> On Aug 12, 2015, at 6:35 PM, Joar Wingfors <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 12 Aug 2015, at 15:39, Carl Hoefs <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >>> On Aug 12, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Jens Alfke <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Aug 12, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Hunter Hillegas <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I was having all sorts of problems so I went in and nuked all of the >>>> shared support stuff between Xcode versions (so it was like Xcode had >>>> never been run on that machine) and then ran Xcode 7 DP5 (which >>>> re-installed dependent stuff) and that seemed to make all of the weirdness >>>> go away for me. >>> >>> That sounds like what I should do. But what are all the directories you >>> nuked? There seem to be a lot of places where Xcode installs stuff. For >>> example, my crash when launching the simulator is when loading a dylib in >>> /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator. >>> >>> I don’t suppose there’s an “uninstall Xcode” script hiding somewhere ;-) >> >> Yeah, there *is* a trick to it. This is what I've used successfully: >> >> http://recomhub.com/blog/how-to-uninstall-xcode-on-mac-os-x/ >> <http://recomhub.com/blog/how-to-uninstall-xcode-on-mac-os-x/> > > This article contains some *really* bad advice. The script mentioned in that > article: > > /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools > > …comes from an install of Xcode prior to Xcode 4.3 (which was when Xcode was > re-packaged into a single app wrapper). > > Running that script will run the risk of removing things from the base > install of OS X that cannot (easily) be replaced. > > If you haven’t installed the separate CLTools package, there’s nothing to > uninstall outside of the Xcode.app bundle. If you have installed the CLTools > package, there’s no uninstaller provided by Apple to get rid of what was > installed and I cannot on the top of my head remember what gets installed > where. >
Indeed! I hadn't realized things had changed so much. Back in the day it was a handy tool was to wipe the Xcode slate clean and reinstall. Perhaps Apple could bring back such a tool. -Carl
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