Flutterfire: 🐛 [firebase_messaging] iOS build error - fatal error: could not build module 'nanopb'

Created on 11 Oct 2020 · 28Comments · Source: FirebaseExtended/flutterfire

Bug report

Describe the bug
Using the latest firebase_messaging (7.0.3) in my Flutter project. On building:

Failed to build iOS app

Error output from Xcode build:
↳
* BUILD FAILED *

Xcode's output:
↳
While building module 'nanopb' imported from /Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/GoogleDataTransport/GoogleDataTransport/GDTCCTLibrary/Protogen/nanopb/cct.nanopb.h:22:
In file included from :1:
/Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/Target Support Files/nanopb/nanopb-umbrella.h:13:9: error: double-quoted include "pb.h" in framework header, expected angle-bracketed instead [-Werror,-Wquoted-include-in-framework-header]
#import "pb.h"
^~

/Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/Target Support Files/nanopb/nanopb-umbrella.h:14:9: error: double-quoted include "pb_common.h" in framework header, expected angle-bracketed instead [-Werror,-Wquoted-include-in-framework-header]
#import "pb_common.h"
^~~~~

While building module 'nanopb' imported from /Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/GoogleDataTransport/GoogleDataTransport/GDTCCTLibrary/Protogen/nanopb/cct.nanopb.h:22:
In file included from :1:
In file included from /Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/Target Support Files/nanopb/nanopb-umbrella.h:14:
/Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/nanopb/pb_common.h:8:10: error: double-quoted include "pb.h" in framework header, expected angle-bracketed instead [-Werror,-Wquoted-include-in-framework-header]
#include "pb.h"
^~

While building module 'nanopb' imported from /Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/GoogleDataTransport/GoogleDataTransport/GDTCCTLibrary/Protogen/nanopb/cct.nanopb.h:22:
In file included from :1:
/Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/Target Support Files/nanopb/nanopb-umbrella.h:15:9: error: double-quoted include "pb_decode.h" in framework header, expected angle-bracketed instead [-Werror,-Wquoted-include-in-framework-header]
#import "pb_decode.h"
^~~~~

While building module 'nanopb' imported from /Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/GoogleDataTransport/GoogleDataTransport/GDTCCTLibrary/Protogen/nanopb/cct.nanopb.h:22:
In file included from :1:
In file included from /Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/Target Support Files/nanopb/nanopb-umbrella.h:15:
/Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/nanopb/pb_decode.h:9:10: error: double-quoted include "pb.h" in framework header, expected angle-bracketed instead [-Werror,-Wquoted-include-in-framework-header]
#include "pb.h"
^~

While building module 'nanopb' imported from /Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/GoogleDataTransport/GoogleDataTransport/GDTCCTLibrary/Protogen/nanopb/cct.nanopb.h:22:
In file included from :1:
/Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/Target Support Files/nanopb/nanopb-umbrella.h:16:9: error: double-quoted include "pb_encode.h" in framework header, expected angle-bracketed instead [-Werror,-Wquoted-include-in-framework-header]
#import "pb_encode.h"
^~~~~

While building module 'nanopb' imported from /Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/GoogleDataTransport/GoogleDataTransport/GDTCCTLibrary/Protogen/nanopb/cct.nanopb.h:22:
In file included from :1:
In file included from /Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/Target Support Files/nanopb/nanopb-umbrella.h:16:
/Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/nanopb/pb_encode.h:9:10: error: double-quoted include "pb.h" in framework header, expected angle-bracketed instead [-Werror,-Wquoted-include-in-framework-header]
#include "pb.h"
^~

While building module 'nanopb' imported from /Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/GoogleDataTransport/GoogleDataTransport/GDTCCTLibrary/Protogen/nanopb/cct.nanopb.h:22:
In file included from :1:
/Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/Target Support Files/nanopb/nanopb-umbrella.h:17:9: error: double-quoted include "pb.h" in framework header, expected angle-bracketed instead [-Werror,-Wquoted-include-in-framework-header]
#import "pb.h"
^~

/Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/Target Support Files/nanopb/nanopb-umbrella.h:18:9: error: double-quoted include "pb_decode.h" in framework header, expected angle-bracketed instead [-Werror,-Wquoted-include-in-framework-header]
#import "pb_decode.h"
^~~~~

/Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/Target Support Files/nanopb/nanopb-umbrella.h:19:9: error: double-quoted include "pb_common.h" in framework header, expected angle-bracketed instead [-Werror,-Wquoted-include-in-framework-header]
#import "pb_common.h"
^~~~~

/Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/Target Support Files/nanopb/nanopb-umbrella.h:20:9: error: double-quoted include "pb.h" in framework header, expected angle-bracketed instead [-Werror,-Wquoted-include-in-framework-header]
#import "pb.h"
^~

/Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/Target Support Files/nanopb/nanopb-umbrella.h:21:9: error: double-quoted include "pb_encode.h" in framework header, expected angle-bracketed instead [-Werror,-Wquoted-include-in-framework-header]
#import "pb_encode.h"
^~~~~

/Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/Target Support Files/nanopb/nanopb-umbrella.h:22:9: error: double-quoted include "pb_common.h" in framework header, expected angle-bracketed instead [-Werror,-Wquoted-include-in-framework-header]
#import "pb_common.h"
^~~~~

13 errors generated.
In file included from /Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/GoogleDataTransport/GoogleDataTransport/GDTCCTLibrary/Protogen/nanopb/cct.nanopb.c:20:
/Users/sean/Projects/drag_test/ios/Pods/GoogleDataTransport/GoogleDataTransport/GDTCCTLibrary/Protogen/nanopb/cct.nanopb.h:22:10: fatal error: could not build module 'nanopb'
#include
~~~~^
14 errors generated.
note: Using new build system
note: Building targets in parallel
note: Planning build
note: Constructing build description

Could not build the application for the simulator.

Steps to reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Add firebase_messaging: 7.0.3 to pubspec.yaml
Add the following to the main.dart file prior to runApp:
await Firebase.initializeApp();
Build yields the above error

Upon inspecting the files mentioned in the error, many imports have been duplicated.

Additional context

Tried the following:

Clean Xcode derived data, flutter clean & remove pods & podfile.lock
Delete iOS folder entirely
Try earlier firebase_messaging versions such as 7.0.0.

Flutter doctor

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Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 1.22.1, on Mac OS X 10.15.7 19H2, locale en-GB)
[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 30.0.2)
[✓] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS (Xcode 12.0.1)
[✓] Android Studio (version 4.0)
[✓] IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (version 2020.2.3)
[✓] VS Code (version 1.50.0)
[✓] Connected device (1 available)

• No issues found!

Flutter dependencies

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Dart SDK 2.10.1
Flutter SDK 1.22.1
drag_test 1.0.0+1

dependencies:
- cupertino_icons 1.0.0
- firebase_messaging 7.0.3 [meta flutter firebase_core]
- flutter 0.0.0 [characters collection meta typed_data vector_math sky_engine]

dev dependencies:
- flutter_test 0.0.0 [flutter test_api path fake_async clock stack_trace vector_math async boolean_selector characters charcode collection matcher meta source_span stream_channel string_scanner term_glyph typed_data]

transitive dependencies:
- async 2.5.0-nullsafety.1 [collection]
- boolean_selector 2.1.0-nullsafety.1 [source_span string_scanner]
- characters 1.1.0-nullsafety.3
- charcode 1.2.0-nullsafety.1
- clock 1.1.0-nullsafety.1
- collection 1.15.0-nullsafety.3
- fake_async 1.2.0-nullsafety.1 [clock collection]
- firebase 7.3.0 [http http_parser js]
- firebase_core 0.5.0+1 [firebase_core_platform_interface flutter quiver meta firebase_core_web]
- firebase_core_platform_interface 2.0.0 [flutter meta plugin_platform_interface quiver]
- firebase_core_web 0.2.0 [firebase firebase_core_platform_interface flutter flutter_web_plugins meta js]
- flutter_web_plugins 0.0.0 [flutter characters collection meta typed_data vector_math]
- http 0.12.2 [http_parser path pedantic]
- http_parser 3.1.4 [charcode collection source_span string_scanner typed_data]
- js 0.6.2
- matcher 0.12.10-nullsafety.1 [stack_trace]
- meta 1.3.0-nullsafety.3
- path 1.8.0-nullsafety.1
- pedantic 1.9.2 [meta]
- plugin_platform_interface 1.0.3 [meta]
- quiver 2.1.3 [matcher meta]
- sky_engine 0.0.99
- source_span 1.8.0-nullsafety.2 [charcode collection path term_glyph]
- stack_trace 1.10.0-nullsafety.1 [path]
- stream_channel 2.1.0-nullsafety.1 [async]
- string_scanner 1.1.0-nullsafety.1 [charcode source_span]
- term_glyph 1.2.0-nullsafety.1
- test_api 0.2.19-nullsafety.2 [async boolean_selector collection meta path source_span stack_trace stream_channel string_scanner term_glyph matcher]
- typed_data 1.3.0-nullsafety.3 [collection]
- vector_math 2.1.0-nullsafety.3

crowd ios messaging bug

Source

seanmc86

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Most helpful comment

I update my cocoapods version to 1.10.0.rc.1 to solve this issue.

ZZBHuang on 12 Oct 2020

👍22 ❤6

All 28 comments

I also saw this in my ci jobs.

long1eu on 11 Oct 2020

👍1

I have the same problem

marcotammaro on 11 Oct 2020

