Command Line Tools

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Created Mar ’21

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Hi all,

New dev switched from Windows, trying to understand the wonderful world of Mac command line tools :)

I don't wish to use the full version of XCode as my IDE and it's too large to sit in the background. I want to use Git but get the 'xcrun error' as my active developer path does not exist.

I ran 'xcode-select --install' and recieve no error messages during installation but even after restarting get the same error. I checked the path of /users/user/library/developer and nothing has been installed in this location.

My OS is up to date (Big Sur 11.2.2) - can anyone help me or point me to a resource to manually download the command tools?

Thanks,
Luke

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Mar ’21

I don't wish to use the full version of Xcode as my IDE and it's too
large to sit in the background.

When you say “too large” do you mean “uses too much disk space”? That is, you want to limit yourself to the command-line tools because you don’t have the disk space to keep a full copy of Xcode around.

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