Google-API for Objective-C: no such file or directory - libGTLTouchStaticLib.a

Question

I tried to include the Google-Api in my iOS-App. Wanted to include Google Drive.

So I followed everything on https://developers.google.com/drive/ios/quickstart .

After many hours of try-and-error it's not working at all.

It starts that the whole thing doesn't seem to be 64bit-capable and XCode will complain ...didn't contain all required architectures...". After fiddling around with different build settings I got that out of my way.

Than the howto advices only to copy two files (GTLDrive.h and GTLDrive_Sources.m) into your project. This results in the complaint GTLDriveConstants.h would be missing. In the end you have to copy the whole Drive/Generated folder into your project. After that it still complained GTLQuery.h would be missing, so I imported all the header-files (yes, I set the "User Header Search Paths" to the source-folder of the Google-API, doesn't help).

Next build will produce a lot of "duplicate symbol"s. After a lot of searching and finding out I had to clean up the "Compile Sources" in "Build Phases". Now that problem was solved, but now I'm stuck.

Now it complains:

clang: error: no such file or directory: '/Users/#myself#/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/#my-project#-finogpkkwtusudgbuiiodrxfuxwm/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/libGTLTouchStaticLib.a'

I got libGTLTouchStaticLib.a added to the application project's Build Phases "Link Binary with Libraries" list like adviced in the howto.

I got no more ideas. Anybody?

BTW: What a pain-in-the-ass! Dropbox-integration was so easy; import the framework - go! Dropbox 1, Google -1.000.000

Answer 1

Yes i feel your pain :D . GD is a pain to integrate. I had faced the same problem this is how i solved it.

Before the below steps make sure you build the GTL.xcodeproject that you have added to your xcode project. once or you wont fine the library

Go To Xcode> File Menu > Project Setting

Click on the arrow near Derived Data

In the derived data folder search for the GTL project

then go to Build->Products->Debug-iphonesimulator or -iphoneos

you will find libGTLTouchStaticLib.a

Use this in your project!

Phew !!! Let me know if this works for you.

Answer 2

I faced the same problem when I tried to build for devices. Here is how I fixed it.

Click on the GTL.xcodeproject and go to build settings. Check if the Architectures is set to "Standard architectures (armv7, armv7S, arm64)".

Hope this helped.