Patch for MacOS build

[more...@pm.me]

Hi Prosody team,

I am running prosody 0.13.1 on my Mac Mini, I thought I'd share the diff for the change I had to make to get it to build.

I'm Aster, or morerunes. I've been getting a prosody server set up and getting more into the weeds with XMPP in general lately. Hoping to contribute more in the future.

I would be interested in updating the homebrew package for prosody as well, as I hadn't initially realized it was out of date until I couldn't get sasl2 stuff working.

The change was pretty small and I've been running it for a couple weeks now without issues as far as I can tell, aside from the (I assume unrelated) "Your server's certificate is not trusted" messages when connecting to external servers, which I plan to spend time debugging later.

Thanks for your time!

Aster

The change was basically just to exclude two file descriptor flags that aren't available on MacOS. Here's the diff:

# HG changeset patch
# User morerunes <more...@protonmail.com>
# Date 1772724296 18000
# Thu Mar 05 10:24:56 2026 -0500
# Node ID d7fdb1395432270bece115585a16213f3097f50d
# Parent 414e731b5972c8431c813ca3fbcb5240a98bb5d2
enable compilation on MacOS

diff -r 414e731b5972 -r d7fdb1395432 util-src/pposix.c
--- a/util-src/pposix.c Mon Feb 16 17:56:32 2026 +0000
+++ b/util-src/pposix.c Thu Mar 05 10:24:56 2026 -0500
@@ -663,13 +663,17 @@
}

const char *pipe_flag_names[] = {
+#if !defined(__APPLE__)
"cloexec",
"direct",
+#endif
"nonblock"
};
const int pipe_flag_values[] = {
+#if !defined(__APPLE__)
O_CLOEXEC,
O_DIRECT,
+#endif
O_NONBLOCK
};

[Zash]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 03:35:37PM +0000, morerunes via prosody-dev wrote:
>I am running prosody 0.13.1 on my Mac Mini, I thought I'd share the diff for the change I had to make to get it to build.

Thanks for the patch.

>I'm Aster, or morerunes. I've been getting a prosody server set up and getting more into the weeds with XMPP in general lately. Hoping to contribute more in the future.

Looking forward to that then :)

>I would be interested in updating the homebrew package for prosody as well, as I hadn't initially realized it was out of date until I couldn't get sasl2 stuff working.

Feel free to submit general improvements as PRs.

One tricky part here is that the Homebrew stuff was never integrated
into our release scripts, so we'd keep forgetting to update it. I would
personally also like to reduce our dependency on GitHub and I'm not sure
how much Homebrew depends on it.

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Zash