Not able to build and compile on macos #29083

Hey there , I'm facing these issues. I ran these commands

./autogen.sh ./configure --disable-bench --disable-fuzz-binary --enable-debug --without-gui --enable-suppress-external-warnings make

<img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2023-12-15 at 1 02 35 AM" src="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/assets/74540123/8d96fcda-36c0-4a06-934f-a83e9a96b543"> <img width="1434" alt="Screenshot 2023-12-15 at 1 02 48 AM" src="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/assets/74540123/0656acd4-cb44-4e49-a28d-42fcf2509843"> <img width="1434" alt="Screenshot 2023-12-15 at 1 03 56 AM" src="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/assets/74540123/0fe63e1c-2d47-4e2d-8550-e0b2acbab092"> <img width="1440" alt="Screenshot 2023-12-15 at 1 04 04 AM" src="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/assets/74540123/e3701e05-a579-4053-89b2-659cbbcd3168">

Did you run make clean?

Yes I have tried that.Didn't work.

What is your operating system and architecture? Where did you get BDB from?

Do you need BDB? If not, you can disable it with --without-bdb.

What is the ./configure script summary?

Can also try make distclean and then rebuild.

If that doesn't work, or if you are seeing linker issues, the header and compilation might be out of sync and you may want to ensure that you are building from a clean tree. If you are using ccache, try clearing the cache by running ccache -C (see ccache -h for help) and then rebuilding.

If that doesn't solve it, you can also run git clean -f -x -d and rebuild. This wipes everything in the tree that doesn't belong to git, so be careful that you don't have anything else in the directory that you don't want to lose and move it out first.

See https://jonatack.github.io/articles/how-to-compile-bitcoin-core-and-run-the-tests for more info.

What is your operating system and architecture? Where did you get BDB from?

MacOS 13.0 Arm64 architechture . I tried installing BDB using homebrew while following the docs -> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-osx.md

MacOS 13.0 Arm64 architechture . I tried installing BDB using homebrew while following the docs -> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-osx.md

Can you try to re-install it, and check that it installs it for arm64? Otherwise, if you don't need it, you can disable it by passing --without-bdb to ./configure.

What is the ./configure script summary?

I don't exactly understand it but this is what i got after running the ./configure command. https://gist.github.com/sarthak13gupta/6ab7cf9b402a3695b20da574a5957804

MacOS 13.0 Arm64 architechture . I tried installing BDB using homebrew while following the docs -> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/build-osx.md

Can you try to re-install it, and check that it installs it for arm64? Otherwise, if you don't need it, you can disable it by passing --without-bdb to ./configure.

I don't think I need it currently. Do I need to add anything else in this line ./configure --disable-bench --disable-fuzz-binary --enable-debug --without-gui --enable-suppress-external-warnings apart from --without-bdb

@sarthak13gupta

Did you move your macOS from x86_64 (Intel) machine to a new Apple Silicon based one?

(I saw a similar issue back then)

Do I need to add anything else in this line

Yes, that sounds good. Your configure summary should then print, just to confirm:

Options used to compile and link:
  external signer = yes
  multiprocess    = no
  with libs       = yes
  with wallet     = yes
    with sqlite   = yes
-    with bdb      = yes
+    with bdb      = no
  with gui / qt   = no
  with zmq        = yes
  with test       = yes
  with fuzz binary = no
  with bench      = no
  with upnp       = no
  with natpmp     = no
  use asm         = yes
  USDT tracing    = no
  sanitizers      = 
  debug enabled   = yes
  gprof enabled   = no
  werror          = no
  LTO             = no

  target os       = darwin22.1.0
  build os        = darwin22.1.0

  CC              = /opt/homebrew/bin/ccache gcc
  CFLAGS          = -pthread -g -O2
  CPPFLAGS        =  -DDEBUG -DDEBUG_LOCKORDER -DDEBUG_LOCKCONTENTION -DRPC_DOC_CHECK -DABORT_ON_FAILED_ASSUME -fmacro-prefix-map=$(abs_top_srcdir)=.   -DHAVE_BUILD_INFO -Xclang -internal-isystem/usr/local/include -DMAC_OSX -DOBJC_OLD_DISPATCH_PROTOTYPES=0 
  CXX             = /opt/homebrew/bin/ccache g++ -std=c++17
  CXXFLAGS        =   -O0 -g3 -ftrapv -fdebug-prefix-map=$(abs_top_srcdir)=.  -Wstack-protector -fstack-protector-all -fcf-protection=full  -Wall -Wextra -Wgnu -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wvla -Wshadow-field -Wthread-safety -Wloop-analysis -Wredundant-decls -Wunused-member-function -Wdate-time -Wconditional-uninitialized -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsuggest-override -Wunreachable-code-loop-increment -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wdocumentation  -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-self-assign    
  LDFLAGS         =  -lpthread  -Wl,-bind_at_load -Wl,-fixup_chains   -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -Wl,-dead_strip -Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs 
  AR              = /usr/bin/ar
  ARFLAGS         = cr

@sarthak13gupta

Did you move your macOS from x86_64 (Intel) machine to a new Apple Silicon based one?

(I saw a similar issue back then)

Nope it's an m1 so I guess that would be arm64 since the start.

If nothing else helps, I would suggest to remove and reinstall Homebrew from scratch.

The linker issue persists... this is what I'm getting after running ./configure https://gist.github.com/sarthak13gupta/6ab7cf9b402a3695b20da574a5957804 and make https://gist.github.com/sarthak13gupta/a993a3f2eb2183b32c1e6042fe7d96db commands. also, another command used initially was git checkout v26.0 to checkout to 26.0

Also, should I reinstall command line tools as well, given the issue below? <img width="1256" alt="Screenshot 2023-12-15 at 2 32 40 AM" src="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/assets/74540123/87308167-b096-4392-8dbd-289787d49096">

For reference, the configure output seems to target x86:

% ./configure --disable-bench --disable-fuzz-binary --enable-debug --without-gui --enable-suppress-external-warnings --without-bdb
checking for pkg-config... /opt/homebrew/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin22.1.0
checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin22.1.0
...

You said you're running on arm, but configure says otherwise:

checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin22.1.0

Is your terminal running under Rosetta or something.

This is clearly a local issue / misconfiguration, not a problem with Core.

Could this be due to an env var? Maybe check env | grep 'HOST='?

You said you're running on arm, but configure says otherwise:

checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin22.1.0

Is your terminal running under Rosetta or something.

Yes, now that I checked because it gives compatibility issues with dependencies sometimes.

Should I change it and run it without Rosseta?

But I don't know why this would happen , also when brew is located at /opt/homebrew/bin/brew and I'm installing dependencies using arch -arm64 brew install ... because it would give a warning cannot install under rosseta 2 mostly .

This is clearly a local issue / misconfiguration, not a problem with Core.

Changing the terminal config to running it without rosetta worked, Thanks Guys!

Good to hear. Closing for now.