macOS Sequoia Problems
General Issues
First of all, please read Migration.
Check the status of Sequoia builders here if you prefer to install prebuilt primaries. It can take several weeks after a new MacOS release before builders are working for both x86_64
and arm64
.
Updating MacPorts Base
MacPorts must be installed in a version configured for macOS 15 Sequoia. If you update from an older OS version, you need to run port migrate
to reinstall MacPorts base and installed ports that are not OS-independent (see link above).
Ensure you have Xcode 16.0 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
). (See below for a potential problem when upgrading from older CLT versions.) 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
Compiling C++ fails
The installer for the Command Line Tools for Xcode 16 does not delete a directory that was installed by some older versions of the CLTs, which unfortunately causes clang++ to look in the wrong place for C++ headers. The majority of ports that contain C++ code will fail to build as a result.
The fix is to delete the stray directory if it exists: sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/include/c++
Then clean the ports that failed to build, and try again.
Ticket: #70750
Trace mode not working
Building ports in trace mode (i.e. with the -t
option) will fail on Apple Silicon systems running Sequoia. This appears to be due to new security features in Ventura+. This issue is being followed in Ticket: #66358
Rosetta 2
A number of MacPorts portfiles and MacPorts base assume that arm64 Macs will have Rosetta 2 installed; you will likely run into issues if you have not installed it. Note that Rosetta 2 is not installed by default, or when running x86_64 binaries from the command line — you must open an application that has only x86_64 code in it to get the prompt to install Rosetta 2, or run softwareupdate --install-rosetta
in a terminal window.
ScreenCaptureKit Requirement with macOS 15 SDK
Anything that dies with an error:
error: '<SomeCGGraphicsFunction>' is unavailable: obsoleted in macOS 15.0 - Please use ScreenCaptureKit instead.
Needs to set macosx_deployment_target
to 14 or below.
Workaround for most ports:
if {${os.platform} eq "darwin" && [vercmp ${macosx_deployment_target} >= 15.0]} { macosx_deployment_target 14.0 }
Current Tickets: 70758, 70756, 70709, 70774, 71103
Tickets for Broken Ports
- #68759
- agrep @2.04: implicit function declarations
- #70468
- php74 @7.4.33: Undefined symbols _res_9_dn_expand, _res_9_dn_skipname, _res_9_init, _res_9_search,
- #70750
- C++ headers are not found after updating to CLTs version 16.0
- #70751
- collada-dom @2.4.0_1: error: unknown type name 'zipFile'; did you mean 'zip_file'?
- #70753
- samba3 @3.6.25_4: configure failure
- #70765
- libssh2 @1.11.0 cannot compile against libressl
- #70808
- openjdk18 @18.0.2.1_0+release+server fails to build on macOS Sequoia 15
- #70812
- ossp-uuid @1.6.2 +universal: error: call to undeclared function '__VA_COPY_USE_yes'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
- #70841
- bcv @2.2: error: assigning to 'char *' from 'const char *' discards qualifiers
- #70843
- rexx port build failure: -Wincompatible-function-pointer-types
- #70882
- OpenCore Legacy Patcher 2.0.2 installs faulty CoreImage framework on macOS 15 on Macs using 3802-based GPUs
- #70888
- blender: Error: Unable to deduce MP Clang version from /usr/bin/clang
- #70956
- Togl-2.0 @2.0: error: incompatible function pointer types assigning to 'void (*)(Tk_Window, Tk_ClassProcs *, ClientData)' (aka 'void (*)(struct Tk_Window_ *, struct Tk_ClassProcs *, void *)') from 'void (*const)(Tk_Window, const Tk_ClassProcs *, ClientData)' (aka 'void (*const)(struct Tk_Window_ *, const struct Tk_ClassProcs *, void *)') [-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types]
- #70972
- flite @2.2_0 fails to link on macOS sequioa
- #70976
- libpeas @1.32.0: failure to build on macOS Sequoia
- #71019
- gnupg2 @2.4.5_0+openldap+pinentry_mac linking fails on macOS Sequoia arm64
- #71023
- mpich-clang13 @4.2.2: error: _Float16 is not supported on this target
- #71025
- php74-odbc, php80-odbc: error: incompatible function pointer types
- #71047
- emacs-app @29.4_1+imagemagick+nativecomp+rsvg+treesitter: Failed to activate
- #71058
- gwenhywfar4: error: incompatible function pointer types
- #71090
