xcode-select -switch doesn't work: active developer path does not exist

Question

I have installed Xcode 5 developer preview 3. Before it i had developer preview 2 and now, sometimes in my terminal I see error, for example when I try to autocomplete some comm

Answer 1

It happened to me once: xcode-select -print-path did stick to the same value and wasn't changing. It appeared that it was always equal to DEVELOPER_DIR environment variable. According to the manpage of xcode-select:

When DEVELOPER_DIR is set, its value will be used instead of the value last passed to -switch xcode_path

So, unsetting DEVELOPER_DIR makes xcode-select -switch working.

Answer 2

If you do a:

man xcode-select

It tells you to set the path with:

xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode-DP4.app

As I've just switched to DP4 to test. That worked for me. I didn't see it point to any of the .app contents. I guess this was probably changed from previous versions...

Answer 3

Try changing the path in xcode itself.

Answer 4

I've got this error after I change the name of Xcode app. I changed Xcode app to Xcode8.1.app. Then I run command

sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode8.1.app/Contents/Developer

and now everything work as beginning.

Not sure are you in my case and your problem is solved or not. Maybe help another one.

Answer 5

Sometimes, space characters don't allow to take path correctly. So you may prefer to use \ character to include space into the path like below;

$ sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode\ 10.2.app/Contents/Developer

Answer 6

If you are running beta release. Path should be look like this.

sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer