RestKit/RestKit.h file not found error - version 0.10.0

Question

I am losing my hair in my attempts to get RestKit to build and work. I get the dreaded \"Lexical or Preprocessor issue: RestKit/RestKit.h file not found\" message. I use Xc

Answer 1

I recently played around with upgrading from RestKit 0.9.3 to 0.10.0 and had the same thing. Did you delete the RestKit/build directory? This contains a copy of the .h files and is created as part of the build process when building 0.9.x. Doing Product -> Clean doesn't seem to delete these files. 0.10.0 doesn't seem to create this build directory. I suspect that your build errors are due to those files still being picked up.

Also, to answer your question fully, I keep RestKit files in:
(project dir)/Frameworks/RestKit
This is a git submodule so it contains a clone of the RestKit git repo at a particular revision.

And the header search path is:
$(BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR)/../../Headers

The header search path for 0.9.3 was:
$(SOURCE_ROOT)/RestKit/Build

I found this guide helpful (maybe this is what you are already following): https://github.com/RestKit/RestKit/wiki/Installing-RestKit-in-Xcode-4.x and note the section about only having libRestKit.a in the project for the latest RestKit versions where earlier versions had all of:

• libRestKitNetwork.a
• libRestKitObjectMapping.a
• libRestKitSupport.a
• libRestKitJSONParserJSONKit.a
• libRestKitXMLParserLibxml.a
• libRestKitCoreData.a

If you have all of these, delete them from your project.