Re: [gtk-osx-users] Newer macOS version (12.0) than being linked (11.0)

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On Dec 30, 2021, at 10:21 AM, Pascal <p p14 orange fr> wrote:
>
> > Le 30 déc. 2021 à 17:57, Paul Emsley via gtk-osx-users-list <gtk-osx-users-list gnome org> a écrit :
> >
> > On 30/12/2021 16:13, Pascal wrote:
> > > > Le 30 déc. 2021 à 14:43, Paul Emsley via gtk-osx-users-list <gtk-osx-users-list gnome org> a écrit :
> > > >
> > > > On 30/12/2021 11:29, Pascal wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > My configuration is macOS 12, I just built:
> > > > >
> > > > > % jhbuild bootstrap-gtk-osx
> > > > > % jhbuild build python3
> > > > > % jhbuild build meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap
> > > > >
> > > > > When I build my program I got a lot of:
> > > > > ld: warning: dylib (/usr/local/xnadalib-2021/lib/libgtk-3.dylib) was built for newer macOS version 
> > > > > (12.0) than being linked (11.0)
> > > > >
> > > > > It is not so clear.
> > > > > What is this actually meaning?
> > > > >
> > > > > This seems just to be a warning but my program shows some erroneous GTK executions.
> > > > >
> > > > > How to deal with it?
> > > > >
> > > > > NB : with GTK which was built when I was on macOS 11, I have no warning and no issue to build my 
> > > > > program on macOS 12.
> > > > Have you installed homebrew? If so, rename or remove it while compiling gtk-osx.
> > > No Paul, I haven't.
> > OK, interesting. It seems that you do have something in /usr/local though - do you know what it is?
>
> I found only CLI tools like BBEdit or OSXFuse.
>
> > > I have MacPorts installed in /opt/local but not in PATH.
> > > Should I delete XDG_CACHE_HOME folder before building GTK?
> >
> > I don't know, sorry. My feeling is that you shouldn't need to do so.
>
> When looking in environnement variables in jhbuild shell, I found:
> [JH] % echo $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET 
> 12
>
> Should I specify 11 in calling setup_sdk in jhbuildrc-custom?
>
> If so, I wonder: why the link message is issued as I have rebuilt all on macOS 12?

The link message is saying that whatever you're trying to link was compiled with macosx-version-min=11.0 
while libgtk-3.dylib was compiled with macosx-version-min=12.0. Did you perhaps forget to reconfigure your 
project after rebuilding everything else?

Regards,
John Ralls