apache/cordova-ios

Xcode build fails on M1 with "Library not found for -lPods-*"

doug-a-brunner opened this issue · 2 comments

doug-a-brunner commented

Bug Report

Problem

What is expected to happen?

After building the project using ionic cordova build ios --prod --release from CLI, I can open PROJECTNAME.xcodeproj and build/debug the app on a physical device.

What does actually happen?

The build fails in Xcode, with an error message "Library not found for -lPods-PROJECTNAME".

Information

The build process succeeds when using cordova-ios@6.3.0, but fails with 7.0.0. I noticed that when building with 7.0.0 [!] The Podfile does not contain any dependencies prints to the console when adding the platform and when building. This message does not appear when using 6.3.0. Interestingly, the actual content of platforms/ios/Podfile does not seem to differ between 6.3.0 and 7.0.0.

I tried re-installing Cocoapods several different ways, since from my searches this error message usually indicates a problem with the Cocoapods installation. These included:

  • sudo gem install cocoapods using system Ruby, with pinning of activesupport to an old version as needed
  • gem install cocoapods using current Ruby installed with Homebrew via rbenv
  • Same as two preceding but with arch --x86_64
  • brew install cocoapods

Command or Code

The problem occurs both with my own project and when using a standard Ionic tabs template project generated like so:

% ionic start fnord tabs --type=angular --cordova
% cd fnord
% ionic cordova platform add ios
% ionic cordova build ios

When I open fnord/platforms/ios/fnord.xcodeproj and select Product → Build, the error occurs.

Environment, Platform, Device

Mac Mini M1 (2020), Mac OS Ventura 13.0

Version information

Cordova CLI 12.0.0
cordova-ios 7.0.0
cordova-plugin-device 2.0.2
cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard 2.0.5
cordova-plugin-ionic-webview 5.0.0
cordova-plugin-splashscreen 5.0.2
cordova-plugin-statusbar 2.4.2

@ionic/angular 7.0.0
Ionic CLI 7.1.1

Mac OS Ventura 13.0
Xcode 14.3.1

Checklist

  • I searched for existing GitHub issues
  • I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
  • I included all the necessary information above
dpogue commented

Try opening the PROJECTNAME.xcworkspace file in Xcode, not the PROJECTNAME.xcodeproj file.

doug-a-brunner commented

Interesting, I'd tried doing that before but gave up because there were no destinations available in the scheme/destination select menu. However, when I tried again just now, it worked as expected. Experimenting a bit, it looks like it breaks if the .xcodeproj is open at the same time as the .xcworkspace.

I'm curious why I was able to build OK from the .xcodeproj with previous versions of cordova-ios, but in any case, that got me unstuck with 7.0.0; thanks very much!