error: 'CGWindowListCreateImage' is unavailable: obsoleted in macOS 15.0 - Please use ScreenCaptureKit instead.

[mormegil6]

Hello,

I am trying to compile the VST3 plugins on MacOS 15.5 with M3 processor. I receive the following error message:

/Users/user/eclipsa-audio-plugin/third_party/JUCE/modules/juce_gui_basics/native/juce_Windowing_mac.mm:532:33:
  error: 'CGWindowListCreateImage' is unavailable: obsoleted in macOS 15.0 -
  Please use ScreenCaptureKit instead.

    532 |         CGImageRef screenShot = CGWindowListCreateImage (CGRectNull,
        |                                 ^

  
  /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Headers/CGWindow.h:271:33:
  note: 'CGWindowListCreateImage' has been explicitly marked unavailable here

    271 | CG_EXTERN CGImageRef __nullable CGWindowListCreateImage(CGRect screenBounds,
        |                                 ^

  7 warnings and 1 error generated.

  ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

From what I understand, the code needs to be changed in order to incorporate the updated ScreenCaptureKit. I am not sure how to fix this; please advise how can I proceed with compiling the plugins.

[mzed]

It's this issue: https://forum.juce.com/t/fixed-juce-not-compiling-in-sequoia-15-0/62868

[mormegil6]

Yes, I found that too; according to this thread, this issue was fixed in the JUCE development branch.

I have been able to hotfix that with a few commands that replace this particular submodule with the "develop" branch of the JUCE main repository, and then adds back other submodules (namely, Spatial Audio Framework and protobuf):

git clone --no-recurse-submodules https://github.com/google/eclipsa-audio-plugin.git && \
cd eclipsa-audio-plugin && \
git config -f .gitmodules submodule.third_party/JUCE.url https://github.com/juce-framework/JUCE.git && \
git config -f .gitmodules submodule.third_party/JUCE.branch develop && \
git submodule sync && \
git submodule update --init --remote --force

[mzed]

VST seems to build fine with the Juce 8 release, too.

[mormegil6]

Are you building on MacOS 15.5? I had quite a few of other issues, which I was able to fix, but they were quite tricky in my opinion.

[mzed]

MacOS 15.5, XCode 16.2 though