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.