macOS Ventura Problems
General Issues
First of all, please read Migration.
Xcode 14.1
Xcode 14.1 has now been released, and is the minimum required version on macOS Ventura.
Apple did not release Xcode 14.1 at the same time as macOS Ventura as intended, but earlier versions do not provide the macOS 13 Ventura SDK. In the time between the release of Ventura and the final release of Xcode 14.1, users had to install the Xcode 14.1 release candidate from Apple's developer site.
Updating MacPorts Base
MacPorts must be re-installed in a version configured for macOS 13 Ventura.
Ensure you have Xcode 14.1 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
Trace mode not working
Building ports in trace mode (i.e. with the -t option) will fail on Ventura. This appears to be due to new security features in Ventura+. This issue is being followed in Ticket: #66358
Rosetta 2 and build_arch
MacPorts defaults to building for the architecture that it is running as. If you have a universal MacPorts installation on an Apple Silicon Mac, and you run it from a terminal emulator that is not a native arm64 binary, MacPorts will end up being run as x86_64, and will build ports accordingly, which can be unexpected. This can be corrected by explicitly setting build_arch arm64 in macports.conf, or by using a native terminal emulator.
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.
Tickets for Broken Ports
- #49129
- HandBrakeCLI @0.10.0: configure.py: error: invalid xcconfig: osx1011.x86_64
- #61383
- xemacs @21.4.22: *** PANIC *** Configure tests are not working - compiler is broken.
- #61529
- moria @5.5.2_5: implicit declaration of functions
- #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
- #61972
- clang-7.0, clang-8.0: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to an incomplete type 'struct stat64'
- #63221
- cctools @949.0.1+llvm10: error: implicit declaration of function 'CLS_GETINFO' is invalid in C99
- #66357
- py39-tensorflow failed - macos Ventura 13.0.1
- #66423
- gstreamer1-gst-plugins-good +qt: build failure on macOS 13
- #66608
- vulkan-validationlayers @1.3.236.0_0: error: no member named 'kInstBufferOOBEnable' in namespace 'spvtools'
- #66683
- djview color mismatch on Ventura M1 Pro
- #67051
- arch @1.3.5: error: implicit declaration of function
- #67061
- kcalc @4.14.3_3: Assertion failure in -[NSNib initWithContentsOfURL:], NSNib.m:65, Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Deprecated in 10.8.'
- #67106
- git: destroot fails "The domain/default pair of (.../Git Gui.app/Contents/Info, CFBundleExecutable) does not exist"
- #67143
- akregator (and other kdepim4 apps) crash on launch
- #67249
- apache2 @2.4.57_0+preforkmpm: Background item on Ventura 13.3.1
- #67385
- beekeeper-studio @1.11.6: node-pre-gyp ERR! build error
- #67613
- py27-pynacl @1.4.0: distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('wheel')
- #67675
- gtk3 @3.24.38 +quartz: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64
- #67770
- py310-pytorch @2.0.0_2: error: unknown token in expression
- #67839
- logisim-evolution @3.8.0: build fails on macOS Ventura 13.5 arm64 aarch64
- #67892
- xfconf @4.16.0 failed to compile on Ventura arm64, and a potential workaround
- #68160
- perl5.22: Executable requires at least macOS 12.0, but is being run on macOS 10.16, and so is exiting
- #68476
- cog @0.8.0: error: implicit declaration of function 'setup_setting_widget' is invalid in C99
- #68530
- scribus-devel: move to 1.7.x and Qt6 or introduce a new scribus-upstream
- #68659
- mips-elf-gcc @3.4.6_0: fails to build due to implicit declaration of abort()
- #68759
- agrep @2.04: implicit function declarations
- #68894
- aubio @0.4.9: python: command not found
- #68974
- gnupg2 @2.4.3.1: error: implicit declaration of function 'libusb_error_name' is invalid in C99
- #69733
- libgcc11 @11.4.0: Hangs at patch phase
- #70474
- geos2 @2.2.3: error: assigning to 'char *' from 'const char *' discards qualifiers
- #71053
- clang @19.1.1_0+analyzer: can't find standard headers
- #71195
- tiledb @2.26.0: Undefined symbols "std::exception_ptr::__from_native_exception_pointer(void*)"
- #66097
- freeglut fails to build under Ventura
- #66156
- llvm-10 @10.0.1_3+emulated_tls arm64 build fails on macOS Ventura
- #66172
- FileZilla @3.51.0 Failed to be built on macOS 13.0 Ventura
- #66407
- Okular installation not working in Ventura13.0.1(arm64)
- #66534
- LibreOffice fails to configure on install in macOS Ventura (13.1) because it can't find the correct macOS SDK.
- #66893
- openntpd not working with Ventura 13.2 on Mac M2
- #67142
- php82-fpm access denied to a file by System Policy of macOS Ventura
- #67424
- libgcc12 @12.3.0: Fails to build on Ventura 13.3.1 (a)
- #67523
- ffmpeg and ghostscript ports fail to build due to "too many open files" error, Ventura 13.4
- #67726
- parallel-netcdf @1.10.0_0+mpich build failure on macOS Ventura 13.4.1
- #67987
- emacs @29.1_1 on Mac OS X ventura 13.4.1 cannot install magit
- #68191
- Inkscape does not run on Ventura 13.5.1.
- #68411
- Uninstalling failed QGIS3 installation via MacPorts on macOS Ventura 13.3.1
- #68729
- TeXShop @5.22_0 fails to build on Ventura 13.6.1
- #69581
- ssh-askpass-mac fails to build on macOS 13 (Ventura) for Intel
- #69953
- libgcc-devel-14-20240303 does not install on Apple M1 Mac with Ventura 13.6.6
- #70585
- py310-pyqt5-webengine upgrade broken on port version 2.10.1 on Ventura 13.6.7