macOS Sequoia Problems
General Issues
First of all, please read Migration.
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
Tickets for Broken Ports
- #70710
- gcc13 @13.3.0: error: non-private labels cannot appear between .cfi_startproc / .cfi_endproc pairs
- #70720
- sox @14.4.2_4 Fails to build on macOS Sequoia 15 RC
- #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'?
- #70752
- FAudio @24.09 build failure
- #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
- #70799
- R: all compilers blacklisted on macOS 15
- #70807
- openjdk11 @11.0.24_0+release+server fails to build on macOS Sequoia 15
- #70808
- openjdk18 @18.0.2.1_0+release+server fails to build on macOS Sequoia 15
- #70833
- wezterm @20240203-110809-5046fc22: error[E0282]: type annotations needed for `Box<_>`
- #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
- Linking errors after installing ffmpeg, ffmpeg7
- #70883
- py312-llvmlite: clang-14 is known to fail
- #70888
- blender: Error: Unable to deduce MP Clang version from /usr/bin/clang
- #70889
- oath-toolkit @2.6.7: error: call to undeclared library function 'realloc' with type 'void *(void *, unsigned long)'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
- #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
- #70941
- sane-backends @1.2.1: error: static declaration of 'send' follows non-static declaration
- #70951
- Linker ld warning -ld_classic is deprecated when compiling with gcc14
- #70795
- boost171 @1.71.0_8+no_single+no_static+python310 fails to build on Sequoia
- #70812
- ossp-uuid +universal won't build under Sequoia
- #70862
- batik port: MacOS Sequoia; install via source build fails
- #70918
- openjdk17 @17.0.12+7+release+server fails to build on macOS Sequoia 15
- #70946
- wordnet @3.0_3 fails to compile on MacOS sequoia and Xcode 16.