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Mac compile fails #116413 11/12/19 07:41 PM

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Hi, I compile mame for macos myself by cloning the github source, then running make. Lately, I keep getting errors like this:

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Archiving libformats.a...
fatal error: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/ranlib: can't move the output file to its final location: ../../../../osx_clang/bin/x64/Release/mame_mame/libformats.a (Resource busy)
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/ar: internal ranlib command failed
make[2]: *** [../../../../osx_clang/bin/x64/Release/mame_mame/libformats.a] Error 1
make[1]: *** [formats] Error 2
make: *** [macosx_x64_clang] Error 2

If I run make again it fails at a different point. Not sure what's wrong here... any ideas?

Re: Mac compile fails [Re: CRP] #116415 11/12/19 08:43 PM
Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 224 DC, USA W will Senior Member
will Senior Member W Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 224 DC, USA	I just compiled mame from the GitHub source yesterday without a problem. I'm running 10.15.1 and SDL 2.0.10 Have you installed the latest Xcode? Tell us which macOS version you're running and what kind of Mac you have. =will=

Re: Mac compile fails [Re: CRP] #116417 11/12/19 09:00 PM
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 108 Italy CRP OP Senior Member
OP CRP Senior Member Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 108 Italy	macos ver 10.15.1 Mac Mini 2018 3 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5 I am using Command Line Tools clang -v Apple clang version 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.8) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin19.0.0 Thread model: posix InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin Last edited by CRP; 11/12/19 09:01 PM.

Re: Mac compile fails [Re: CRP] #116418 11/12/19 09:07 PM
Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 224 DC, USA W will Senior Member
will Senior Member W Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 224 DC, USA	I have a slightly newer clang (?) - don't know if installing latest Xcode would help. clang -v Apple clang version 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.12) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin19.0.0 Thread model: posix InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin =will=

Re: Mac compile fails [Re: CRP] #116419 11/12/19 09:13 PM
Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 16,391 USA R R. Belmont Very Senior Member
R. Belmont Very Senior Member R Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 16,391 USA	Is MAME running when you're trying to compile? That's usually what "Resource busy" means. I build at least once a day on my MacBook Pro and haven't had any problems.

Re: Mac compile fails [Re: R. Belmont] #116422 11/13/19 07:32 PM
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 108 Italy CRP OP Senior Member
OP CRP Senior Member Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 108 Italy	no, mame is not running. I am really at a loss about these errors...

Re: Mac compile fails [Re: CRP] #116429 11/14/19 07:32 PM
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 108 Italy CRP OP Senior Member
OP CRP Senior Member Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 108 Italy	I was compiling with the source files on my NAS. If I compile with files on the local HD everything works fine. Not sure what the NAS is doing, but it generates those Resource Busy messages...

Re: Mac compile fails [Re: CRP] #116430 11/14/19 08:39 PM
Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 648 Germany belegdol Senior Member
belegdol Senior Member Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 648 Germany	Probably the latency introduced by the NAS is causing race conditions.

Re: Mac compile fails [Re: CRP] #116431 11/14/19 09:03 PM
Joined: Oct 2019 Posts: 21 McKinney, TX, USA R Robert Hildinger Member
Robert Hildinger Member R Joined: Oct 2019 Posts: 21 McKinney, TX, USA	Agreed. You can try adjusting your parallel build level to see if you can accomplish a build from NAS. Of course -j1 should avoid race conditions, but will be very, very slow...

Re: Mac compile fails [Re: CRP] #116432 11/14/19 09:23 PM
Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 16,391 USA R R. Belmont Very Senior Member
R. Belmont Very Senior Member R Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 16,391 USA	Is the NAS mounted via NFS or SMB? In my experience, NFS on macOS got flakey somewhere around 10.9 or 10.10 and hasn't improved since. I switched my MacBook to use SMB mounts instead of NFS and it's been totally stable (and gotten faster transfers).

Re: Mac compile fails [Re: CRP] #116524 11/30/19 12:50 PM
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 108 Italy CRP OP Senior Member
OP CRP Senior Member Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 108 Italy	I have tried remounting the NAS as smb, then I have re-cloned the git repository, and finally I run "make -j 1". compile always fails with the following message: Generating ../build/projects/sdl/mame/gmake-osx-clang/mame.make... Done. Generated 364/364 projects. Creating ../../../../osx_clang/bin/x64/Release Precompiling src/emu/emu.h... Compiling src/emu/drivers/empty.cpp... fatal error: malformed or corrupted AST file: 'malformed block record in AST file' 1 error generated. make[2]: * [../../../../osx_clang/obj/x64/Release/src/emu/drivers/empty.o] Error 1 make[1]: * [precompile] Error 2 make: *** [macosx_x64_clang] Error 2

Re: Mac compile fails [Re: CRP] #116525 11/30/19 03:55 PM
Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 16,391 USA R R. Belmont Very Senior Member
R. Belmont Very Senior Member R Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 16,391 USA	That's an internal Clang error. Apparently it can happen if there's bad/stale data in ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/ModuleCache, so deleting the contents of that directory can help.

Re: Mac compile fails [Re: CRP] #116526 11/30/19 04:37 PM
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 108 Italy CRP OP Senior Member
OP CRP Senior Member Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 108 Italy	Thanks, I found a similar suggestion online, but there is no Developer folder in my Library. btw I am just using Command Line tools (which has always worked in the past for me). Do I need a full XCode installation?

Re: Mac compile fails [Re: CRP] #116527 11/30/19 05:19 PM
Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 16,391 USA R R. Belmont Very Senior Member
R. Belmont Very Senior Member R Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 16,391 USA	No, you shouldn't need a full install. I guess for now the advice is to only compile MAME on your Mac's internal drive, and then move it to external afterwards.

Re: Mac compile fails [Re: CRP] #116528 11/30/19 05:37 PM
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 108 Italy CRP OP Senior Member
OP CRP Senior Member Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 108 Italy	I will do that, thanks for your help!

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