Troubleshooting

Installation

Indicator: Installation fails with the following error: Error: EACCES: permission denied

Solution: Grant the user "admin" permissions to run the command for the installation process using the following command:

sudo npm install -g mbt --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

Building a Multitarget Application

Make cannot run on Mac OS

Indicator: The mbt build command fails on Mac and the build output contains the following error: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun

Solution: Install the Command-Line Tools: xcode-select --install The tools can also be downloaded from https://developer.apple.com/download/more/.

Make package collides with Make GNU

Indicator: The mbt build command fails with the following error: make ✖ err missing makefile / bakefile

Solution: Remove the global make package: npm uninstall -g make