[CMake] Xcode without 'command line tools' & xcrun & CMake

[David Cole]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Nowadays, Xcode is distributed as a standalone .app instead of an
> installer that copies files all over the place.  As a consequence of this,
> nothing gets installed at /usr/bin/make, /usr/bin/cc, etc.
>
> Optionally, one can install a separate 'command line tools' package that
> places things at those venerable locations.  Without installing that, one
> can still find and use 'make' and other tools using 'xcrun' (see 'man
> xcrun').  ex:
>
> $ xcrun make --version
> GNU Make 3.81
>
> $ xcrun -find make
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make
>
> Without the 'command line tools' installed, CMake seems unable to get far:
>
> Error(s) when configuring the project
> CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to
> "Unix Makefiles".  CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set.  You probably need to
> select a different build tool.
>
> It would be nice if CMake would invoke 'xcrun -find' to find the paths to
> the tools it needs.  Or can it already, and I'm missing something?
>
> Thanks,
>
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Good idea, but no, this is not implemented yet. We did not know about
"xcrun" yet. Thanks for the info.

For now, install the command line tools.

And, of course, patches are welcome. :-)
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