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Support adding SDKs to PATH on macOS (command + as part of Flutter install) #4612
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Currently the work done for #4604 is Windows-only.
We need to evaluate options for adding to PATH on macOS. The original plan was to add symlinks to something like /usr/bin, however since the SDK is likely in a user-specific folder, this could do bad things for systems used by more than one user.
We should see if there's a reasonable way we could automate adding to shell profile scripts (is it save to always append? can we tell which profile script(s) are required?).
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Support adding newly-installed Flutter to PATH for macOS
[-]Support automatically adding to PATH on macOS[/-][+]Support adding SDKs to PATH on macOS (command + as part of Flutter install)[/+]DanTup commentedon Sep 18, 2025
@sethladd @anderdobo I've published a pre-release of the extension today that includes this work (as well as another bug I found while testing - #5709). To test it, ensure you're on the pre-release and that you have
v3.119.20250918(and have restarted the extensions after updating).Assuming it works as you'd like, let me know if the pre-release is good enough for your use, or if you think we should cherry-pick this into a stable release (I could do this tomorrow).
Note: This change was macOS-only, however it occurs to me that the changes as-is would probably work for Linux too (for those two shells that we support),. I've opened #5711 for this, which I'll just include in the next stable release unless it's important to you to also include now in a pre-release or a stable patch.
sethladd commentedon Sep 18, 2025
Thanks so much for the quick turnaround! I'll test now.
sethladd commentedon Sep 18, 2025
Seemed to work great, thank you!! Tested on a Mac with VS Code
And it put the following into my
~/.bash_profile:export PATH="/Users/sethladd/flutter/bin:$PATH"sethladd commentedon Sep 18, 2025
I personally would like a new stable release, as it simplifies things for us. However, I defer to you and Ander to assess the risk. If this is the only change , then I think the risk is low and you should make a new stable release.
sethladd commentedon Sep 18, 2025
Ack
Personally, we don't need #5711 to be included in a stable path release.
DanTup commentedon Sep 18, 2025
@sethladd thanks for testing! I'll push a stable build with this tomorrow (it will be just this and #5709 cherry-picked, both of which are low risk IMO).
sethladd commentedon Sep 18, 2025
Sounds awesome, thanks!
Support adding newly-installed Flutter to PATH for macOS
DanTup commentedon Sep 19, 2025
@sethladd this has been published in the stable v3.118.2 of the Dart extension, so the fix is now live to both stable and pre-release users. Users will need to let the extension update and then click the "Restart Extensions" button or restart VS Code after installing.
sethladd commentedon Sep 21, 2025
Thank you so much!