Same problem

leonalonso on 11 Oct 2020

please help

nhat108 on 11 Oct 2020

help

ivanbandura on 12 Oct 2020

got same error, i tried deleting podfile then recreate, same output error

Dreako on 12 Oct 2020

Hello, same error here, podfile cleared, flutter clean... already tried

Octet83 on 12 Oct 2020

Same issue for both Firebase/Firestore and Firebase/Messaging from a clean install and after following to the 'T' the iOS app wizard from the Firebase console.

codjias on 12 Oct 2020

I update my cocoapods version to 1.10.0.rc.1 to solve this issue.

ZZBHuang on 12 Oct 2020

👍22 ❤6

I update my cocoapods version to 1.10.0.rc.1 to solve this issue.

It works, thanks.
(in order to install the 1.10.0.rc.1 version you can run: sudo gem install cocoapods --pre)

marcotammaro on 12 Oct 2020

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I update my cocoapods version to 1.10.0.rc.1 to solve this issue.

That does not help for me. :-( Still the same problem.

ChristianPauly on 12 Oct 2020

I update my cocoapods version to 1.10.0.rc.1 to solve this issue.

That does not help for me. :-( Still the same problem.

After running the update command I ran flutter clean as well and worked

Steps to go through:

sudo gem install cocoapods --pre
flutter clean
build/run project

LSambo02 on 12 Oct 2020

👍7 🎉3

I update my cocoapods version to 1.10.0.rc.1 to solve this issue.

That does not help for me. :-( Still the same problem.

After running the update command I ran flutter clean as well and worked

Steps to go through:
1. `sudo gem install cocoapods --pre`

2. `flutter clean`

3. build/run project

Still not working for me. :-( I can now build the app in xcode but when I try to run it with flutter drive it has the same errors.

ChristianPauly on 12 Oct 2020

It's not the same issue but the solution for this #3272 might help

LSambo02 on 12 Oct 2020

I update my cocoapods version to 1.10.0.rc.1 to solve this issue.

That does not help for me. :-( Still the same problem.

After running the update command I ran flutter clean as well and worked
Steps to go through:
1. `sudo gem install cocoapods --pre`

2. `flutter clean`

3. build/run project
Still not working for me. :-( I can now build the app in xcode but when I try to run it with flutter drive it has the same errors.

Also for me the same, I have one folder with integrated Firebase and the other without.
The one without works perfectly, the other with the integration always gives me error.
It is not possible to continue.

leonalonso on 12 Oct 2020

Hi this solution helped me.

I also found out that I was using Xcode's Legacy build system. Which I changed to the recommended one.
File -> Workspace Settings -> Build System -> New Build System (Default)

Hope this helps.

JtheSaw on 12 Oct 2020

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Closing as solutions provided

dackers86 on 12 Oct 2020

👎11 😕2

If running this in CI/CD pipeline, you might need to manually force the correct version of cocoapods. I'm using AppCenter and added the below code to the post-clone script (ios/appcenter-post-clone.sh).
I do this before installing flutter:

See below a sample ios/appcenter-post-clone.sh:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# fail if any command fails
set -e
# debug log
set -x

cd ..

# https://github.com/FirebaseExtended/flutterfire/issues/3840
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60749496/flutter-ios-build-on-the-app-center-fails-with-error-invalid-podfile-file-gen
# TODO: remove this once issue is fixed with cocoapods 
echo "Re-install coacoa pods with version 1.10.0.rc.1"
sudo gem uninstall cocoapods --all --executables
sudo gem install cocoapods --pre
echo "Done re-installing coacoa pods with version 1.10.0.rc.1"


# install flutter
git clone -b 1.22.1 https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
export PATH=`pwd`/flutter/bin:$PATH

flutter channel stable
flutter doctor

echo "Installed flutter to `pwd`/flutter"

flutter build ios --release --no-codesign

Hopefully, there will soon be a non-pre version for coacoapods that will solve this issue.

Inspired by below:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60749496/flutter-ios-build-on-the-app-center-fails-with-error-invalid-podfile-file-gen

I update my cocoapods version to 1.10.0.rc.1 to solve this issue.

KholofeloMoyaba on 15 Oct 2020

👍1

Closing as solutions provided

^ solutions provided but still outstanding issue.

can we reopen this? im still getting this error and currently using bitrise for my ci tool

julrach on 19 Oct 2020

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I have faced the same issue using fastlane. My script is doing a flutter clean before each build and it seems like flutter clean is resetting the value of Quoted Include In Framework Header to YES again. Also I think after each build the setting is also back at YES.

