installing "make" on Mac

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Baseem Najjar picture Baseem Najjar · Jul 15, 2012 · Viewed 44.6k times · Source

I'm trying to install Memcached on Mac using this tutorial: http://tugdualgrall.blogspot.de/2011/11/installing-memcached-on-mac-os-x-and.html but when I try ./configure it says: configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH when I try make it says: make sh: make: command not found sh-3.2# yum install make sh: yum: command not found sh-3.2# apt-get install make sh: apt-get: command not found

I must mention that I have Xcode but it's still not working. I'm really new on Mac so please take that into consideration :) I would really appreciate your help Thanks!

Answer

torrey.lyons picture torrey.lyons · Jul 15, 2012

If you have Xcode 4.3 or newer the command line tools, such as make, are not installed by default. In Xcode preferences go to the "Downloads" tab and under "Components" push the "Install" button next to "Command Line Tools". After you have successfully downloaded and installed the command line tools you should also type the following command in the Terminal to make sure all your Xcode command line tools are switched to use the 4.3 versions:

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

Once everything is successfully installed you should see make and other command line developer tools in /usr/bin.

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