Pod Update is removing "Target Support Files" but not updating my project settings

Question

Admittedly, it's been awhile since I've run a pod update on my project. Today I was trying to do just that, and am running into issues.

After running a 'pod update', the project will not compile. Here is what I've noticed. The update itself appears to run fine, just like normal. I did notice that all the files in 'Pods/Target Support Files` have been removed.

When I attempt to build, I get an error like this one for most of my pods:

lang: error: no such file or directory: '/Users/logan/development/ProjectNameRemoved/src/Pods/Target Support Files/Pods-AJNotificationView/Pods-AJNotificationView-dummy.m' 

clang: error: no input files

When I go to the Build Phases for the pods with this error, I can see that the dummy .m file is still in there, even though it doesn't exist:

Removing all of those doesn't seem to help, as then I start getting the following errors:

Digging down into the target's settings I can see the GCC prefix header is still set to use a nonexistent pch file:

I'm not really sure where to go from here. It seems like pod update is removing certain files, but my pbxproj is not being updated to correlate these changes. Do I need to figure out how to do this manually?

I'm currently running XCode7 and CocoaPods 0.38.2

Answer 1

I encountered this problem when I was refactoring a project. After removing a CocoaPod, I had remnants of it that were referenced. Cleaning caches and rebuilding did not resolve the issue.

I was able to resolve it using cocoapods-deintegrate referenced in the user's comment above.

Steps to resolve:

1. Close the project in Xcode so you don't have Xcode throwing warnings at you about differences between versions (assuming you're using version control, which is a good idea if you're messing with CocoaPods).

2. Install cocoapods-deintegrate by typing in Terminal:

   gem install cocoapods-deintegrate

3. Type pod deintegrate from the directory of your project.

4. Open the project in Xcode, clean caches and rebuild. Your Podfile should still be there...leave it alone. We'll get to that in a moment.

5. Close the project.

6. Type pod install

7. Open the project, clean caches and rebuild.

These are the steps I followed to resolve this issue.

Update:

I also used this methodology to resolve a linker error which cropped up when I deleted a reference to a class file instead of the file itself. Upon doing that, I got this error:

error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Answer 2

You can try

pod deintegrate pod install 

*You should be located at Podfile directory