However, Xcode takes up quite a bit of disk space (over 4 GB), and furthermore, it's kind of pointless to install Xcode if you're only going to use the command line developer tools.įortunately, there's an easy way to install these developer tools without Xcode, saving you lots of disk space by only installing what you need. The command line developer tools are automatically installed if you install Xcode.
Aside from developers, the command line tools can offer benefits to normal users as well, like the ability to purge RAM for better performance. This guy by the handle of 'jhowarth' posted in a reply to my original post on this thread that Apple did originally plan to release a version of the Xcode 8's command-line tools suite for users of OS X v10.11.x 'El Capitan' but that they had to pull it at the last moment because of the glitch with the install script that you implied you also heard about - where did you guys here about that, by the way, as I haven't yet seen anything official that mentions anything along those lines as of yet…? In any case, could you, as I asked in a reply to your reply to ' WARNING: Xcode.app version (8.0) and Xcode Command Line Tools version (7.3) are not compatible.OS X is built upon a UNIX foundation, which grants you access to the benefits that UNIX offers, including the standard toolkit (make, gcc, clang, git, perl, svn, size, strings, id, and a lot more) via the command line developer tools, which are an essential if you're a developer. Well, I, for instance, am stuck with El Capitan until I get a new machine since the one I'm on now (a 24" mid-2007 aluminum iMac) is no longer supported by Sierra, so this is going to be a problem for me.
And, yet, for some strange reason, the expected update in question still hasn't appeared! I also checked Apple Developer Connection's manual 'Downloads for Apple Developers' page, but the El Capitan command-line tools installer wasn't listed there, either! To make matters even more confusing, I did see the macOS Sierra (10.12) command-line tools installer listed there! What in the heck is going on here?!? I need the command-line tools to continue using Homebrew in -build-from-source mode! So I went to get updates from the App Store today and saw that Xcode 8 was available for my mid-2007 aluminum iMac running OS X v10.11.6 'El Capitan.' I had a little trouble getting it to finish downloading and installing (probably since it's such a big download - I've had problmes like this before,) but I did finally manage to get it do that! In any case, once I was done doing that, I expected to find myself able to download and install the corresponding command line tools package update even though it didn't appear when I first checked for updates.
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