Using make on OS X

Question

I have a MacBook Pro where I'm trying to develop something.

I have a program that I want to build, and when I started using make , I got a "command not found" error. I did a google and qaru search and it doesn't seem to be a common problem. Why didn’t I install make and how do I get it?

I am very confused because I know that I used it relatively recently (last month or so) when I was on this laptop.

Answer 1

Have you installed the Apple developer tools? What happens if you type gcc -v?

It seems that you have not downloaded the development material. You can get it for free (after registration) from http://developer.apple.com/

Answer 2

For those of you who get to this page using Xcode 4.3 and Lion, the command line tools are no longer connected by default, and no / Developer anymore. To install them, open Xcode, go to "Settings" → "Downloads → Components → Command Line Tools". This should install make, gcc, etc.

Answer 3

Now there is another way to install gcc toolchain on OS X via osx-gcc-installer , which includes:

• NCA
• LLVM
• Clang
• Developer CLI tools (cleanup, creation, etc.)
• DevSDK (headers, etc.)

Download - 282 MB versus 3 GB for Xcode.

Answer 4

You will need to install the "Developer Tools", which are provided as additional packages on the OS X installation discs.

Answer 5

For Xcode 4.1, you can simply add / Developer / usr / bin to the PATH environment variable. This is easy to do:

$ export PATH = $ PATH: / Developer / usr / bin

Also, be sure to update the ~ / .bashrc file (or ~ / .profile or ~ / .bash_login).

Answer 6

In addition, if you transferred your user files and applications from one mac to another, you need to install Apple Developer Tools again. Migration Assistant does not consider installing developer tools.

Answer 7

If you installed Xcode 4.3 and its command line tools, simply open Terminal and enter the following: In Xcode 4.3, enter the following in Terminal:

export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin

Answer 8

@ Daniel's suggestion worked great for me. to install

  make 

, open Xcode, go to Settings → Downloads → Components → Command Line Tools. Then you can test with

  gcc -v 

Answer 9

I agree with two other answers: install Apple Developer Tools.

But it is also worth noting that OS X comes with ant and rake .

Answer 10

I believe that you can also get only Xcode command line tools, which are about 170 MB .. It is described in the brew configuration guide: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation and can be found here: https : //developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action#

Edit: this was mentioned above @josh

Answer 11

I found that developer tools are not as readily available as others. In El Capitan, in the terminal, I just used gcc -v, then he said gcc was not available and asked if I want to install the Apple Developer Tools command line. No Xcode download required. Terminal session below:

 Pauls-MBP:~ paulhillman$ gcc -v xcode-select: note: no developer tools were found at '/Applications/Xcode.app', requesting install. Choose an option in the dialog to download the command line developer tools. Pauls-MBP:~ paulhillman$ gcc -v Configured with: --prefix=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1 Apple LLVM version 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 Thread model: posix InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin