meson configure fail with Python 3.12

[xanadu6291]

Important Information

Provide following Information:

• mpv version
  0.36.0-UNKNOWN and 0.36 stable release

• macOS Version
  macOS 14.0

• Source of the mpv binary or bundle
  Git head / tag 0.36

• If known which version of mpv introduced the problem
  Not sure

• Possible screenshot or video of visual glitches
  Unrelated

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Releases are listed here: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/releases

Reproduction steps

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differs from your own.

Install Python 3.12

meson setup build

or

meson setup --prefix ${TARGET}
--default-library=static
-Dswift-flags="-target arm64-apple-macosx14.0"
build

Expected behavior

build mpv successfully

Actual behavior

Program /Volumes/mpv_compile/compile/mpv/TOOLS/macos-sdk-version.py found: YES (/Volumes/mpv_compile/compile/mpv/TOOLS/macos-sdk-version.py)

meson.build:1478:21: ERROR: Command /Volumes/mpv_compile/compile/mpv/TOOLS/macos-sdk-version.py failed with status 1.

Log file

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Program /Volumes/mpv_compile/compile/mpv/TOOLS/macos-sdk-version.py found: YES (/Volumes/mpv_compile/compile/mpv/TOOLS/macos-sdk-version.py)
Running command: /Volumes/mpv_compile/compile/mpv/TOOLS/macos-sdk-version.py
--- stdout ---

--- stderr ---
/Volumes/mpv_compile/compile/mpv/TOOLS/macos-sdk-version.py:46: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\d'
verRe = re.compile("(\d+)(\D+)(\d+)")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Volumes/mpv_compile/compile/mpv/TOOLS/macos-sdk-version.py", line 11, in
from distutils.version import StrictVersion
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

meson.build:1478:21: ERROR: Command /Volumes/mpv_compile/compile/mpv/TOOLS/macos-sdk-version.py failed with status 1.

Might be the issue is caused by Python 3.12. It removed distutils. Does mpv supports python 3.12?

Full meson log is:
meson-log.txt

Sample files

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Unrelated

[Dudemanguy]

Evidently that particular script is just using something that's legacy. Does this diff work for you?

diff --git a/TOOLS/macos-sdk-version.py b/TOOLS/macos-sdk-version.py
index e3a973e857..ae1d355539 100755
--- a/TOOLS/macos-sdk-version.py
+++ b/TOOLS/macos-sdk-version.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import re
 import os
 import string
 import sys
-from distutils.version import StrictVersion
+from packaging import version
 from shutil import which
 from subprocess import check_output
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ def find_macos_sdk():
         sdk_version = '10.10.0'
 
     # pick the higher version, always pick sdk over build if newer
-    if StrictVersion(build_version) > StrictVersion(sdk_version):
+    if version.parse(build_version) > version.parse(sdk_version):
         return sdk,build_version
     else:
         return sdk,sdk_version

[xanadu6291]

Thank you very much. The diff works perfectly. Even though I need to install packaging module, it's perfect!!

Ref: packaging install command:
pip3 install packaging