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). (CLTs should probably be avoided for now, see below.) 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 C++ compiler in the Command Line Tools for Xcode 16 appears to be broken on Sequoia; it does not look in the correct place for C++ headers. The majority of ports that contain C++ code will likely fail to build as a result.

The workaround is to use the compiler in the Xcode app. Either not installing the CLTs in the first place, or deleting /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools if they are already installed, will force MacPorts to use Xcode instead.

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.

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,

#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

#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

#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

#70850

qt5-qtwebengine @5.15.16_2 : converts to incompatible function type on sequoia

#70882

Linking errors after installing ffmpeg, ffmpeg7

#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

#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

#70987

php73, php74, php80, php81: Segmentation fault when generating phar.php

#71013

qt6: Update to future 6.8.0 to support macOS 15.

#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

#71057

xgalaga @2.1.1.0: error: type specifier missing, defaults to 'int'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit int [-Wimplicit-int]

#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

#70812

ossp-uuid +universal won't build under Sequoia

#70862

batik port: MacOS Sequoia; install via source build fails

#71031

qt6-qtwebengine fails to build on MacOS Sequoia

#71052

llvm-19 @19.1.1: possibly rpath-related problems on macOS Sequoia