Cocoapods: Remove a pod causes Linker Error

[wolffan]

Removing Lookback pod caused this:

ld: framework not found LookBack
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong or there is something wrong with the pod.

[orta]

did you do a pod install after?

[wolffan]

I did

[wolffan]

The same happens if I remove reveal and do a pod install (with the reveal linker).
Dunno what I might be doing wrong

[JRG-Developer]

Did you add or remove a target? I.e.

Went from

target "Your_Target" do
    # pod ... add some pods
end

to simply

# pod ... add some pods

Or vice versa? Think I may be seeing a bug here... looking to see if dup...

[wolffan]

Hello @JRG-Developer ,
no, just removed the lines in podfile.

The linker flags remain there (I remove them manually)

[newmanw]

where are those flags in Xcode so I can manually remove them. I am having the same problem. no changes other than I removed a dependency. After a pod install things were messed up.

[newmanw]

This has really screwed my project and I have no idea how to fix it. Bringing up another point can I 'reset' all the stuff pods did. I.E. start over without having to create a new project? I have removed Pods dir and xcworkspace and Podfile.lock but that did not help. I cannot even get back to regular xcode, when I do that its look for Pod specific stuff.

[wolffan]

@newmanw you have to remove the linkers.
This means that in "Other Linker Flags" in you target "Build Settings", will have a list of linkers related to your pods.

Search for the pods that you want to delete and for each one you have to delete 2 things. First the linker with the pod name, and after, the "-framework" linker just below it.
So 2 linkers for each pod.

That fixed things for me

[kylef]

I've came across this before myself. Temporary fix: rm -fr Pods && pod install.

[CocoaPodsBot]

@confidenceJuice closed with reason "original problem is not reproduceable as of at least 0.30. a new issue raised in the comments (https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/1823#issuecomment-35434174) has been created see #1954"

[jlubeck]

This just happened to me as well with cocoapods 1.1.1.
I had to manually remove the linker flags from my target.
I just removed the line from the Pod file and did pod install. Nothing more, nothing less.

[Rnorback]

This is happening to me wiht cocoapods 1.2.0 and I'm not finding any way out.

ld: framework not found LookBack
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

I've tried manually removing the flags from my pod file and doing pod install but it's not working

[ElyDantas]

To make sure which pod is giving you trouble you need to:

1. Right click the message"Linker command failed with exit code 1"
2. Choose the option "Reveal in Log" ,
3. A mensage in the right window will appear showing the framework causing you trouble
4. Delete -framework and FrameworkName in "Other Linker Flags" from your project target's "Build Settings"

[alper]

Just got bit by this after removing PaymillSDK. Cocoapods does not seem to update the "Other Linker Flags" setting?

[amberkatyal]

@newmanw you have to remove the linkers.
This means that in "Other Linker Flags" in you target "Build Settings", will have a list of linkers related to your pods.

Search for the pods that you want to delete and for each one you have to delete 2 things. First the linker with the pod name, and after, the "-framework" linker just below it.
So 2 linkers for each pod.

That fixed things for me

i would consider not doing this operation by cocoapods is there fault only. I tried all the answers everywhere on stackoverflow. This only solved my case.. :)
Thanks!!