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Hi,

Not sure where to post this question, but since a google brought up your avator, I thought I would post it here, where you seem to be very active.

I have followed (what I believe to be) your instructions at: https://github.com/acidanthera/bugtracker/issues/1913

When I get to the final step of building WAG's kext from within Xcode applicaton, the Build says it worked, but I the .kext does not get created. The only error I see in the app is:

ResourceConverter: Invalid usage
Program ended with exit code: 1
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Building from the command line I get these warnings, and no .kext generated:
Command line invocation:
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild -configuration Debug

User defaults from command line:
IDEPackageSupportUseBuiltinSCM = YES

note: Using new build system
note: Planning
Analyze workspace

Create build description
Build description signature: 4fabe993aec526108111c57d6f9c5c8e
Build description path: /Users/me/Projects/WhateverGreen/build/XCBuildData/4fabe993aec526108111c57d6f9c5c8e-desc.xcbuild

note: Build preparation complete
warning: Building targets in manual order is deprecated - check "Parallelize build for command-line builds" in the project editor, or set DISABLE_MANUAL_TARGET_ORDER_BUILD_WARNING in any of the targets in the current build to suppress this warning
warning: ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=YES requested with multiple ARCHS and no active architecture could be computed; building for all applicable architectures (in target 'ResourceConverter' from project 'WhateverGreen')
warning: ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=YES requested with multiple ARCHS and no active architecture could be computed; building for all applicable architectures (in target 'WhateverGreen' from project 'WhateverGreen')
/Users/me/Projects/WhateverGreen/WhateverGreen.xcodeproj: error: The linked library 'libkmod.a' is missing one or more architectures required by this target: arm64e. (in target 'WhateverGreen' from project 'WhateverGreen')
** BUILD FAILED **
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I do see libkmod.a in

../MacKernelSDK/Library/universal/libkmod.a
../MacKernelSDK/Library/x86_64/libkmod.a

I have created a symlink in WhateverGreen directory to ../MacKernalSDK

% pwd
/Users/me/Projects/WhateverGreen
Z390-iMac WhateverGreen % ls MacKernelSDK/Library/universal
libkmod.a libkmodc++.a


Any suggestions on how to build version 1.6.1 successfully?
 
Why not download the prebuilt release of WhateverGreen.kext (WEG) 1.6.1?

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Edhawk said:
Why not download the prebuilt release of WhateverGreen.kext (WEG) 1.6.1?
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Cause

  1. I'm a nerd wanting to know what I may be doing wrong
  2. I wanted the flexibility of self compiles, if I want to attempt supporting other AMD graphics cards
Given the volume of responses to my question, you are likely correct in suggesting I follow the standard path.
 
tecemac said:
Cause

  1. I'm a nerd wanting to know what I may be doing wrong
  2. I wanted the flexibility of self compiles, if I want to attempt supporting other AMD graphics cards
Given the volume of responses to my question, you are likely correct in suggesting I follow the standard path.
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Nothing wrong with any of that. I build a custom AppleALC.kext with a different layout for my laptop. Anyway I was able to build the current WhateverGreen.kext as follows:

Open Terminal change to your working directory and enter the following:
Code: 
git clone https://github.com/acidanthera/WhateverGreen
Change to the WhateverGreen directory.
Code: 
git clone https://github.com/acidanthera/MacKernelSDK (Or symlink to the existing folder)
Download the debug version of Lilu.kext and extract to the WhateverGreen directory. Then build WEG.
Code: 
xcodebuild -configuration Debug
The kext will be under WhateverGreen/build/Debug
 
@jpz4085
Thanks for the help, but still not compiling....
Code: 
% xcodebuild -configuration Debug
2022-08-02 10:05:24.499 xcodebuild[58578:801029] Requested but did not find extension point with identifier Xcode.IDEKit.ExtensionSentinelHostApplications for extension Xcode.DebuggerFoundation.AppExtensionHosts.watchOS of plug-in com.apple.dt.IDEWatchSupportCore
2022-08-02 10:05:24.499 xcodebuild[58578:801029] Requested but did not find extension point with identifier Xcode.IDEKit.ExtensionPointIdentifierToBundleIdentifier for extension Xcode.DebuggerFoundation.AppExtensionToBundleIdentifierMap.watchOS of plug-in com.apple.dt.IDEWatchSupportCore
Command line invocation:
    /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild -configuration Debug

