Cocoapods ld: library not found for -lPods-Projectname

Question

I\'ve installed cocoa pods library and some frameworks through it. Now when I compile project the build fails.

Error: ld: library not found for -lPods-Project clang:

Answer 1

Ensure that Build Active Architectures Only settings for both of your project and the Pods project were equal for debug and release configuration! That's was a problem in my case.

Answer 2

In my case I found that a mis-match of deployment target of the Project (iOS 11.4) versus the Target (iOS 10.3). Updating the target to iOS 11.4 fixed the issue.

Project > Info > Deployment Target > iOS Deployment Target
Project > Target > General > Deployment Target > Target

Podfile: platform :ios, '11.4'

Answer 3

I realized the xcproject file was opened instead of the updated workspace. This fixed my error. Hope this information will help others too.

Answer 4

If none of the other answers help you, try this:

• Deintegrate cocoa pods using pod deintegrate. Check this link https://github.com/kylef/cocoapods-deintegrate.
• Search on the build settings for target and project file for "pod". Anything that looks like it belonged to cocoa pods, remove.
• Finally, run pod install once again.