- kicad @7.0.11: error: implicit instantiation of undefined template 'std::char_traits<unsigned short>'
- #71091
- libxmi @1.2: error: type specifier missing, defaults to 'int'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit int [-Wimplicit-int]
- #71092
- tecla @1.6.3: error: incompatible function pointer types passing 'TputsRetType (TputsArgType)' (aka 'void (int)') to parameter of type 'int (*)(int)' [-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types]
- #71094
- tectonic @0.14.1: error[E0282]: type annotations needed for `Box<_>`
- #71119
- ruby33: error: something wrong with LDFLAGS
- #71133
- scheme48 @1.9.2: error: Unable to determine bits per byte, see config.log for details
- #71134
- swi-prolog @9.2.7: tex:main source_sink `tex(main)' does not exist
- #71135
- ucblogo @6.2.4: error: incompatible function pointer types passing 'void (void)' to parameter of type 'void (*)(int)' [-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types]
- #71150
- py311-wxpython-4.0: error: 'CGDisplayCreateImage' is unavailable: obsoleted in macOS 15.0 - Please use ScreenCaptureKit
- #71160
- openjdk-17 @17.0.13_0+release+server: Build failure - command failed
- #71169
- tree-sitter-yaml @0.5.0_0 build fails on Sequoia arm64
- #71181
- cclient @2007f_4: error: incompatible function pointer types
- #71269
- valgrind-macos-devel @3.22.0-r2023-10-29: configure: error: Valgrind works on Darwin 10.x-23.x (Mac OS X 10.6-10.11 and macOS 10.12-14.0)
- #71365
- mumps @5.7.3_0+gfortran+mpich+openblas rev-upgrade fails due to self-conflict
- #71383
- gle-graphics @4.2.5_4 build failure
- #71386
- py-py2app: Wrong path to Carbon framework
- #71404
- Kitty @0.35.2: _LSOpenURLsWithCompletionHandler() failed with error -54.
- #71423
- qt5-qtbase @5.15.15_0: ASSERT failure in QMacVersion: "Could not find any version load command"
- #71481
- portaudio @20240308-88ab584e +universal Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64
- #71492
- traceroute @1.4a12: error: type specifier missing, defaults to 'int'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit int [-Wimplicit-int]
- #71512
- Platypus 5.4.1 fails to build on 15.1.1
- #71517
- kermit @9.0.302: error: type specifier missing, defaults to 'int'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit int [-Wimplicit-int]
- #71528
- emacs-app @29.4_1+nativecomp+rsvg+treesitter+xwidgets ld: library 'emutls_w' not found libgccjit.so: error: error invoking gcc driver
- #71580
- MacVim @9.1.release180 build error
- #71596
- py312-pytorch @2.3.0_0+mps build fails on MacOS Sequoia 15.2 on M3 MacBook Pro
- #71701
- mysql8 build error: link error after Undefined symbols for architecture arm64
- #71702
- mariadb-10.11 install fails on Sequoia 15.2
- #71708
- cmake: build failure on macOS 15: stale libxml2, still linked to icu 74
- #71718
- php71 @7.1.33_5+libedit: error: too few arguments to function call, expected 3, have 2
- #71783
- xcircuit @3.10.30_3: error: call to undeclared function 'XDefineCursor'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
- #71802
- mmencode: implicit int errors
- #71817
- edencommon: Undefined boost::filesystem symbols
- #71838
- cmake-bootstrap: configure failure
- #71894
- xar: @1.8.0.501: error: implicit declaration of function 'xar_prop_get_expect_notnull' is invalid in C99
- #71898
- gnuplot 6 +wxwidgets: in Sequoia, set term wxt does not work
- #71903
- Cannot get C++ compiler set up
- #71905
- gimp3-devel +quartz: error: 'CGWindowListCreateImage' is unavailable: obsoleted in macOS 15.0 - Please use ScreenCaptureKit instead.
- #71969
- db47 @4.7.25: patch fails on Ventura and later
- #70862
- batik port: MacOS Sequoia; install via source build fails
- #71052
- llvm-19 @19.1.1: possibly rpath-related problems on macOS Sequoia
- #71130
- segfault building gd2 on Mac OS Sequoia
- #71234
- Gnuplot misses x11 terminal under MACOS Sequoia
- #71347
- py39-gsd port cannot be installed on OSX Sequoia 15.1 (24B2083)
- #71416
- volk 2.5.0: Broken on Sequoia / clang 16.0.0
- #71434
- ftgl @2.4.0_1 does not build on macOS 15.1 Sequoia
- #71458
- FreeRDP: Broken on Sequoia
- #71722
- libt3config @1.0.0+universal: sequoia 15.2: reporting error in configure: libtool not working for C.
- #71895
- ProjectLibre Does not install on Mac OS Sequoia 15.2 (24C101)
- #72001
- Error: Failed to destroot poppler: command execution failed (QGIS arm installation on Sequoia)