Using CocoaPods stops iOS build using ionic Project

Question

I have created an ionic Project. I build the app and its working perfectly using Ionic CIL. Now using cocoapods, I created a pod file and loadded the required pods and did pod install.

Now when I try to run ionic run/build ios, I get this error: ld: library not found for -lPods clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Error code 65 for command: xcodebuild with args: -xcconfig

Command failed with exit code 2

Please help me ...

Answer 1

The issue that causes the build to fail is that once you start using CocoaPods you have to build the project .xcworkspace not the .xcodeproj.

I created a plugin that makes supporting CocoaPods simple by just adding a in your config.xml or plugin.xml. The plugin handles the creation of the Podfile and fixes the build scripts used by the ios platform.

Check it out https://github.com/blakgeek/cordova-plugin-cocoapod-support. to support fo swift also, Update to version 1.2.5 of the plugin and add the following to the ios platform section of your config.xml

<preference name="pods_ios_min_version" value="8.0"/>
<preference name="pods_use_frameworks" value="true"/>

Answer 2

You have to remove your iOS platform and then add the 5.0.0 version like this:

ionic cordova platform remove ios
ionic cordova platform add [email protected]

Hope that helps.