Please help with setup on Mac

You need to install XCode and its Command Line extension, for clang to be accessable to CLion

I installed xcode, which they say includes the command line extension.

when I try to build a simple file, I get this:

"/Applications/CLion EAP.app/Contents/bin/cmake/bin/cmake" --build /Users/Cary/Library/Caches/clion10/cmake/generated/ea7dfe3f/ea7dfe3f/Debug --target lion0 -- -j 8
CMakeFiles/lion0.dir/build.make:53: *** target pattern contains no `%'.  Stop.
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/lion0.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/lion0.dir/rule] Error 2
make: *** [lion0] Error 2

how do get this resolved? does xcode include a clang and gcc compiler? how do i link this to Clion? Thanks.

If you have installed Xcode with command line extensions, open 'Preferences' -> 'Build, Execution, Deployment' -> 'Toolchains' in CLion. You should see 'CMake', 'make', 'C Compiler', 'C++ Compiler' and 'GDB' ticked. Then you're all set.
GCC is not part of the Xcode suite (at least since 10.9).

Thanks Carsten. I checked my preferences and I have everything checked already. But I still can't build. Also I'd like to use Clang for compiler.

Please try creating a new project with CLion, does it work or still the same problem?
Also, please check this thread https://devnet.jetbrains.com/message/5534006#5534006, you may have a similar issue.

Hi Anton,

I tried a new project but it still doesn't work. My cmakelists.txt looks like this below. Also how can I configure so I don't have to edit the cmakelists.txt file for each new project? Many thanks.

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.4)
project(CLion)

set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -std=c++11")

set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER "users/cary/documents/build/debug+asserts/bin/clang")
set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER "users/cary/documents/build/debug+asserts/bin/clang++")

set(SOURCE_FILES main.cpp)
add_executable(CLion ${SOURCE_FILES})

If you have Xcode installed, then you can you Clang that is bundled with Xcode, so you don't need to override CMAKE_C(XX)_COMPILER variables: everything should work without them.

If you do need to use your own version of Clang, then perhaps the problem is that the paths to the compilers miss the root "/".

upd: Also, it is better to override these variables externally, rather than in CMakeLists.txt itself. In CLion this can be done by putting something like "-D CMAKE_C_COMPILER=/path" into CMake options, or provide CC and CXX environment variables.

Thanks guys, I set the environment variables but I'm still getting an error message. See attached. What am I missing?

1) You don't need to set any environment variables if you simply want to use /usr/bin/clang, becase CMake will find it by itself
2) If you want to override compiler via environment variables, you need to use CC and CXX variables, not CMAKE_C_COMPILER and CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER.

With no environment variables I still get an error message. I changed the environment variables to CC and CXX and I still can't build. I am a pycharm user, love your products so I will purchase CLion but this is harder to set up than eclipse!

If you don't have any errors displayed in the "Toolchains" preference pane, then you can just create a new project in CLion and everything should work out of the box.

I appreciate your help, but I am getting nowhere with this. I tried cmake options, I tried environment variables, and also cmakelists.txt, and none of those options worked. I have the latest version of Xcode with command line tools installed. My toolchains pane is all checked off (see pic), but for some reason I cannot build a hello world project.

I love your products (I have Pycharm) and I got Clang to work on eclipse, so I'm somewhat literate, is it possible there is a problem for mac users?

Do you have any 'fancy' characters in the project path (same issue as in https://devnet.jetbrains.com/message/5534006#5534006), like '+'? If you do, this may be a cause.
If not, please attach /'Users/Cary/Library/Caches/clion10/cmake/generated/ea7dfe3f/ea7dfe3f/Debug/CMakeFiles/lion0.dir/build.make' file - it looks like CMake generates a broken Makefile.

Thanks Anton! I had a project folder named C/C++ and the '/' was converted to a colon. I renamed the folder to just 'C++" and now all is well.