Building Qt Creator on macOS

[jnkbd]

Hi all,

I'm having problems building qt creator on macOS (mojave). Here's the error.

xcode-select: error: tool 'actool' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance
make[2]: *** [/Users/jnkbd/devel/personal/build/src/app/asset_catalog_compiler.Info.plist] Error 1
make[1]: *** [sub-app-make_first-ordered] Error 2
make: *** [sub-src-make_first-ordered] Error 2

...and the full make output.

https://pastebin.com/PNUqi0Bj

[SGaist]

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Might be a silly question but do you have Xcode installed ?
If so, which version ?

[Serjth]

I have similiar issue and solve it with command: sudo xcode-select --reset

[Stokestack]

This is still happening.

Just pulled and built Qt 5.15.0, then Qt Creator.

make -j just failed with the error message reported here.

I have Xcode 11.5 installed and working fine. I did xcode-select --reset as suggested above, but this induced a different error:

/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/clang++ -stdlib=libc++ -Wl,-rpath,@loader_path/../Frameworks,-rpath,@loader_path/../PlugIns -headerpad_max_install_names -arch x86_64 -isysroot /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk -mmacosx-version-min=10.13 -Wl,-rpath,@executable_path/../Frameworks -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/Qt-5.15.0/lib -o ../../bin/Qt\ Creator.app/Contents/MacOS/Qt\ Creator .obj/debug-shared/qtsingleapplication.o .obj/debug-shared/qtlocalpeer.o .obj/debug-shared/qtlockedfile.o .obj/debug-shared/qtlockedfile_unix.o .obj/debug-shared/main.o .obj/debug-shared/crashhandlersetup.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_qtsingleapplication.o .obj/debug-shared/moc_qtlocalpeer.o -F/usr/local/Qt-5.15.0/lib -L/Users/gavin/data/qt-creator-build/bin/Qt\ Creator.app/Contents/Frameworks -lExtensionSystem_debug -lAggregation_debug -lUtils_debug -framework CoreFoundation -framework QtWidgets -framework QtGui -framework AppKit -framework Metal -framework QtConcurrent -framework QtNetwork -framework QtCore -frameworkmake[2]: write error
make[1]: *** [sub-app-make_first-ordered] Error 1
make: *** [sub-src-make_first-ordered] Error 2

Not sure what it's complaining about here, but doing sudo make worked.

[mrjj]

@Stokestack said in Building Qt Creator on macOS:

write error

Hi
if it then worked with sudo , it just means that your current user didn't have write access to where it wanted to write.

[Stokestack]

@mrjj Indeed, thanks. But given that I was building to the default location, it seems that the documentation should make mention of the likely failure and potentially say to use sudo.