Using make on OS X

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I have a MacBook Pro that I m trying to do some development on   I have a program I want to build  and when I went to use make to build it  I got a  command not found  error  I did some googling and Stack nbsp Overflow searches and it doesn t look like this is a common problem  Why don t I have make installed and how do I get it   I m extra confused  because I know I used it relatively recently  in the past month or so  when I was on this laptop

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If you ve installed Xcode 4 3 and its Command Line Tools  just open Terminal and type the following  On Xcode 4 3  type the following in Terminal    export PATH  PATH  Applications Xcode app Contents Developer usr bin

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In addition  if you have migrated your user files and applications from one mac to another  you need to install Apple Developer Tools all over again  The migration assistant does not account for the developer tools installation

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Daniel s suggestion worked perfectly for me  To install make  open Xcode  go to Preferences -  Downloads -  Components -  Command Line Tools You can then test with gcc -v

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I found the Developer Tools not as readily available as others  In El Capitan  in terminal I just used gcc -v  it then said gcc wasn t available and asked if I wanted to install the command line Apple Developer Tools   No downloading of Xcode required   Terminal session below   Pauls-MBP   paulhillman  gcc -v xcode-select  note  no developer tools were found at   Applications Xcode app   requesting install  Choose an option in the dialog to download the command line developer tools  Pauls-MBP   paulhillman  gcc -v Configured with  --prefix  Library Developer CommandLineTools usr --with-gxx-include-dir  usr include c   4 2 1 Apple LLVM version 7 3 0  clang-703 0 31  Target  x86 64-apple-darwin15 6 0 Thread model  posix InstalledDir   Library Developer CommandLineTools usr bin

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You will have to install the  Developer Tools  that are provided as optional packages in OS X installation disks

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For Xcode 4 1 you can simply add  Developer usr bin to the PATH environment variable   This is easily done         export PATH  PATH  Developer usr bin   Also be certain to update your    bashrc  or    profile or    bash login  file

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For those of you who get to this page using Xcode 4 3 and Lion  the command line tools are no longer bundled by default  and there is no  Developer anymore  To install them  open Xcode  go to Preferences -  Downloads -  Components -  Command Line Tools  This should install make  gcc etc

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I agree with the other two answers  install the Apple Developer Tools   But it is also worth noting that OS X ships with ant and rake

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Have you installed the Apple developer tools   What happens if you type gcc -v    It look as if you do not have downloaded the development stuff  You can get it for free  after registration  from http   developer apple com

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I believe you can also get just the Xcode command-line tools which is about 170 MB   It s described in the  brew  setup guide  https   github com mxcl homebrew wiki installation and can be found here  https   developer apple com downloads index action   Edit  this was already mentioned above by  josh

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There is now another way to install the gcc toolchain on OS X through the osx-gcc-installer this includes    GCC LLVM Clang Developer CLI Tools  purge  make  etc  DevSDK  headers  etc    The download is 282MB vs 3GB for Xcode

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