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@realdennis
realdennis
opened on Jun 11, 2018
  • Node Version: node v10.4.0 npm 6.1.0
  • Platform: MacOS
  • Compiler: Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.10.25.5)
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Verbose output (from npm or node-gyp): 
> node-gyp rebuild

xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

Some strange behavior: When I use the npm script to run the node-gyp would rebuild failed, but ./node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js will run ok.

$ xcode-select -p
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

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  1. bnoordhuis commented on Jun 12, 2018

    @bnoordhuis
    bnoordhuis
    on Jun 12, 2018
    Member

    You can ignore that xcode-select error; if you upgrade node-gyp, you won't even see it. What's the actual build error?

  2. realdennis commented on Jun 12, 2018

    @realdennis
    realdennis
    on Jun 12, 2018
    Author

    xcode_emulation.py
    in XcodeVersion
    version = re.match(r'(\d\.\d\.?\d*)', version).groups()[0]
    AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'groups'

    Verbose output 
    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/dennis/.nvm/versions/node/v10.3.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py", line 16, in <module>
    sys.exit(gyp.script_main())
  File "/Users/dennis/.nvm/versions/node/v10.3.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/__init__.py", line 545, in script_main
    return main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/Users/dennis/.nvm/versions/node/v10.3.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/__init__.py", line 538, in main
    return gyp_main(args)
  File "/Users/dennis/.nvm/versions/node/v10.3.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/__init__.py", line 523, in gyp_main
    generator.GenerateOutput(flat_list, targets, data, params)
  File "/Users/dennis/.nvm/versions/node/v10.3.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/make.py", line 2170, in GenerateOutput
    part_of_all=qualified_target in needed_targets)
  File "/Users/dennis/.nvm/versions/node/v10.3.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/make.py", line 795, in Write
    self.Pchify))
  File "/Users/dennis/.nvm/versions/node/v10.3.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/generator/make.py", line 1190, in WriteSources
    cflags = self.xcode_settings.GetCflags(configname)
  File "/Users/dennis/.nvm/versions/node/v10.3.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 551, in GetCflags
    archs = self.GetActiveArchs(self.configname)
  File "/Users/dennis/.nvm/versions/node/v10.3.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 420, in GetActiveArchs
    xcode_archs_default = GetXcodeArchsDefault()
  File "/Users/dennis/.nvm/versions/node/v10.3.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 118, in GetXcodeArchsDefault
    xcode_version, _ = XcodeVersion()
  File "/Users/dennis/.nvm/versions/node/v10.3.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 1265, in XcodeVersion
    version = re.match(r'(\d\.\d\.?\d*)', version).groups()[0]
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'groups'

  3. richardlau commented on Jun 12, 2018

    @richardlau
    richardlau
    on Jun 12, 2018
    Member

    This is #1454 fixed by #1455.

  4. bnoordhuis commented on Jun 13, 2018

    @bnoordhuis
    bnoordhuis
    on Jun 13, 2018
    Member

    Yep, if you upgrade to 3.6.3 or 3.7.0 things should work. I'll go ahead and close this out but let me know if you still have issues after upgrading.

  5. bnoordhuis
    closed this as completedon Jun 13, 2018

  6. agm1984 commented on Oct 12, 2018

    @agm1984
    agm1984
    on Oct 12, 2018

    I just had this problem. After some diagnosis, I was able to just update the version for node-gyp inside the package-lock.json.

    I've never had to edit the file directly before, but mine was throwing the exact same error as the one posted here by realdennis.

    Mine was node-sassfailing and it was depending on node-gyp v3.3.

    Here is the code inside my package-lock.json for reference and context:

            "node-sass": {
            "version": "4.7.2",
            "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/node-sass/-/node-sass-4.7.2.tgz",
            "integrity": "sha512-CaV+wLqZ7//Jdom5aUFCpGNoECd7BbNhjuwdsX/LkXBrHl8eb1Wjw4HvWqcFvhr5KuNgAk8i/myf/MQ1YYeroA==",
            "dev": true,
            "requires": {
                "async-foreach": "^0.1.3",
                "chalk": "^1.1.1",
                "cross-spawn": "^3.0.0",
                "gaze": "^1.0.0",
                "get-stdin": "^4.0.1",
                "glob": "^7.0.3",
                "in-publish": "^2.0.0",
                "lodash.assign": "^4.2.0",
                "lodash.clonedeep": "^4.3.2",
                "lodash.mergewith": "^4.6.0",
                "meow": "^3.7.0",
                "mkdirp": "^0.5.1",
                "nan": "^2.3.2",
                "node-gyp": "^3.7.0",
                "npmlog": "^4.0.0",
                "request": "~2.79.0",
                "sass-graph": "^2.2.4",
                "stdout-stream": "^1.4.0",
                "true-case-path": "^1.0.2"
            },

    I simply changed it from 3.3 to 3.7 and my npm install was able to complete successfully.

