Capacitor: `ionic capacitor add ios` command fails with "Unable to find a specification for `GCDWebServer (~> 3.0)` depended upon by `Capacitor`"

Created on 13 Aug 2018 · 7Comments · Source: ionic-team/capacitor

Versions:

$ ionic --version                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
4.0.6

$ ng --version
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    / \   _ __   __ _ _   _| | __ _ _ __     / ___| |   |_ _|
   / △ \ | '_ \ / _` | | | | |/ _` | '__|   | |   | |    | |
  / ___ \| | | | (_| | |_| | | (_| | |      | |___| |___ | |
 /_/   \_\_| |_|\__, |\__,_|_|\__,_|_|       \____|_____|___|
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Angular CLI: 6.1.3
Node: 9.10.0
OS: darwin x64
Angular: 6.1.2
... common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms, http
... language-service, platform-browser, platform-browser-dynamic
... router

Package                           Version
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@angular-devkit/architect         0.7.3
@angular-devkit/build-angular     0.7.3
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer   0.7.3
@angular-devkit/build-webpack     0.7.3
@angular-devkit/core              0.7.3
@angular-devkit/schematics        0.7.3
@angular/cli                      6.1.3
@ngtools/webpack                  6.1.3
@schematics/angular               0.7.3
@schematics/update                0.7.3
rxjs                              6.2.2
typescript                        2.7.2
webpack                           4.9.2



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$ ruby --version
ruby 2.5.1p57 (2018-03-29 revision 63029) [x86_64-darwin17]



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$ ionic capacitor add ios --verbose
  ionic:cli-utils Terminal info: { tty: true, ci: false } +0ms
  ionic:cli-utils CLI global options: { _: [ 'capacitor', 'add', 'ios' ], help: null, h: null, verbose: true, quiet: null, interactive: true, color: true, confirm: null, json: null, project: null, '--': [] } +3ms
  ionic:cli-utils:lib:project Project type from config: ionic/angular 4 (angular) +0ms
  ionic:cli-utils Project name: undefined +129ms
  ionic:cli Context: { binPath: '/Users/some-user/.nvm/versions/node/v9.10.0/lib/node_modules/ionic/bin/ionic', libPath: '/Users/some-user/.nvm/versions/node/v9.10.0/lib/node_modules/ionic', execPath: '/Users/some-user/git/Mercer/hive/mmds-ionic', version: '4.0.6' } +0ms
> capacitor add ios
✔ Installing iOS dependencies in 10.81s
✔ Adding native xcode project in: /Users/some-user/git/Mercer/hive/mmds-ionic/ios in 72.07ms
✔ add in 10.88s
✔ Copying web assets from www to ios/App/public in 388.02ms
✔ Copying native bridge in 50.04ms
✔ Copying capacitor.config.json in 2.58ms
✔ copy in 463.10ms
✔ Updating iOS plugins in 2.20ms
  Found 0 Capacitor plugins for ios:
✖ Updating iOS native dependencies:
✖ update ios:
[error] Analyzing dependencies
Fetching podspec for `Capacitor` from `../../node_modules/@capacitor/ios`
Fetching podspec for `CapacitorCordova` from `../../node_modules/@capacitor/ios`
[!] Unable to find a specification for `GCDWebServer (~> 3.0)` depended upon by `Capacitor`

[ERROR] An error occurred while running subprocess capacitor.

        capacitor add ios exited with exit code 1.

        Re-running this command with the --verbose flag may provide more information.
  ionic:cli-framework:utils:process onBeforeExit handler: process.exit received +0ms
  ionic:cli-framework:utils:process onBeforeExit handler: running 1 queued functions +0ms
  ionic:cli-framework:utils:process onBeforeExit handler: exiting (exit code 1) +113ms

Source

admosity

Most helpful comment

Follow the instructions to install cocoapods here https://cocoapods.org/

sudo gem install cocoapods

admosity on 2 Jan 2019

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All 7 comments

Did you have CocoaPods installed before?

Can you run pod repo update and try to run the command again?

jcesarmobile on 13 Aug 2018

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Yep first time install of CocoaPods. And... that fixed it.

Thanks for the quick response!

admosity on 13 Aug 2018

I was in fact thinking you had an old install and you need that command to refresh pods, but if it's a new install it should have latest pods already.

But I'm glad it also fixed your problem.

jcesarmobile on 13 Aug 2018

Pretty much fresh install after failing the command the first time.

admosity on 13 Aug 2018

Hi admosity , have you fixed the issue, I have got it too, someone told me to install the command line tools of xcode but after I installed it , doest work