xcrun

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XCRUN(1) BSD General Commands Manual XCRUN(1) NAME xcrun - Run or locate development tools and properties. SYNOPSIS xcrun [--sdk <SDK name>] --find <tool name> xcrun [--sdk <SDK name>] <tool name> ... tool arguments ... <tool name> ... tool arguments ... DESCRIPTION xcrun provides a means to locate or invoke developer tools from the command-line, without requiring users to modify Makefiles or otherwise take inconvenient measures to support multiple Xcode tool chains. The tool xcode-select(1) is used to set a system default for the active developer directory, and may be overridden by the DEVELOPER_DIR environment variable (see ENVIRONMENT). The SDK which will be searched defaults to the boot system OS SDK, and can be specified by the SDK-ROOT SDKROOT ROOT environment variable or the --sdk option (which takes precedences over SDKROOT). When used to invoke another tool (as opposed to simply finding it), xcrun will provide the absolute path to the selected SDK in the SDKROOT environment variable. See ENVIRONMENT for more information. Usage xcrun supports several different usages, to both look up the paths to tools as well as execute them. When used with the --find argument, as in xcrun [--sdk <SDK name>] --find <tool name>, the absolute path to the tool (in the provided SDK, if given) will be printed. When used without --find, the name of a tool is required and the tool will be executed with the pro-vided provided vided arguments. When used as the target of a symbolic link, it derives the tool name to use from the name it was invoked under, and then executes that tool. OPTIONS -v, --verbose Add verbose information on how the tool lookup is performed. -n, --no-cache Don‘t consult the cache when looking up values. In effect, causes the cache entry to be refreshed. -k, --kill-cache Removes the cache. Causes all values to be re-cached. --sdk Specifies which SDK to search for tools. If no --sdk argument is provided, then the SDK used will be taken from the SDKROOT environment variable, if present. --toolchain Specifies which toolchain to use to perform the lookup. If no option:--toolchain argument is provided, then the toolchain to use will be taken from the TOOLCHAINS environment variable, if present. -l, --log Print the full command line that is invoked. -f, --find Enable "find" mode, in which the resolved tool path is printed instead of the tool being exe-cuted. executed. cuted. -r, --run Enable "run" mode, in which the resolved tool path is executed with any provided additional arguments. This is the default mode. --show-sdk-path Print the path to the selected SDK. --show-sdk-version Print the version number of the selected SDK. --show-sdk-platform-path Print the path to the platform for the selected SDK. --show-sdk-platform-version Print the version number of the platform for the selected SDK. ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPER_DIR Overrides the active developer directory. When DEVELOPER_DIR is set, its value will be used instead of the system-wide active developer directory. SDKROOT Specifies the default SDK to be used when looking up tools (some tools may have SDK specific ver-sions). versions). sions). This environment variable is also set by xcrun to be the absolute path to the user provided SDK (either via SDKROOT or the --sdk option), when it is used to invoke a normal developer tool (build tools like xcodebuild or make are exempt from this behavior). For example, if xcrun is used to invoke clang via: xcrun --sdk macosx clang test.c then xcrun will provide the full path to the macosx SDK in the environment variable SDKROOT. That in turn will be used by clang(1) to automatically select that SDK when compiling the test.c file. TOOLCHAINS Specifies the default toolchain to be used when looking up tools (for tools which are toolchain specific). xcrun_log Same as specifying --log. xcrun_nocache Same as specifying --no-cache. xcrun_verbose Same as specifying --verbose. EXAMPLES xcrun --find clang Finds the path to the clang binary in the default SDK. xcrun --sdk iphoneos --find texturetool Finds the path to the texturetool binary in the ios SDK. xcrun --sdk macosx --show-sdk-path Prints the path to the current Mac OS X SDK. xcrun git status Locates the git command and then executes it with a single argument ("status"). DIAGNOSTICS When xcrun is invoked with the name xcrun, the options --log and --verbose are useful debugging aids. The option --no-cache can be used to bypass cache lookup, but often at a significant cost in perfor-mance. performance. mance. When xcrun has taken the place of another tool, the arguments are those of the tool replaced, and the various xcrun options can‘t be used. In this case, use the specific environment variables instead. SEE ALSO xcodebuild(1), xcode-select(1)

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