Error: installing homebrew spirv-llvm-translator on unsupported Mac (12.7.6).

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Please ask If you need full 02.cmake.log

Note: I had earlier version installed, since this error started showing up (a month ago or so), unbrewed it and tried fresh install, but now I'm stuck without the translator. It is blocking other packages upgrade as it's a hard dependency (mesa, libclc etc).

==> Fetching spirv-llvm-translator
==> Downloading https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-LLVM-Translator/archive/refs/tags/v21.1.1.tar.gz
==> Downloading from https://codeload.github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-LLVM-Translator/tar.gz/refs/tags/v21.1.1
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==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask_tap_migrations.jws.json
==> cmake -S . -B build -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH=@loader_path/../lib -DLLVM_BUILD_TOOLS=ON -DLLVM_EXTERNAL_SPIRV_HEADERS_SOURCE_DIR=/usr/local/opt/spirv-headers
==> cmake --build build
Last 15 lines from ~/Library/Logs/Homebrew/spirv-llvm-translator/02.cmake.log:
INITIALIZE_PASS(SPIRVLowerBitCastToNonStandardTypeLegacy,
^
/usr/local/opt/llvm/include/llvm/PassSupport.h:58:3: note: expanded from macro 'INITIALIZE_PASS'
  INITIALIZE_PASS_END(passName, arg, name, cfg, analysis)
  ^
/usr/local/opt/llvm/include/llvm/PassSupport.h:47:30: note: expanded from macro 'INITIALIZE_PASS_END'
      PassInfo::NormalCtor_t(callDefaultCtor<passName>), cfg, analysis);       \
                             ^
8 errors generated.
gmake[2]: *** [lib/SPIRV/CMakeFiles/LLVMSPIRVLib.dir/build.make:236: lib/SPIRV/CMakeFiles/LLVMSPIRVLib.dir/SPIRVLowerBitCastToNonStandardType.cpp.o] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/private/tmp/spirv-llvm-translator-20251010-26699-ez7zkk/SPIRV-LLVM-Translator-21.1.1/build'
gmake[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:301: lib/SPIRV/CMakeFiles/LLVMSPIRVLib.dir/all] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/private/tmp/spirv-llvm-translator-20251010-26699-ez7zkk/SPIRV-LLVM-Translator-21.1.1/build'
gmake: *** [Makefile:139: all] Error 2

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PassSupport.h

 37   │ class Pass;
    38   │ 
    39   │ #define INITIALIZE_PASS_BEGIN(passName, arg, name, cfg, analysis)              \
    40   │   static void initialize##passName##PassOnce(PassRegistry &Registry) {
    41   │ 
    42   │ #define INITIALIZE_PASS_DEPENDENCY(depName) initialize##depName##Pass(Registry);
    43   │ 
    44   │ #define INITIALIZE_PASS_END(passName, arg, name, cfg, analysis)                \
    45   │   PassInfo *PI = new PassInfo(                                                 \
    46   │       name, arg, &passName::ID,                                                \
    47   │       PassInfo::NormalCtor_t(callDefaultCtor<passName>), cfg, analysis);       \
    48   │   Registry.registerPass(*PI, true);                                            \
    49   │   }                                                                            \
    50   │   static llvm::once_flag Initialize##passName##PassFlag;                       \
    51   │   void llvm::initialize##passName##Pass(PassRegistry &Registry) {              \
    52   │     llvm::call_once(Initialize##passName##PassFlag,                            \
    53   │                     initialize##passName##PassOnce, std::ref(Registry));       \
    54   │   }
    55   │ 
    56   │ #define INITIALIZE_PASS(passName, arg, name, cfg, analysis)                    \
    57   │   INITIALIZE_PASS_BEGIN(passName, arg, name, cfg, analysis)                    \
    58   │   INITIALIZE_PASS_END(passName, arg, name, cfg, analysis)
    59   │ 
    60   │ #define INITIALIZE_PASS_WITH_OPTIONS_BEGIN(PassName, Arg, Name, Cfg, Analysis) \
    61   │   INITIALIZE_PASS_BEGIN(PassName, Arg, Name, Cfg, Analysis)                    \
    62   │   PassName::registerOptions();
    63   │ 
    64   │ #define INITIALIZE_PASS_WITH_OPTIONS(PassName, Arg, Name, Cfg, Analysis)       \
    65   │   INITIALIZE_PASS_WITH_OPTIONS_BEGIN(PassName, Arg, Name, Cfg, Analysis)       \
    66   │   INITIALIZE_PASS_END(PassName, Arg, Name, Cfg, Analysis)

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λ system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType

Software:
System Software Overview:

  System Version: macOS 12.7.6 (21H1320)
  Kernel Version: Darwin 21.6.0
  Boot Volume: Macintosh HD
  Boot Mode: Normal
  Secure Virtual Memory: Enabled
  System Integrity Protection: Enabled
  Time since boot: 2:07

[svenvh]

Your snippet doesn't show enough of the error, but if I were to guess I'd suspect you have a mismatch between the SPIRV-LLVM-Translator version and the LLVM version. To build v21.1.1 you need llvm's release/21.x branch.

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@svenvh

I guess homebrew is running two releases ahead of SPIRV, forced upgrade is now 21.1.3 as of today (10/14/2025).

λ brew info llvm ==> llvm: stable 21.1.3, HEAD [keg-only] Next-gen compiler infrastructure https://llvm.org/ Installed /usr/local/Cellar/llvm/21.1.3 (9,240 files, 1.5GB) Built from source on 2025-10-14 at 17:41:57 From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/l/llvm.rb License: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception ==> Dependencies Build: cmake ✔, ninja ✔, swig ✔ Required: python@3.13 ✔, xz ✔, z3 ✔, zstd ✔ ==> Options