Hi Bill-

While I couldn’t get WSJT-X app to launch using gfortran 11 on Intel, I did 
manage to get the jt9 sub program working, I only tested FT8. It’s a shame the 
opposite is true for Apple M1 (where the main app works but jt9 exe crashes). 

best,
alex K6LOT


> On Sep 26, 2021, at 2:06 PM, Bill Somerville via wsjt-devel 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 26/09/2021 19:35, Alex Lelievre via wsjt-devel wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> Building for MacOS X is fairly straightforward.  I would recommend using 
>> Brew and not MacPorts but really it shouldn’t matter.
>> 
>> You need GCC6 for building the latest on Intel- I’ve tested the Mac build on 
>> Intel with the latest version of gfortran (11) and the app won’t launch, it 
>> dies inside of some date routines and I haven’t bothered to debug it.  For 
>> the Apple M1 build, there is no other compiler available for fortran other 
>> than gcc 11.  Unfortunately the M1 build has a crash bug in the FT8 decoder 
>> that is actually a compiler bug in gfortran 11.  So I don’t recommend trying 
>> to build for M1.
>> 
>> You can get gcc v6 here:
>> brew install gcc@6
> 
> Hi Alex and Mark,
> 
> gfortran 7 should be OK too, any newer and you will likely get binaries on 
> macOS that don't work. Work is in hand to sort out the parts of our code that 
> cause the newer gfortran versions to generate broken code, but it is a big 
> job as it involves some other releted major refactoring of code.
> 
> 73
> Bill
> G4WJS.
> 
> 
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