iOS - Build fails with CocoaPods cannot find header files

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I have an iOS project using CocoaPods. Everything was working smoothly until another developer started to work on the same project. He made some changes (only to code as far as I know) and made a new branch in the repo. I have checked out his branch and tried to build it, but I am getting an error: ASLogger/ASLogger.h file not found.

Even if I delete the whole project and make a fresh copy and use 'pods install .' the build failure is still there. Do you have any idea where the problem can be? If you need some more infos, just ask.

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29 Answers

For me, what fixed it was the iOS deployment target for my Pods project was lower than my project itself. Once I made it the same as my project it was able to find the header file.

user_42708760

I've found that including the library as a pod install directly helps dynamic libraries. For example, for Firebase:

pod 'RNFirebase', :path => 'path/to/node_modules/react-native-firebase/ios'

Or for ASLogger:

pod 'ASLogger', :path => 'path/to/node_modules/aslogger/ios' // path to header files

Changing or hardcoding HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS did not help me. If the error ever recurs, it's not necessary to rm -rf node_modules nor delete the pod file etc, I found it useful to clear the cache.

For react-native, I run 

    rm -rf $TMPDIR/react-native-packager-cache-*
    rm -rf $TMPDIR/metro-bundler-cache-*
    rm -rf $TMPDIR/metro-* 
    rm -rf $TMPDIR/react-* 
    rm -rf $TMPDIR/haste-*
    rm -rf "$(getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)/org.llvm.clang/ModuleCache"
    npm start -- --reset-cache

For Xcode I remove folders in ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData

user_25531910

I think an ultimate solution is to go to Build settings -> Search Path -> User Header Search Paths, find your library path and go through it in a Finder. Make sure that all path exists including your import path.

For me my path was shorter than in a tutorial. In tutorial it was something like #import <SDK/path/to/sdk/File.h>, but turns out it is just #import <SDK/File.h>

user_39922370

If you're on Xcode 12 or above, make sure your Pods are being compiled for the correct architecture (Intel vs. ARM). Check to see if you have a VALID_ARCHS or EXCLUDED_ARCHS setting anywhere.

I had config.build_settings['EXCLUDED_ARCHS[sdk=iphonesimulator*]'] = 'arm64' in my Podfile, and that prevented the compiler from finding the Pod header files.

user_17894660

I have other worked solution here,

  1. Quit Xcode
  2. Open Xcode and clean project
  3. Build Pods project first
  4. Build Project
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