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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
