Apple Mach-O Linker Warning Directory not found

Question

I have spent my last five hours looking for this weird situation a reasonable explanation.

Here is the warning:

ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L/Users/oasis_weng/Desktop/My Life/Life For Myself/Programming/Projects/ChangWeiBo/../xCodeExamples/ShareSDK/ShareSDK_v2.1.0/Extend/SDKExport' ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/oasis_weng/Desktop/My Life/Life For Myself/Programming/Projects/ChangWeiBo/../xCodeExamples/ShareSDK/ShareSDK_v2.1.0/Connection' ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/oasis_weng/Desktop/My Life/Life For Myself/Programming/Projects/ChangWeiBo/../xCodeExamples/ShareSDK/ShareSDK_v2.1.0/Core' ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/oasis_weng/Desktop/My Life/Life For Myself/Programming/Projects/ChangWeiBo/../xCodeExamples/ShareSDK/ShareSDK_v2.1.0/Extend' ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/oasis_weng/Desktop/My Life/Life For Myself/Programming/Projects/ChangWeiBo/../xCodeExamples/ShareSDK/ShareSDK_v2.1.0' ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/oasis_weng/Desktop/My Life/Life For Myself/Programming/Projects/ChangWeiBo/../xCodeExamples/ShareSDK/ShareSDK_v2.1.0/UI' 

However though, I know all those alleged "missing files" are truly and actually existed in my application folder and the app runs properly with these files.

The problem of those directories in the warning is the actual path do not include the ../xCodeExamples/ part.

What should I do to get these warning away?

Answer 1

You have to follow these step:

• Click on your project (targets)
• Click on Build Settings
• Under "Library Search Paths", delete the paths
• Clean your build and run again.

Good Luck !!

Answer 2

For me, the bad path was under Framework Search Paths.

The easiest way to find where the bad path is, is to type a part of it in the search box on the top right. That will filter the list to only that one bad path. Deleting it, as the other answer suggests, fixes the problem.

See this answer for more info.