  7. aguynamedben commented on Oct 30, 2018

    @aguynamedben
    aguynamedben
    on Oct 30, 2018

    I'm seeing this with:

    • node-gyp 3.8.0
    • Node 10.2.0

    I don't have XCode installed, but I do have the Command Line Tools installed. It seems like node-gyp is having an issue determining something about the XCode environment (xcode_emulation.py).

    I'm installing XCode and will try after that.

    Any ideas?

    binding.gyp: https://github.com/proxy/gist.github.com/aguynamedben/f46b059e5551afebd964da130614d78c

    Command that is failing:

    $ LDFLAGS='/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libcrypto.a' npm rebuild sqlite3 --build-from-source --sqlite_libname=sqlcipher --sqlite=`brew --prefix` --runtime=electron --target=3.0.6 --dist-url=https://atom.io/download/electron

    Error:

      File "/Users/ben/.nvm/versions/node/v10.2.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 551, in GetCflags
    archs = self.GetActiveArchs(self.configname)
  File "/Users/ben/.nvm/versions/node/v10.2.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 420, in GetActiveArchs
    xcode_archs_default = GetXcodeArchsDefault()
  File "/Users/ben/.nvm/versions/node/v10.2.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 118, in GetXcodeArchsDefault
    xcode_version, _ = XcodeVersion()
  File "/Users/ben/.nvm/versions/node/v10.2.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/xcode_emulation.py", line 1265, in XcodeVersion
    version = re.match(r'(\d\.\d\.?\d*)', version).groups()[0]
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'groups'
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/Users/ben/.nvm/versions/node/v10.2.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:336:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:237:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 17.7.0
gyp ERR! command "/Users/ben/.nvm/versions/node/v10.2.0/bin/node" "/Users/ben/.nvm/versions/node/v10.2.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "configure" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/Users/ben/code/tesla/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/electron-v3.0-darwin-x64/node_sqlite3.node" "--module_name=node_sqlite3" "--module_path=/Users/ben/code/tesla/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/electron-v3.0-darwin-x64" "--napi_version=3" "--node_abi_napi=napi" "--dist-url=https://atom.io/download/electron"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/ben/code/tesla/node_modules/sqlite3
gyp ERR! node -v v10.2.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.6.2
gyp ERR! not ok
node-pre-gyp ERR! build error
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/Users/ben/.nvm/versions/node/v10.2.0/bin/node /Users/ben/.nvm/versions/node/v10.2.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/Users/ben/code/tesla/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/electron-v3.0-darwin-x64/node_sqlite3.node --module_name=node_sqlite3 --module_path=/Users/ben/code/tesla/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/electron-v3.0-darwin-x64 --napi_version=3 --node_abi_napi=napi --dist-url=https://atom.io/download/electron' (1)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/Users/ben/code/tesla/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:961:16)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:248:5)
node-pre-gyp ERR! System Darwin 17.7.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/Users/ben/.nvm/versions/node/v10.2.0/bin/node" "/Users/ben/code/tesla/node_modules/sqlite3/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build"
node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /Users/ben/code/tesla/node_modules/sqlite3
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v10.2.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.10.3
node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok
Failed to execute '/Users/ben/.nvm/versions/node/v10.2.0/bin/node /Users/ben/.nvm/versions/node/v10.2.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --module=/Users/ben/code/tesla/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/electron-v3.0-darwin-x64/node_sqlite3.node --module_name=node_sqlite3 --module_path=/Users/ben/code/tesla/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/electron-v3.0-darwin-x64 --napi_version=3 --node_abi_napi=napi --dist-url=https://atom.io/download/electron' (1)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! sqlite3@4.0.2 install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the sqlite3@4.0.2 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/ben/.npm/_logs/2018-10-30T15_21_06_129Z-debug.log

    macOS version: High Sierra, 10.13.6

    $ node --version
v10.2.0

$ yarn list --pattern "node-gyp" --depth=0
yarn list v1.10.1
└─ node-gyp@3.8.0

$ yarn list --pattern "node-abi" --depth=0
yarn list v1.10.1
└─ node-abi@2.4.5

$ gcc --version
Configured with: --prefix=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.10.44.2)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin

  8. csergiu commented on Oct 31, 2018

    @csergiu
    csergiu
    on Oct 31, 2018

    @aguynamedben

    I'm having the same issue with macOS version: High Sierra, 10.13.6, Node v11.0.0 when running npm rebuild node-sass. Let me know if you've managed to fix it somehow.

  9. aguynamedben commented on Oct 31, 2018

    @aguynamedben
    aguynamedben
    on Oct 31, 2018

    @csergiu Can't figure it out. Have been trying various things for 1.5 days now.

    @richardlau @bnoordhuis Any ideas? Should this be reopened?

