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

#49129

HandBrakeCLI @0.10.0: configure.py: error: invalid xcconfig: osx1011.x86_64

#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'

#58883

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

#59218

QLMarkdown and QLColorcode fail on Catalina 10.15

#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

#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

#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: implicit declaration of functions

#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

#61653

gimp-gap @2.6.0, gimp-gap-devel @2.7.0-20191012: error: implicit declaration of function

#61696

transcode @1.1.7: 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

#61863

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

#62105

kdelibs4 @ 4.14.3_15: build failure on Catalina

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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'

#64743

libarchive bsdtar hang on catalina

#64804

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

#67051

arch @1.3.5: error: implicit declaration of function

#67104

qt5-qtwebengine @5.15.12: Project ERROR: Could not resolve SDK Path for 'macosx10.15' using --show-sdk-path

#67971

libKriging fails on Catalina: error: no viable constructor or deduction guide for deduction of template arguments of 'CacheFunction'

#68176

transmission-x11 @4.0.4 fails to build with Clang on Catalina and below: error: no viable constructor or deduction guide for deduction of template arguments of 'shared_ptr'

#68476

cog @0.8.0: error: implicit declaration of function 'setup_setting_widget' is invalid in C99

#68659

mips-elf-gcc @3.4.6_0: fails to build due to implicit declaration of abort()

#68759

agrep @2.04: implicit function declarations

#68871

btop broken on Catalina and below

#68890

tiledb @2.18.2 fails to build with clangs on Catalina and earlier

#68974

gnupg2 @2.4.3.1: error: implicit declaration of function 'libusb_error_name' is invalid in C99

#69192

folly +tests needs a better fix for aligned_alloc on macOS <11; perhaps, switch to posix_memalign

#69421

fastgltf fails to build on 10.15: error: 'To' does not refer to a value

#69532

contacts-cli fails on Catalina: error: package is using Swift tools version 5.5.0 but the installed version is 5.2.0

#69869

kicad @7.0.11: crashes when run

#70171

sigil-qt4 fails to build with clang: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "boost::scoped_static_mutex_lock::scoped_static_mutex_lock(boost::static_mutex&, bool)"

#70282

folly @2024.06.03.00 fails on Catalina and below with libc++: error: no matching constructor for initialization of 'std::function<LocalRefCount ()>'

#70474

geos2 @2.2.3: error: assigning to 'char *' from 'const char *' discards qualifiers

#70482

qemu @9.0.2: error: initializing 'NSEdgeInsets' (aka 'struct NSEdgeInsets') with an expression of incompatible type 'id'

#70916

FatDriveSorter is broken on Catalina and below

#71126

MacOSX10.13.sdk fails to install on 10.15 Catalina

#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

#67576

Error Building libgcc11 on MacOS Catalina: error: unknown type name 'PTR'

#69350

py-pyopencl @2023.1.4 does not work with Catalina

#70856

dbus fails to update on iMac 27" late 2013 running Catalina