[Solved] 2.2.0 will not compile on macOS, Error: Id: framework not found Cocoa

[ArminLinder]

After having been Mac-absent for a couple of months now, I tried to do a quick installation of the latest Lazarus 2.2.0 on macOS Big Sur. Failed. the Lazarus and FPC packages installed fine, but when trying to compile anything, including the IDE, the process fails, and this is the log (e.g. when trying to rebuild Lazarus (normal IDE))

Build IDE: Exit code 2, Errors: 3
Error: ld: framework not found Cocoa
An error occurred while linking
Error: Error while linking
make[2]: *** [lazarus] Error 1
make[1]: *** [idepkg] Error 2
Error: make: *** [idepkg] Error 2

Bah. Yes, the Xcode-Tools are installed. Proof:

xcode-select --install says:

xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install update

and xcode-select -v says:

xcode-select version 2384

and xcode-select -p says

/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

and ls -R /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools lists tons of files.

Mac pros ... any ideas?

Armin.

P.S. More Info:

I switched the program (which btw is the auto-generated empty unit Unit1; program) to qt, qt5, gtk2 ... all fail as well.

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1. Compile Project, Target: /Users/linder-mac11/tmp/project1: Exit code 1, Errors: 2
2. Error: ld: library not found for -lc
3. An error occurred while linking
4. Error: Error while linking
5.  

[ArminLinder]

Hi,

I have an urgend problem: I needed to compile an old program of mine for the Mac. I installed MacOS Big Sur in a VM, installed the XCode-Tools and the Lazarus and FPC packages.

Lazarus starts fine, but as soon as I try to compile anything, the build process breaks:

Compile Project, Target: /Users/linder-mac11/tmp/project1: Exit code 1, Errors: 2
Error: ld: framework not found Cocoa
An error occurred while linking
Error: Error while linking

The standard assumption about what's wrong seems to be that the XCode Command Line tools are missing, I installed it and verified the installation in various ways (e.g. xcode-select -v
responding "xcode-select version 2384", executed clang -v, gcc -v, git -v -- all of these display some info so they are installed), so I came to the conclusion that the issue is caused by something else.

About - Compoile project says:

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1. Compile Project, Target: /Users/linder-mac11/tmp/project1
2.  
3. Compile Reason: State file "/Users/linder-mac11/tmp/lib/x86_64-darwin/project1.compiled" of Project is missing.
4.  
5.  
6. Executable:
7. /usr/local/bin/fpc
8.  
9. CurrentDirectory is test build directory:
10. /Users/linder-mac11/tmp/
11.  
12. Parameters:
13. -B
14. -MObjFPC
15. -Scghi
16. -O1
17. -gw
18. -gl
19. -k-framework
20. -kCocoa
21. -l
22. -vewnhibq
23. -Fi/Users/linder-mac11/tmp/lib/x86_64-darwin
24. -Fu/Users/linder-mac11/.lazarus/lib/units/x86_64-darwin/cocoa
25. -Fu/Applications/Lazarus/lcl/units/x86_64-darwin
26. -Fu/Applications/Lazarus/components/freetype/lib/x86_64-darwin
27. -Fu/Applications/Lazarus/components/lazutils/lib/x86_64-darwin
28. -Fu/Applications/Lazarus/packager/units/x86_64-darwin
29. -FU/Users/linder-mac11/tmp/lib/x86_64-darwin/
30. -FE/Users/linder-mac11/tmp/
31. -o/Users/linder-mac11/tmp/project1
32. -dLCL
33. -dLCLcocoa
34. /Users/linder-mac11/tmp/project1.lpr
35.  
36. Command Line:
37. /usr/local/bin/fpc -B -MObjFPC -Scghi -O1 -gw -gl -k-framework -kCocoa -l -vewnhibq -Fi/Users/linder-mac11/tmp/lib/x86_64-darwin -Fu/Users/linder-mac11/.lazarus/lib/units/x86_64-darwin/cocoa -Fu/Applications/Lazarus/lcl/units/x86_64-darwin -Fu/Applications/Lazarus/components/freetype/lib/x86_64-darwin -Fu/Applications/Lazarus/components/lazutils/lib/x86_64-darwin -Fu/Applications/Lazarus/packager/units/x86_64-darwin -FU/Users/linder-mac11/tmp/lib/x86_64-darwin/ -FE/Users/linder-mac11/tmp/ -o/Users/linder-mac11/tmp/project1 -dLCL -dLCLcocoa /Users/linder-mac11/tmp/project1.lpr
38.  
39. Parsers: make, FPC
40.  
41. ProcessID:
42. 1189
43.  
44. ExitCode:
45. 1
46. ExitStatus:
47. 256
48.  
49. Error: Exit code 1
50.  

If I execute the above fpc command in a terminal, I get:

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1. Hint: (11030) Start of reading config file /etc/fpc.cfg
2. Hint: (11031) End of reading config file /etc/fpc.cfg
3. Free Pascal Compiler version 3.2.2 [2021/05/16] for x86_64
4. Copyright (c) 1993-2021 by Florian Klaempfl and others
5. (1002) Target OS: Darwin for x86_64
6. (3104) Compiling /Users/linder-mac11/tmp/project1.lpr
7. (3104) Compiling ./tmp/unit1.pas
8. (9009) Assembling unit1
9. (9009) Assembling project1
10. (9022) Compiling resource /Users/linder-mac11/tmp/lib/x86_64-darwin/project1.or
11. (9015) Linking /Users/linder-mac11/tmp/project1
12. ld: framework not found Cocoa
13. An error occurred while linking
14. Error: (9013) Error while linking
15. Fatal: (10026) There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
16. Fatal: (1018) Compilation aborted
17. Error: /usr/local/bin/ppcx64 returned an error exitcode
18.  

Seems to be an issue with the linker. Is there more logging available somewhere so I can possibly find out more about what exactly is failing?

Thnx, Armin.

[Jonas Maebe]

Is the target architecture set to x86-64 (as opposed to i386)? And/or is the compiler in Lazarus set to either /usr/local/bin/fpc or "/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.2.2/ppcx64 (as opposed to /usr/local/lib/fpc/3.2.2/ppc386)?

[trev]

Check your /etc/fpc.cfg for -XR and -Fl options.

In /etc/fpc.cfg you should have:

-XR/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk
-Fl/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/lib

If the Wiki instructions are followed, all this should already exist. If they don't, then I'd uninstall and start again.

[ArminLinder]

Resolved.

Since it was a VM, I reset it to a snapshot taken before installing Lazarus and the XCode tools, and tried again. I swear, I used the same packages, and did everything in exactly the same order, like shown in the Wiki.

This time, I succeeded.

This is good, because I can start working now, and bad, since the cause of the issue cannot be found any more.

Thanks for your attempts to help,

Armin.