Cannot compile Cocoapods with XCode/Obj-C – "Pods-prefix.pch.dia: No such file or directory"

Question

I am using XCode 4.5.1 and iOS 6.0 base SDK.

Here is the error I am receiving:

i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2: /Users/fahim/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Currenthiphop-emodxxwwaiojlcboaxuodksuwuww/Build/Intermediates/PrecompiledHeaders/Pods-prefix-evibdktwbatdnbabmrlnderfsxxi/Pods-prefix.pch.dia: No such file or directory

There is only 1 file in the Pods-prefix-xxx directory: Pods-prefix.pch.pth.hash-criteria

Here is my Podfile: platform :ios

pod 'LibComponentLogging-Core'
pod 'LibComponentLogging-LogFile'
pod 'LibComponentLogging-qlog' 
pod 'LibComponentLogging-pods'

pod 'Facebook-iOS-SDK'
pod 'RestKit'

Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

Answer 1

I actually found this solution right here that details opening up Xcode using normal means (Finder or the Dock), as opposed to using the open <Workspace>.xcworkspace command. I've always used Xcode from my dock, whereas the other developer (who couldn't build the project and was getting the error you were) was using the open command from the command line. Once he opened Xcode from the Dock, and manually browsed to open the project that way, he could build it successfully.

Answer 2

If you are using CocoaPods 0.18.0, this might be cause by CocoaPods and is fixed in https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/956

Extra quote in "$(inherited)" was the cause (https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/blob/master/lib/cocoapods/generator/xcconfig.rb#L150). It should not be quoted. If you remove them from the xcconfig the project will build again. You may want to check your xcconfig and see if there are extra quote.