  10. aguynamedben commented on Oct 31, 2018

    @aguynamedben
    aguynamedben
    on Oct 31, 2018

    It looks like yesterday Apple released some updates to High Sierra and Command Line Tools... going to try them now and post back if it's still happening.

    image

    Yesterday I was also trying with only Command Line Tools installed, now I've installed full XCode, so that will also be impacting my 2nd attempt.

  11. richardlau commented on Oct 31, 2018

    @richardlau
    richardlau
    on Oct 31, 2018
    Member

    What is the output of xcodebuild -version?

  12. csergiu commented on Oct 31, 2018

    @csergiu
    csergiu
    on Oct 31, 2018

    @aguynamedben are you running it from an IDE terminal by any chance? it seems to work for me now if I run it from iTerm, not sure what bins RubyMine was using.

  13. spjsschl commented on Oct 31, 2018

    @spjsschl
    spjsschl
    on Oct 31, 2018

    What is the output of xcodebuild -version?
    For me it is:

    $ xcodebuild -version
xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

  14. spjsschl commented on Oct 31, 2018

    @spjsschl
    spjsschl
    on Oct 31, 2018

    Running sudo xcode-select --switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools fixed it for me

  15. richardlau commented on Nov 1, 2018

    @richardlau
    richardlau
    on Nov 1, 2018
    Member

    Maybe refack/GYP3#1 would address this, or at least provide a more meaningful error message.

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  17. AdamBD commented on Apr 21, 2019

    @AdamBD
    AdamBD
    on Apr 21, 2019

    This was the only way I was able to solve this. manually setting this in Xcode settings:

    Screen Shot 2019-04-21 at 5 21 39 PM

  18. eswardhinak commented on Jul 11, 2019

    @eswardhinak
    eswardhinak
    on Jul 11, 2019

    @alexanmtz that link solved it for me! Thanks :)

  19. Muzzera commented on Aug 20, 2019

    @Muzzera
    Muzzera
    on Aug 20, 2019

    changed my node-sass for the last version and Voi la

  20. w3debugger commented on Oct 30, 2019

    @w3debugger
    w3debugger
    on Oct 30, 2019

    I faced this when I updated my macOS to Catalina. It is fixed 🎉

    1. Installed xcode builds
    2. removed yarn.lock / package-lock.json files
    3. run yarn

  21. cclauss commented on Oct 30, 2019

    @cclauss
    cclauss
    on Oct 30, 2019
    Contributor

    For those upgrading to macOS Catalina, please checkout #1940

  22. breville
    added a commit that references this issue on Nov 3, 2019

    Upgrade node-sass

    2aa9b2f

  23. bvenkatr commented on Nov 14, 2019

    @bvenkatr
    bvenkatr
    on Nov 14, 2019

    Downgrading from Python3.xx to Python2.xx fixed the issue

  24. pedro-machado-tala commented on Dec 21, 2019

    @pedro-machado-tala
    pedro-machado-tala
    on Dec 21, 2019

    This works for me

    npm install -g n
    n 8.8.1

    sudo npm explore npm -g -- npm install node-gyp@latest

  25. bmfay commented on Apr 8, 2020

    @bmfay
    bmfay
    on Apr 8, 2020

    After trying most of the above, what ended up working for me was, believe it or not, simply updating node to the latest version.

    sudo npm cache clean -f
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n stable

    Depending on the dependencies of your particular project, you may not be able to use the latest stable version of node, but you can try upgrading to the latest version your project allows and see if it resolves the issue as it did for me.

  26. segabor commented on Apr 28, 2020

    @segabor
    segabor
    on Apr 28, 2020

    @bmfay your solution worked out. Saved my day, thanks!

  27. rahianeja commented on Dec 10, 2021

    @rahianeja
    rahianeja
    on Dec 10, 2021

    After trying most of the above, what ended up working for me was, believe it or not, simply updating node to the latest version.

    sudo npm cache clean -f
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n stable

    Depending on the dependencies of your particular project, you may not be able to use the latest stable version of node, but you can try upgrading to the latest version your project allows and see if it resolves the issue as it did for me.

    This worked for me

  28. mboutin-qohash commented on Feb 10, 2022

    @mboutin-qohash
    mboutin-qohash
    on Feb 10, 2022

    @Vipinunnikrishnan after 2h searching for answers, yours worked for me! Ty

  29. sameerasood commented on Apr 27, 2025

    @sameerasood
    sameerasood
    on Apr 27, 2025

    For anyone who stumbles here, faced a same issue after update mac OS to Sequio 15.4

    I delete and installed X code command line tools

    • sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
    • softwareupdate --install "Command Line Tools for Xcode-16.2" needed version 16.2
  30. cclauss
    added
    macOS
    gyp: No Xcode or CLT version detected!See: macOS_Catalina.md
    on Apr 27, 2025
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