[GNC-dev] Building Mac version using SDK 12

[john]

> On Sep 14, 2022, at 9:41 PM, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> When I try to build either current maint or master using MacOSX12.1.sdk or MacOSX12.3.sdk for SDKROOT I get compile errors in gnc-filepath-utils.cpp.  The first error is
> 
> In file included from /System/Volumes/Data/tools/gnucash-maint/gnucash/libgnucash/core-utils/gnc-filepath-utils.cpp:64:
> In file included from /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX12.1.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Headers/Foundation.h:12:
> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX12.1.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Headers/NSBundle.h:91:143: error: function does not return NSString
> - (NSAttributedString *)localizedAttributedStringForKey:(NSString *)key value:(nullable NSString *)value table:(nullable NSString *)tableName NS_FORMAT_ARGUMENT(1) NS_REFINED_FOR_SWIFT API_AVAILABLE(macos(12.0), ios(15.0), watchos(8.0), tvos(15.0));
> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX12.1.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Headers/NSObjCRuntime.h:103:48: note: expanded from macro 'NS_FORMAT_ARGUMENT'
>        #define NS_FORMAT_ARGUMENT(A) __attribute__ ((format_arg(A)))
> 
> This is probably because there is something wrong with my build environment, but I was wondering if anyone else had seen this?

Mike,

I haven't had any errors like that. 

I don't understand the error but it seems to be an SDK error rather than anything we're doing. Might the compiler have gotten out of sync with the SDK?

Regards,
John Ralls