Project fails to build on macOS 15 (Sequoia) due to outdated JUCE dependency

[fabianramosg]

Hi, the project fails to configure on macOS 15. The JUCE submodule is using a deprecated function and throws this error: error: 'CGWindowListCreateImage' is unavailable: obsoleted in macOS 15.0 - Please use ScreenCaptureKit instead. Even updating the JUCE submodule to 'master' or 'develop' branch doesn't fix it. The project is unbuildable on modern macOS.

¿Any solution?

[QuentinFAIDIDE]

Hi Fabian!

I never tried to build it on mac, and I therefore never got to fix the bugs there, however I would love to.
I think muFFT library might also be a problem, but it is possible to use FFTW instead in the makefile if I remember right.

Is your mac Arm (M1) ? I do have one from work I could try building on...

I will leave this ticket open for broader MacOs support.

Thank you for reporting the issue.

[fabianramosg]

Hi! Thanks for the quick reply.

Yes, my Mac is an Arm Mac (Mac mini M4) and I am running macOS 15 (Sequoia).

We did a lot of debugging and found the exact error. You are right that muFFT might be a problem, but the build fails much earlier.

The problem is that the JUCE submodule (locked at version 7.0.9) is too old and is not compatible with macOS 15.

This is the specific error that stops the build:

error: 'CGWindowListCreateImage' is unavailable: obsoleted in macOS 15.0 - Please use ScreenCaptureKit instead.
We even tried manually updating the libs/JUCE submodule to the master and develop branches, but the error persists. It seems the JUCE team has not fixed this incompatibility with macOS 15 yet, even in their newest branches.

Thank you for leaving the ticket open!

[QuentinFAIDIDE]

It seems to have been fixed according to this issue in Juce: juce-framework/JUCE#1414
Maybe you had to delete the lib and build folder after changing the CMakelists.txt in order to pick the lastest juce ? It is quite old so I think even the last version tag of Juce should work. I wouldnt try master or develop though, but rather a specific version tag.
I will try to update to the latest juce one of those days, but it will take a while for me to find the time to do so.

Edit: the commits for the fix should be available in Juce:
8.0.10
8.0.9
8.0.8
8.0.7
8.0.6
8.0.5
8.0.4
8.0.3
8.0.2

[fabianramosg]

Hi! Thanks so much for the suggestion.

I just tried the plan. I went version by version through the list you gave me (8.0.10, 8.0.9, 8.0.8, etc.).

For each attempt, I followed the full cleanup process:

1. I went into libs/JUCE and used git checkout [the_corresponding_version].
2. I returned to the project root and deleted the build directory (rm -rf build).
3. I created a new, clean build directory and ran the cmake .. command again.

Unfortunately, the result was the same for all of them. Every single one of those versions still fails with the exact same error:

error: 'CGWindowListCreateImage' is unavailable: obsoleted in macOS 15.0 - Please use ScreenCaptureKit instead.

It seems the fix for macOS 15 isn't in those tags either, or there's some other, deeper issue.

Thanks again for your help!

[QuentinFAIDIDE]

You're welcome!
Hopefully we will get to the bottom of this issue soon.
And thank you for reporting it.

[fabianramosg]

Thanks to you, I hope we will soon have the MacOS version.