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Mac users who prefer to have a more traditional Unix toolkit accessible to them through the Terminal may wish to install the optional Command Line Tools subsection of the Xcode IDE. From OS X Mavericks onward, this is now easily possible directly and without installing the entire Xcode package first, no developer account is required either. The Command Line Tool package gives terminal users many commonly used tools, utilities, and compilers, including make, GCC, clang, perl, svn, git, size, strip, strings, libtool, cpp, what, and many other useful commands that are usually found in default linux installations. We’ve included the full list of new binaries available through the command line toolkit below for those interested, or you can just see for yourself after you have installed the package, which we’ll walk through here.

This guide is geared towards OS X 10.9 and newer. Mac users running prior versions of OS X can continue to directly install Command Line Tools and gcc (without Xcode) through a package installer available through the Apple Developer website as described here.

Installing Command Line Tools in Mac OS X

1. Launch the Terminal, found in /Applications/Utilities/


2. Type the following command string:
   

   xcode-select --install
   
   

   
   


3. A software update popup window will appear that asks: “The xcode-select command requires the command line developer tools. Would you like to install the tools now?” choose to confirm this by clicking “Install”, then agree to the Terms of Service when requested (feel free to read them thoroughly, we’ll be here)
   

   

   
   


4. Wait for the Command Line Tools package download to complete, it’ll be about 130MB and installs fairly quickly depending on your connection speed
   

   

   
   

The installer goes away on its own when complete, and you can then confirm everything is working by trying to use one of the commands that were just installed, like gcc, git, svn, rebase, make, ld, otool, nm, whatever you want from the list below. Assuming the installation went uninterrupted, the command will execute as expected. This also means you can compile and install things from source code directly without having to use a package manager. Enjoy your new unix command line toolkit!

What Installs with Command Line Tools and Where

For those interested, the entire package command line toolkit package gets placed in the following directory:

/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/

(note that is the root /Library, not user ~/Library)

If you want to see the 61 new commands available to you, they’re all in /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/ and we have listed them below for convenience:



ar

as

asa

bison

BuildStrings

c++

c89

c99

cc

clang

clang++

cmpdylib

codesign_allocate

CpMac

cpp

ctags

ctf_insert

DeRez

dsymutil

dwarfdump

dyldinfo

flex

flex++

g++

gatherheaderdoc

gcc

gcov

GetFileInfo

git

git-cvsserver

git-receive-pack

git-shell

git-upload-archive

git-upload-pack

gm4

gnumake

gperf

hdxml2manxml

headerdoc2html

indent

install_name_tool

ld

lex

libtool

lipo

lldb

lorder

m4

make

MergePef

mig

mkdep

MvMac

nasm

ndisasm

nm

nmedit

otool

pagestuff

projectInfo

ranlib

rebase

redo_prebinding

ResMerger

resolveLinks

Rez

RezDet

RezWack

rpcgen

segedit

SetFile

size

SplitForks

strings

strip

svn

svnadmin

svndumpfilter

svnlook

svnrdump

svnserve

svnsync

svnversion

unifdef

unifdefall

UnRezWack

unwinddump

what

xml2man

yacc

Troubleshooting “not currently available” error

Getting an error message that says “Can’t install the software because it is not currently available from the Software Update server”? Well you’re in luck, because that error message probably indicates you already have Xcode installed on the Mac.

From OS X 10.9 onward, if Xcode is already installed in OS X then Command Line Tools becomes installed as well (you can check this by trying to run gcc or make from the terminal). Accordingly, this tutorial is aimed at users who do not want to install the broader Xcode development package, and would rather only have the command line utilities installed instead. Yes, that means you can uninstall the entire Xcode app and only install the command line tools if you want to, since for many users and sysadmins that’s the only reason they installed Xcode to begin with.

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