http://persumi.com/u/fredwu/tech/e/blog/t/osx-gcc-installer Persumi - Level up your writing and blogging with AI Blog Tech Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:46:51 +0000 Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:43:00 +0000 http://persumi.com/u/fredwu/tech/e/blog/p/brewing-node-js-on-os-x-without-xcode http://persumi.com/u/fredwu/tech/e/blog/p/brewing-node-js-on-os-x-without-xcode Blog Tech ifredwu@gmail.com (Fred Wu) <![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> ]]> http://persumi.com/u/fredwu/tech/e/blog/p/brewing-node-js-on-os-x-without-xcode