Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#40982 closed enhancement (duplicate)

Is XCode really needed? Isn't XCode Command Line Tools sufficient?

Reported by: PerMildner Owned by: jmpalacios (Juan Manuel Palacios)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: website Version: 2.2.1
Keywords: Cc: ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Port:

Description

The install documentation, http://www.macports.org/install.php, item 1 says that XCode is needed. Item 2 says that the XCode Command Line tools are needed.

Is it really true that XCode itself is needed if the Command Line Tools are installed?

XCode itself is a huge install and, on OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the command line tools are easy to install (e.g. xcode-select --install or via cc --version) without even registering at developer.apple.com. For this reason it would be a good thing to remove XCode from the prerequisites if it is not really needed.

(Related: On OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the easiest way to install the command line tools is xcode-select --install, not by downloading them from developer.apple.com as the install guide suggests.)

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Cc: ryandesign@… added
Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

Yes, Xcode is needed. The request for Xcode to be optional is #29172.

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