Error in Terminal while trying to generate Localizable.strings file

iOS Programming (7th Edition) 7. Internationalization and Localization
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I followed the instructions, but my Terminal gave me this error:

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

Why does this occur? And what’s the fix?

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It appears Xcode hasn’t installed its commandline tools yet. Usually this happens during first run.

You can kick it off manually by executing this in Terminal:

 xcode-select --install

Note that there are two dashes in that instruction.

Then follow the installer prompts when they appear.

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I installed the Command Line Tools, but still got the same error.

Update: I just created Localizable.strings manually to continue with the chapter.

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