工具“xcodebuild”需要 Xcode，但活动开发者目录“/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools”是命令行工具实例

Question

This is very much a duplicate of xcode-select active developer directory error except none of those solutions worked for me.

$ sudo xcode-select --reset
$ sudo xcodebuild -license accept                                  
xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance
$ sudo xcode-select --install
xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates

I don't even have xcode on my machine.

Answer 1

The fix for me here was that my [ XCode > Preferences > Locations > Command Line Tools ] dropdown was empty. No idea why. But after clicking it and selecting the only available option my " active developer directory " error finally went away.

Mac Os 12.3.1 | Date: 5/4/22

Answer 2

This is very much a duplicate of xcode-select active developer directory error except none of those solutions worked for me.

$ sudo xcode-select --reset
$ sudo xcodebuild -license accept                                  
xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance
$ sudo xcode-select --install
xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates

I don't even have xcode on my machine.

Answer 3

I had this problem because Xcode was installed in my user application directory (~/Applications) instead of /Applications. From the Github link above figured out I needed to run:

sudo xcode-select -s ~/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

(note the tilde). After this everything worked.

Answer 4

This error completely contradicts that setting the path to /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools is the workaround for the latest XCode/MacOS combo failing to find the command line tool commands under /Application/Xcode.App/ with the default path setting.