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

#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

#70755

lrzsz @0.12.20_4: error: type specifier missing, defaults to 'int'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit int

#70765

libssh2 @1.11.0 cannot compile against libressl

#70792

qt6-qtimageformats @6.7.2: ISO C++ forbids forward references to 'enum' types

#70795

boost171 @1.71.0_8+no_single+no_static+python310: error: integer value -1 is outside the valid range of values [0, 3] for the enumeration type 'udt_builtin_mixture_enum' [-Wenum-constexpr-conversion]

#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

#70842

lfortran port fails to compile

#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

#70909

rogue @5.4.4_3: incomplete definition of type 'struct _win_st'

#70923

tepl @5.0.1_5: clang: error: unknown argument: '-export-symbols

#70939

building julia fails for x86_64 on macOS 15 (Xcode 16): error: non-private labels cannot appear between .cfi_startproc / .cfi_endproc pairs

#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

#71014

nxcomp @3.5.99.22_1: error: invalid operands to binary expression ('__bind<int &, sockaddr *&, unsigned int &>' and 'int')

#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

#71062

mariadb-10.2 @10.2.44: error: assigning to 'xmlErrorPtr' (aka '_xmlError *') from 'const xmlError *' (aka 'const _xmlError *') discards qualifiers

#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

#71233

opencascade @7.8.0: error: cannot initialize a variable of type 'const char *' with an rvalue of type 'unsigned char *'

#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)

#71361

py311-wxpython-4.0: command execution failed

#71365

mumps upgrade from 5.7.3_0 fails to configure

#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)