User defaults from command line:
    IDEPackageSupportUseBuiltinSCM = YES

note: Using new build system
note: Planning
Analyze workspace

Create build description
Build description signature: 8990193fcd5e2c08ade8e3203b9ab005
Build description path: /Users/me/Projects/WhateverGreen/build/XCBuildData/8990193fcd5e2c08ade8e3203b9ab005-desc.xcbuild

note: Build preparation complete
warning: Building targets in manual order is deprecated - check "Parallelize build for command-line builds" in the project editor, or set DISABLE_MANUAL_TARGET_ORDER_BUILD_WARNING in any of the targets in the current build to suppress this warning
warning: ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=YES requested with multiple ARCHS and no active architecture could be computed; building for all applicable architectures (in target 'ResourceConverter' from project 'WhateverGreen')
warning: ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=YES requested with multiple ARCHS and no active architecture could be computed; building for all applicable architectures (in target 'WhateverGreen' from project 'WhateverGreen')
/Users/me   /Projects/WhateverGreen/WhateverGreen.xcodeproj: error: The linked library 'libkmod.a' is missing one or more architectures required by this target: arm64e. (in target 'WhateverGreen' from project 'WhateverGreen')
** BUILD FAILED **

% pwd
/Users/me/Projects/WhateverGreen

%
% ls -la
total 96
drwxr-xr-x  19 me     staff    608 Aug  2 10:05 .
drwxr-xr-x  18 me     staff    576 Jul 25 15:27 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 me     staff   6148 Jul 26 13:29 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x  15 me     staff    480 Aug  2 09:56 .git
drwxr-xr-x   3 me     staff     96 Jul 23 19:22 .github
-rw-r--r--   1 me     staff    333 Jul 23 19:22 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--   1 me     staff  15548 Jul 23 19:22 Changelog.md
-rw-r--r--@  1 me     staff   1479 Jul 23 19:22 LICENSE.txt
lrwxr-xr-x   1 me     staff     29 Aug  2 10:05 Lilu.kext -> ../Lilu/build/Debug/Lilu.kext
lrwxr-xr-x   1 me     staff     15 Jul 26 09:55 MacKernelSDK -> ../MacKernelSDK
drwxr-xr-x  19 me     staff    608 Jul 23 19:22 Manual
drwxr-xr-x   7 me     staff    224 Jul 23 19:28 Prebuilt
-rw-r--r--   1 me     staff  12371 Jul 23 19:22 README.md
drwxr-xr-x   4 me     staff    128 Jul 23 19:22 ResourceConverter
drwxr-xr-x   3 me     staff     96 Jul 23 19:22 Resources
drwxr-xr-x   8 me     staff    256 Jul 23 19:28 Tools
drwxr-xr-x  40 me     staff   1280 Jul 26 13:29 WhateverGreen
drwxr-xr-x@  5 me     staff    160 Jul 26 10:01 WhateverGreen.xcodeproj
drwxr-xr-x@  3 me     staff     96 Jul 26 09:55 build

% find . -follow -name  libkmod\*
./MacKernelSDK/Library/universal/libkmod.a
./MacKernelSDK/Library/universal/libkmodc++.a
./MacKernelSDK/Library/kmod/libkmodtest
./MacKernelSDK/Library/kmod/libkmodtest/libkmodtest.h
./MacKernelSDK/Library/kmod/libkmodtest/libkmodtest.cpp
./MacKernelSDK/Library/kmod/libkmodtest/libkmodtest-Info.plist
./MacKernelSDK/Library/kmod/libkmod.xcodeproj
./MacKernelSDK/Library/x86_64/libkmod.a

I hope you can see that the find command sees libkmod.a. So I'm not sure what is wrong with the build failure seen at the top.
 
tecemac said:
I hope you can see that the find command sees libkmod.a. So I'm not sure what is wrong with the build failure seen at the top.
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tecemac said:
The linked library 'libkmod.a' is missing one or more architectures required by this target: arm64e.
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Looks like it's attempting to compile for ARM because no active architecture could be determined. Try the build command below:
Code: 
xcodebuild -configuration Debug ARCHS=x86_64
 
tecemac said:
I have a debug build, success!
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Awesome!
tecemac said:
I would why the default build config doesn't have the ARCHS defined by default?
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Good question. The architecture is defined correctly in the Xcode project configuration at least on my machine. Open the project file and check Architectures under Build Settings.
tecemac said:
Am I the only person who's come across this?
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Probably not. I vaguely recall seeing something similar happen with VoodooPS2Controller.kext a long time ago. Haven't since then but my build environment probably isn't identical to yours either.
 
jpz4085 said:
The architecture is defined correctly in the Xcode project configuration at least on my machine. Open the project file and check Architectures under Build Settings.
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Checked. It used to be ACID32 Architecture. I have changed all of these to Intel X64-bit architecture.

The Xcode GUI now fails with:

ld: warning: The i386 architecture is deprecated for macOS (remove from the Xcode build setting: ARCHS)

Tried, unsuccessfully to find if there is a definition for ARCHS variable in the project settings but I couldn't find one.

I have changed so much now, I will have to do a clean install (git reset --hard HEAD), and start again.
 
Here is the full command line I am using to compile without warnings (or errors )

Code: 
%   /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild -configuration Debug ARCHS=x86_64 --stdlib=libc++

Funny when I grep in the WhateverGreen repository I find:

% grep -R ARCHS * |less
WhateverGreen.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj: ARCHS = x86_64;

So it seems like it is correct (?) by default.
 
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