xcodebuild error: "requested but didn't find extension point with identifier ..."

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I'm using Xcode 13.3.1.

I'm trying to build a flutter application in Android Studio. It failed with the following error. To make it dead simple I tried just running xcodebuild which produced the same error as in Android Studio:

 .oh-my-zsh git:(master) xcodebuild
2022-04-21 19:45:25.858 xcodebuild[32450:312401] Requested but did not find extension point with identifier Xcode.IDEKit.ExtensionSentinelHostApplications for extension Xcode.DebuggerFoundation.AppExtensionHosts.watchOS of plug-in com.apple.dt.IDEWatchSupportCore
2022-04-21 19:45:25.859 xcodebuild[32450:312401] Requested but did not find extension point with identifier Xcode.IDEKit.ExtensionPointIdentifierToBundleIdentifier for extension Xcode.DebuggerFoundation.AppExtensionToBundleIdentifierMap.watchOS of plug-in com.apple.dt.IDEWatchSupportCore
Command line invocation:
    /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild

User defaults from command line:
    IDEPackageSupportUseBuiltinSCM = YES

xcodebuild: error: The directory /Users/salahuddin/.oh-my-zsh does not contain an Xcode project.

Any idea what causes this error and how to fix it?

flutter xcode ios
8 Answers

Please refer to the message, you can find out solution. https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/703233

SOLUTION (for me):

I had to first find the software update manually:

softwareupdate --list

This provided me with the following output:

Finding available software Software Update found the following new or updated software:

  • Label: Command Line Tools for Xcode-13.3 Title: Command Line Tools for Xcode, Version: 13.3, Size: 718145KiB, Recommended: YES, I then ran:

softwareupdate -i "Command Line Tools for Xcode-13.3"

(NOTE: You pass the "Label:" output as the string as yours could be different.

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user_33093810

I faced the same problem when updating the project with Flutter 3. After several attempts, the below solution worked for me.

I have deleted the podfile.lock file inside the ios folder and then run the below commands.

  1. flutter pub upgrade
  2. flutter pub get
  3. cd ios
  4. pod repo update > Actually, this was an error for me but ignored it
  5. pod install

Also please make sure you are using the latest MacOS and Xcode. I hope this will help someone else.

user_18974660

Looks like you need to install the Xcode command line tools, which you can do by executing the following command in Terminal: xcode-select --install

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user_137761820

The error mentions that there's no iOS project to be found on the directory.

xcodebuild: error: The directory /Users/salahuddin/.oh-my-zsh does not contain an Xcode project.

You'd need to navigate to the iOS build of your Flutter project on your terminal with cd ios and run xcodebuild there.

user_24978590

multiple xcode.app you need to remove.(Download folder)

  1. XCode-> Preferences-> Locations -> Command Line Tools
  2. Check it shows multiple entries for same xcode version.
  3. Delete xCode.app other than Application folder.
  4. quit and restart xcode and terminal.
user_18023480

My issue was that I was using Xcode 13.4. I downloaded Xcode 13.3 from here and everything started working again.

I was encountering this issue on a self-hosted GitHub runner so in order for the fix above to work, I needed to:

  1. Uninstall the Xcode 13.4
  2. Remove the GitHub runner
  3. Install Xcode 13.3
  4. Re-add the GitHub runner
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