The easiest way to achieve this is by removing the old version of the tools, and installing the new one. In most cases updating macOS first will solve the problem and allow Xcode to be updated as well.Ī large portion of users are landing on this answer in an attempt to update the Xcode Command Line Tools. The cause for this is more than likely a pending macOS update (as pointed out below). You can get the name from the list command.Īs it was mentioned in the comments here is the man page for the softwareupdate tool.Ī lot of users are experiencing problems where softwareupdate -install -a will in fact not update to the newest version of Xcode.

You can use softwareupdate -list to see what's available and then softwareupdate -install -a to install all updates or softwareupdate -install to install just the Xcode update (if available). The command you need to update Xcode is softwareupdate command. Hence the error message you got - the tools are already installed. In Xcode preferences, Locations/Command Line Tools says Xcode 13.4.1 (13F100) which matches the version of Xcode I have installed.What you are actually using is the command to install the Xcode command line tools - xcode-select -install. If I run gcc from Homebrew, I can run gcc with no input files, but as soon as I run gcc -o loop loop.c I run into the same xcrun error. I am able to run /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/clang (which gets around tools like gcc which I believe just invoke xcrun to call clang) but nothing seems to be linked as I am met with loop.c:1:10: fatal error: 'stdio.h' file not found Running xcode-select -install tells me xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use 'Software Update' to install updatesīut of course there are no software updates for this. with restarts all over the place to no avail.

I've tried all the fixes online like sudo xcode-select -r and sudo xcode-select -switch. The issue is similar to this post but downloading the dmg and installing the tools manually does not fix my issue. My make command suddenly stopped working, prompting me to install Command Line Tools, but after installing from the pop-up I get the error xcrun: error: invalid DEVELOPER_DIR path (/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer), missing xcrun at: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcrunĪnd indeed xcrun is missing in that directory.

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