Error in precompiling FFMPEG and Cairo and CairoMakie

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Hi All,
Using Mac Big Sur (11.7.7; Intel Mac), I failed to precompile FFMPEG, Cairo, and CairoMakie. Julia version 1.9.2

The error message returned

Failed to precompile FFMPEG [c87230d0-a227-11e9-1b43-d7ebe4e7570a] to “/Users/xxxx/.julia/compiled/v1.9/FFMPEG/jl_HQW5vg”.
ERROR: LoadError: InitError: could not load library “/Users/xxxx/.julia/artifacts/ff3aadfd4ca3ccb50156bf905841eb68157b2086/lib/libavdevice.58.13.100.dylib”
dlopen(/Users/xxxx/.julia/artifacts/ff3aadfd4ca3ccb50156bf905841eb68157b2086/lib/libavdevice.58.13.100.dylib, 1): Library not loaded: @rpath/libfreetype.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Users/xxxx/.julia/artifacts/ff3aadfd4ca3ccb50156bf905841eb68157b2086/lib/libavdevice.58.13.100.dylib
Reason: Incompatible library version: libavdevice.58.13.100.dylib requires version 27.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 24.0.0

Would greatly appreciate if you can kindly provide some words to solve this issue.

Best,
Arindam Basu

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This has to be fixed in the registry, but basically you have to update FreeType2_jll to v2.13.1. Alternatively, update macOS to version 12 which completely ignores compatibility numbers. This is related to the issue discussed in libGR issue preventing compilation · Issue #525 · jheinen/GR.jl · GitHub

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Thanks a million for this solution, Mose @giordano ; Ultimately, I had to do a clean uninstall of my installation of Julia and start all over again. I installed FreeType2_jll@2.13.1, and then had to reinstall CairoMakie.

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This should have been fixed for everybody by [FFMPEG] Build against older version of FreeType2 by giordano · Pull Request #7164 · JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil · GitHub.