New MacOS and Xcode update incompatible with Cmake?

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I’ve been running code smoothly for the last few weeks up until today after my macOS updated to Sonoma 14.2.1 and Xcode to 15.2 overnight. I updated cmake using homebrew to the latest version: 3.28.1, but now I’m getting strange errors:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$MU3EPREFIX/software/install $MU3EPREFIX/software/mu3eAna

CMake Warning at /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.28.1/share/cmake/Modules/Platform/Darwin-Initialize.cmake:308 (message):
Ignoring CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT value:

/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX14.0.sdk

because the directory does not exist.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.28.1/share/cmake/Modules/CMakeSystemSpecificInitialize.cmake:34 (include)
CMakeLists.txt:3 (project)

– The C compiler identification is AppleClang 15.0.0.15000100
– The CXX compiler identification is AppleClang 15.0.0.15000100
– Detecting C compiler ABI info
– Detecting C compiler ABI info - failed
– Check for working C compiler: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/cc
– Check for working C compiler: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/cc - broken
CMake Error at /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.28.1/share/cmake/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:67 (message):
The C compiler

"/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/cc"

is not able to compile a simple test program.

It fails with the following output:

Change Dir: '/Users/alexgavin/Project/software/build/mu3eAna/CMakeFiles/CMakeScratch/TryCompile-Hnhd8Y'

Run Build Command(s): /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.28.1/bin/cmake -E env VERBOSE=1 /usr/bin/make -f Makefile cmTC_a68cb/fast
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  -f CMakeFiles/cmTC_a68cb.dir/build.make CMakeFiles/cmTC_a68cb.dir/build
Building C object CMakeFiles/cmTC_a68cb.dir/testCCompiler.c.o
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/cc    -MD -MT CMakeFiles/cmTC_a68cb.dir/testCCompiler.c.o -MF CMakeFiles/cmTC_a68cb.dir/testCCompiler.c.o.d -o CMakeFiles/cmTC_a68cb.dir/testCCompiler.c.o -c /Users/alexgavin/Project/software/build/mu3eAna/CMakeFiles/CMakeScratch/TryCompile-Hnhd8Y/testCCompiler.c
Linking C executable cmTC_a68cb
/usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.28.1/bin/cmake -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/cmTC_a68cb.dir/link.txt --verbose=1
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/cc -Wl,-search_paths_first -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names CMakeFiles/cmTC_a68cb.dir/testCCompiler.c.o -o cmTC_a68cb 
ld: library 'System' not found
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[1]: *** [cmTC_a68cb] Error 1
make: *** [cmTC_a68cb/fast] Error 2

CMake will not be able to correctly generate this project.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:3 (project)

– Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Anyone got any ideas?

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Delete your build directory and start with a fresh build.

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Hi, thanks for your suggestion. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling but to no avail. I’m using homebrew so I’m not sure if that’s the problem?

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Please try the following minimal project, which should at least confirm whether you have a working toolchain and CMake installation:

CMakeLists.txt:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.28)
project(minimal)

This works for me with essentially the same versions of things as you.

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I am using too Sonoma (14.2.1) and cmake 3.28.1. I use cmake installed with the package downloaded from cmake.org

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He means the build directory. This error happens sometimes when I update macos like that too across projects.

Say I previously did

cmake -B build

For some project, then macos/xcode upgrades ad I get that error. In that same directory as before I do

rm -r build

cmake -B build

And all is well.

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Hi, thanks for the reply. I’m not too familiar with cmake and only really use it to compile code that uses cmake files (I did not write them). I uninstalled cmake with homebrew and tried to build from scratch and I’ve got up to make install but now it’s requesting a password and administrative privileges so I’m not really sure what’s going on. Do you perhaps know what the equivalent of this fix is for cmake installed with homebrew?

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I tried this and got the following output:

cmake CMakeLists.txt

– The C compiler identification is AppleClang 15.0.0.15000100

– The CXX compiler identification is AppleClang 15.0.0.15000100

– Detecting C compiler ABI info

– Detecting C compiler ABI info - done

– Check for working C compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc - skipped

– Detecting C compile features

– Detecting C compile features - done

– Detecting CXX compiler ABI info

– Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done

– Check for working CXX compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/c++ - skipped

– Detecting CXX compile features

– Detecting CXX compile features - done

– Configuring done (23.0s)

– Generating done (0.0s)

– Build files have been written to: /Users/alexgavin/software/cmake/test

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Thanks for everyone’s suggestions. After hours searching Google somebody recommended trying the command:

export SDKROOT=$(xcrun --sdk macosx --show-sdk-path)

It seemed to fix things (I think the SDK path was wrong?) although I’m getting some deprecation errors, but at least it works!

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