As I am building with fastlane locally on my machine I had the chance to set the value to NO manually before the build process which is obviously not the sense of CI but maybe a workaround until this is truly fixed.

Maybe you can include something in your script to overwrite the environment variable from CLANG_WARN_QUOTED_INCLUDE_IN_FRAMEWORK_HEADER = YES to CLANG_WARN_QUOTED_INCLUDE_IN_FRAMEWORK_HEADER = NO in the Pods project file. Make sure that it is the Pods project file and not the Runner project.

Hope this works for you.

JtheSaw on 20 Oct 2020

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I have faced the same issue using fastlane. My script is doing a flutter clean before each build and it seems like flutter clean is resetting the value of Quoted Include In Framework Header to YES again. Also I think after each build the setting is also back at YES.

As I am building with fastlane locally on my machine I had the chance to set the value to NO manually before the build process which is obviously not the sense of CI but maybe a workaround until this is truly fixed.

Maybe you can include something in your script to overwrite the environment variable from CLANG_WARN_QUOTED_INCLUDE_IN_FRAMEWORK_HEADER = YES to CLANG_WARN_QUOTED_INCLUDE_IN_FRAMEWORK_HEADER = NO in the Pods project file. Make sure that it is the Pods project file and not the Runner project.

Hope this works for you.

Amazing, this worked @JtheSaw. Now I guess we just wait for an actual stable fix but for now, this works! Cheers!

julrach on 20 Oct 2020

I have faced the same issue using fastlane. My script is doing a flutter clean before each build and it seems like flutter clean is resetting the value of Quoted Include In Framework Header to YES again. Also I think after each build the setting is also back at YES.

As I am building with fastlane locally on my machine I had the chance to set the value to NO manually before the build process which is obviously not the sense of CI but maybe a workaround until this is truly fixed.

Maybe you can include something in your script to overwrite the environment variable from CLANG_WARN_QUOTED_INCLUDE_IN_FRAMEWORK_HEADER = YES to CLANG_WARN_QUOTED_INCLUDE_IN_FRAMEWORK_HEADER = NO in the Pods project file. Make sure that it is the Pods project file and not the Runner project.

Hope this works for you.

Damn, thank you. Was trying to make it work for ages by deleting the workspace file, pod folder, etc and re-installing without luck.

Sockerjam on 20 Oct 2020

Closing as solutions provided

Can you reopen this @dackers86? Although there are workarounds, the real issue isn't stably resolved yet.

julrach on 20 Oct 2020

👍1

@julrach Have the same issue, can you please provide more info how did you fix that with the script? 🙏

stepanzalis on 20 Oct 2020

@julrach Have the same issue, can you please provide more info how did you fix that with the script? 🙏

@stepanzalis Here is what I added into my Podfile:

post_install do |installer|
  installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
    flutter_additional_ios_build_settings(target)
    target.build_configurations.each do |config|
      # workaround until the following issue is resolved: https://github.com/FirebaseExtended/flutterfire/issues/3840
      config.build_settings['CLANG_WARN_QUOTED_INCLUDE_IN_FRAMEWORK_HEADER'] = 'NO'
    end
  end
end

julrach on 20 Oct 2020

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I can confirm pod version 1.10.0.rc.1 has no issues on iOS 14

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TahaTesser on 21 Oct 2020

I have faced the same issue using fastlane. My script is doing a flutter clean before each build and it seems like flutter clean is resetting the value of Quoted Include In Framework Header to YES again. Also I think after each build the setting is also back at YES.

As I am building with fastlane locally on my machine I had the chance to set the value to NO manually before the build process which is obviously not the sense of CI but maybe a workaround until this is truly fixed.

Maybe you can include something in your script to overwrite the environment variable from CLANG_WARN_QUOTED_INCLUDE_IN_FRAMEWORK_HEADER = YES to CLANG_WARN_QUOTED_INCLUDE_IN_FRAMEWORK_HEADER = NO in the Pods project file. Make sure that it is the Pods project file and not the Runner project.

Hope this works for you.

littery dont understand what you are saying

bawantha on 2 Nov 2020

I update my cocoapods version to 1.10.0.rc.1 to solve this issue.

That does not help for me. :-( Still the same problem.

After running the update command I ran flutter clean as well and worked

Steps to go through:

sudo gem install cocoapods --pre

flutter clean

build/run project