Xcode 9 Bug: Cannot find cdtool
An Apple engineer reached out about this...
Those of you with cdtool errors in Xcode 8, I suspect you installed the iOS 10.3 Simulator runtime from Xcode 9. It was discovered this week that this causes a problem with cdtool in Xcode 8.3.
You can work around that by moving iOS 10.3.simruntime aside and restarting CoreSimulatorService (source):
sudo mkdir /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes/Backup
sudo mv /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes/{,Backup/}iOS\ 10.3.simruntime
sudo killall -9 com.apple.CoreSimulator.CoreSimulatorService
Then restart Xcode, Simulator, etc. Those of you that deleted CoreSimulator.framework and thus cannot run Xcode.app any more can reinstall CoreSimulator.framework with:
installer -pkg /Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Resources/Packages/XcodeSystemResources.pkg -target /
Didn't work for me because I also have a Watch app and got the error on the Watch SDK.
I ended up deleting both Xcode 8 and 9 Beta, deleting /Library/Developer
and ~/Library/Developer
. Then reinstalled Xcode 8 and it worked.