Manually Mount the Metal Toolchain When Xcode Cannot

My Xcode 26.2 still suffers from an inability to compile Metal shader files because it can’t find the Metal toolchain: error: cannot execute tool ‘metal’ due to missing Metal Toolchain; use: xcodebuild -downloadComponent MetalToolchain That command also doesn’t do anything to fix this for me. But I did have success mounting the .dmg file with the toolchain manually.

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