Binder cannot understand the system headers with MacOS 15.5/Clang 17.0.0

[adamnovak]

I have MacOS 15.5 and Clang 17.0.0. I'm trying to run Binder, but it can't understand my system headers. I get a bunch of errors like this:

In file included from /Users/anovak/workspace/vg/deps/libbdsg/all_cmake_includes.hpp:1:
In file included from /Users/anovak/workspace/vg/deps/libbdsg/bdsg/include/bdsg/internal/binder_hook_bind.hpp:17:
In file included from /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/c++/v1/vector:308:
In file included from /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/c++/v1/__algorithm/copy.h:12:
In file included from /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/c++/v1/__algorithm/copy_move_common.h:12:
In file included from /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/c++/v1/__algorithm/iterator_operations.h:12:
In file included from /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/c++/v1/__algorithm/iter_swap.h:13:
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/c++/v1/__utility/declval.h:18:1: error: expected identifier or '{'
_LIBCPP_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_STD
^
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/c++/v1/__config:596:81: note: expanded from macro '_LIBCPP_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_STD'
                                      namespace _LIBCPP_TYPE_VISIBILITY_DEFAULT std {                                  \
                                                                                ^

I'm calling into build.py to install Binder, and it is selecting LLVM 13.0.0 as appropriate for my environment. It could be that a newer LLVM version is required, and build.py needs to be taught to select it.

[adamnovak]

Using LLVM 14.0.5 doesn't seem to work any better. A newer LLVM might need to be added as an option.

This might not come up in CI because the MacOS version in CI is being held back.

[lyskov]

@adamnovak have you tried upgrading version of LLVM that build.py install? I would recommend to initially simply override version here https://github.com/RosettaCommons/binder/blob/master/build.py#L124 for cases compiler_version >= 17 and try one of the latest LLVM first (say v20 or v19 or v18) and see what works. Could you please check if that work for you? Thanks,

[lyskov]

Also, @adamnovak could you please describe your system? I just tried using build.py -j32 --llvm 14.0.5 on Intel based Mac's and it seems to to work. Thanks,