Persumi - Level up your writing and blogging with AI Fred Wu ifredwu@gmail.com http://persumi.com/u/fredwu http://persumi.com/u/fredwu/tech/e/blog/t/osx-gcc-installer 2026-04-15T15:49:31.332029Z <![CDATA[<p> If you are like me who has no need for a full Xcode installation just to get the command line tools, chances are you are using one of these: Apple’s <a href="https://developer.apple.com/downloads/">Command Line Tools</a> or the <a href="https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer">osx-gcc-installer</a>.</p> <p> Recently Node.js has made some changes so that it no longer installs on OS X via <a href="http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/">homebrew</a> if you don’t have Xcode installed.</p> <p> If you run <code class="inline">brew install nodejs</code>, you will get the following error:</p> <pre><code class="shell language-shell">\> Error: Failed executing: make install (node.rb:28)</code></pre> <p> And if you run <code class="inline">brew install -v nodejs</code>, you will discover this line:</p> <pre><code class="shell language-shell">\> xcode-select: Error: No Xcode is selected. Use xcode-select -switch , or see the xcode-select manpage (man xcode-select) for further information.</code></pre> <p> The fix? It’s actually quite easy, simply do:</p> <pre><code class="shell language-shell">sudo xcode-select --switch /usr/bin</code></pre> <p> And voila! You can now install Node.js just fine. :)</p> ]]> 2012-08-25T14:43:00.000000Z Fred Wu ifredwu@gmail.com http://persumi.com/u/fredwu http://persumi.com/u/fredwu/tech/e/blog/p/brewing-node-js-on-os-x-without-xcode 2012-08-25T14:43:00.000000Z