MacOS 10.15 Catalina

#59232

fftw-3 does not configure with +gfortran (Catalina, Xcode 10.3, Macports-2.6.1)

#59245

redis @5.0.6 build error on mac os 10.15 Catalina with Xcode 11.1

#59246

ffmpeg @4.2.1_1 / x265 @3.2: compile fine but cannot be executed/crash immediately mac os 10.15 catalina / Xcode 11.1

#59280

qt5-qtcreator does not build on mac os X 10.15 (catalina)

#59282

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

#59297

py36-astor fails to build on macOS 10.15 Catalina

#59216

Unable to ugrade ruby on Catalina

#59234

mysql57 fails to build on macOS 10.15 Catalina

#59235

MacVim fails to build on macOS 10.15 Catalina

#59248

OpenBlas fails to build on macOS 10.15 Catalina

#59250

OpenBLAS 0.3.7_0 build failed on Catalina

#59255

syncthing: fails to build under catalina

#59265

luajit @ 2.0.5 : Does not compile on Catalina with Xcode 11.1, CFLAG patch and link below

#59295

pari does not work in catalina