Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/DeveloperĬonfigured with: -prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr -with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1Īpple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.49) (based on LLVM 3.6.0svn)Īpple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.49) (based on LLVM 3.6. I'm answering against the more recent version (where the tools actually are in the Xcode.app pkg), but I'm pretty sure that if the path & output returned by xcode-select -p, gcc -v, and llvm-gcc -v/clang -v are harmonious then they should be the same, i.e. So when you know for sure the commandline tools are installed (because, for instance, xcode-select -install tells you so) but none of the other methods works, check softwareupdate -history!įor modern versions of xcode the command xcode-select -version will display the version number of command line tools, whether or not Xcode.app is installed.

Display Name Version DateĬommand Line Tools for Xcode 12.1, 22:38:33Ĭommand Line Tools for Xcode 12.3, 16:38:27 Which listed 12.3 as the last version it updated. How I finally found out what version of the XCode Commandline Tools is installed I stumbled upon the command: softwareupdate -history OBSERVATIONS I was not expecting the command to return an error: /usr/bin/xcodebuild -version (Reference) returns an error: xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active develo. However I knew that my version must be out of date as the installer for one of homebrew packages told me so! Softwareupdate -list told me everything was up to date. Xcode-select -version only gave me the version of xcode-select itself, with no clue as to the commandline tools version.

Not having XCode installed (and having no need for it), I could not look in settings dialogs of that either. pkgutil didn't give me the package of the XCode Commandline Tools, with none of the suggested package names. None of the available answers to get the version worked. I had XCode Commandline Tools installed for sure, but not XCode itself.

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