File not found- GoogleUtilities/Libraries/libGTM_NSData+zlib.a

Question

Getting file not found error for GoogleUtilities/Libraries/libGTM_NSData+zlib.a.

Below is some Google library related content in my Podfile

pod 'GoogleAnalytics', '~> 3.14.0'
pod 'Google/CloudMessaging', '~> 1.1.0'
pod 'Google/SignIn'
pod 'GoogleAds-IMA-iOS-SDK'

Answer 1

Just to update everyone on this, I followed these steps to fix this issue:

1. Deintegrate cocoapod
2. Clear all cache
3. Reinstall cocoapod

Below are some of the commands that will do the trick:

rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/CocoaPods
rm -rf Pods
rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/*
pod deintegrate
pod setup
pod install

Thanks

Answer 2

If you go to your target's Pod xcconfig, i.e Pods-Development.debug.xcconfig, near the end of the file there is the entry -force_load $(PODS_ROOT)/GoogleUtilities/Libraries/libGTM_NSData+zlib.a.

Getting rid of that fixes the build error. I've not come across any other issues with this as a fix yet. Not sure why this is being added in.