Pods was rejected as an implicit dependency for 'libPods.a' because its architectures 'XXX' didn't contain all required architectures

Question

A friend updated Cocoapods in our project. When I pulled the latest stuff from git I got the following error:

Pods was rejected as an implicit dependency for 'libPods.a' because its architectures 'x86_64' didn't contain all required architectures 'i386'

This results in

ld: library not found for -lPods-___PODLIBRARY____
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

I have searched around for hours now trying to find it. The most common fixes I've tried are..

Deleted derived data
Delete build data
Delete pods, and reinstalled with 'pod install'
Clean project
All of the above at the same time
Experimented with 'Build Active Architecture Only', both in our project and in Pod Project. Inserted armv7 and armv7s as hard code instead of $ variable
Experimented with 'Architectures', both in our project and in Pod Project. Inserted armv7 and armv7s as hard code instead of $ variable

We are aiming for iOS 8, iPhones.

My friend got it to work by combining the first 4 options, but I cannot.

Does anyone have any suggestions? We're supposed to release before christmas so production time is precious :D

Similar question and solution: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44559621/project-pods-was-rejected-as-an-implicit-dependency-for-pods-framework-becau — Arshin, Apr 25 '18 at 14:45

score 125 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 17 '15 at 08:22

125

Try to set Build Active Architecture Only to NO for 'Pods' project and your app's target

edited Apr 17 '15 at 08:22

skywinder

answered Feb 09 '15 at 13:28

ananas

3

What fixed this problem for me was precisely the opposite: "Build Active Architecture Only" set to "YES" both in main target and Pods target + Debug and Release – Catarino Mar 25 '18 at 16:07

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 05 '16 at 15:00

4

For me, what worked was to change the CocoaPod project "Base SDK" to "Latest iOS".

answered Jan 05 '16 at 15:00

Luis Ferro

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 05 '15 at 16:22

1

Try to run the project first on an iPhone 4s in simulator and after that it should work.

answered Aug 05 '15 at 16:22

Ruud Visser

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 25 '18 at 16:04

1

What fixed this problem for me was precisely the opposite of the most voted answer:

"Build Active Architecture Only" set to "YES"

both in main target and Pods target + Debug and Release

answered Mar 25 '18 at 16:04

Catarino

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 25 '17 at 20:21

0

In my case, it was because I had the "Build Active Architecture Only" parameter set to Yes for Debug mode. Changing it no No fixed it.

answered Aug 25 '17 at 20:21

Andrew Smith

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 02 '19 at 12:36

Also make sure that your podfile targets the same iOS version your project targets:

For example, if you're targeting iOS 10.0 in your Xcode project your podfile should include platform :ios, '10.0' at the top, too.

Per this solution, which was the problem in my case.

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