This update is recommended for all OS X El Capitan users. The OS X El Capitan v10.11.6 Update improves the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, and is recommended for all users. This update: Resolves an issue that may prevent settings from being saved in accounts with parental controls enabled. Download OS X El Capitan Max Xcode For El Capitan Update. For the strongest security and latest features, find out whether you can upgrade to macOS Catalina, the latest version of macOS. If you still need OS X El Capitan, use this link: Download OS X El Capitan. A file named InstallMacOSX.dmg will download to your Mac. Install the macOS installer.
I am not even going to explain how much work it was to get El Capitan on a 2009 Mac mini. Nor will I discuss how ridiculous it was to replace the HDD with a SSD as the boot drive without having the original disk and without cloning. It's been a pretty interesting 24 hours since getting this machine and staring at screens going through issues I've never experienced in decades of Windows PCs.
So,to give a backfround, all I wanted to do was test build projects right? All I wanted was a very cheap $99 way to test out my projects on iOS as I plan on releasing my games on the platform in the future. I do not want to hear about how I should have bought a computer that costs 5x as much to do these test builds.
Anyways I got unity installed and was going to deploy a sample project. Can anyone explain to me why the version of xcode on the app store doesn't support El Capitan? See, I can't figure it out because if there is anything I now know about code now it is that legacy platforms can run our application, just without all the newest things.
So, am I missing something like usual or is there really no way to make this work? How can I get old versions of xcode so I can just test out my projects. I am not asking for a lot here. Any help would be greatly appreciated...honestly I am about ready to break down if I just wasted around 14 hours getting this far. Thank you so much for your time, I await your answers.
Question or issue on macOS:
I am trying to update Command line tools on my mac osx.
But when I run the update command, I get this error:
This doesn’t work either:
What is the exact string I should specify after sofwareupdate -i?
How to solve this problem?
Solution no. 1:
For future travelers, here’s a version-agnostic approach. First, run softwareupdate --list. This will probably take a couple of minutes. When it’s done, you’ll see a bulleted (with an asterisk) output like this:
Find the bullet that refers to the Xcode command line tools. Copy that entire line (except the asterisk…). In the above case, you would copy: Command Line Tools (macOS High Sierra version 10.13) for Xcode-10.1
Then, run the install command (as shown by Brendan Shanks) with what you copied inside quotes:
Solution no. 2:
I’m going to answer a slightly different question here, because this question came up when I searched for a solution to my problem. Hopefully it’ll help someone (and it’ll surely help me next time I run into the same issue).
I wanted to upgrade the command line tools from version 8 to 9. The App Store didn’t suggest this upgrade, and neither did softwareupdate --list.
installed the new version of the tools. But clang --version still gave 8.0.0 as the version number. xcode-select -r and rebooting didn’t solve this issue.
xcode-select -p returned /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer, and clang --version reported an installation directory under there. I thought I’d start over again.
deleted version 8 of the tools. But xcode-select --install said the command line tools were already installed.
Now, sudo xcode-select -p returns /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/.
It seems that the problem was that the new version of the tools are installed to a different directory, and xcode-select -r is not clever enough to find the latest version.
Solution no. 3:
Run softwareupdate -i 'Command Line Tools (macOS El Capitan version 10.11) for Xcode-8.2'. The quotes are important.
Solution no. 4:
I faced similar problem on MacOS Mojave version 10.14.3 with Xcode 10.3 installed.
The real problem was, when I installed the Xcode 10.3, I deleted the “Xcode-beta.app” first and then installed the new version. Therefore, when I tried installing CLion for C++ development and configuring it, CMake gave me error And Updating Command Line Tool didnt work for me:
and showed me this response in terminal
Then I tried to check the version of Clang using:
And the response lead me to the real problem i.e. Active Developer path was still pointing to Old version of Xcode that I had already deleted.
Therefore, I switched the active developer path to latest Xcode App installed using:
And everything worked like a charm automatically.
Solution no. 5:
El Capitan Updates
I ran the same command with sudo and that did the trick.
sudo softwareupdate -i 'Command Line Tools (macOS El Capitan version 10.11) for Xcode-8.2'
Solution no. 6:
Mac El Capitan
when upgrading to MacOS Catalina, Version 10.15.* you can install the command line tools for xcode 11.3 like this: