Frameworks are 'red' in Xcode

Question

I downloaded a project developed by Apple employees ( who taught course at Stanford on iPhone application development). Strangely , the frameworks are red.

http://img.skitch.com/20100730-kcjun96mp2pxnpg7w3x6njw57.jpg

I tried to locate coreGraphics.framework and UIKit.framework to add them again but i couldnt find them either.

Taimur

Mine does that too. Since everything continues to work just fine, I haven't bothered to try and trace down what was happening. — kubi, Jul 29 '10 at 17:04
@kubi well its kind of scary , isnt it , its in the back of ur mind that your project might crash and corrupt later. Wat do u say ? — Taimur Ajmal, Jul 29 '10 at 17:10
Re the bounty . . . the framework is a framework from a subproject, not a system framework . . . — William Jockusch, Apr 02 '17 at 22:24
Open your CocoaPods app or Terminal and reinstall Pods of your project. — Hamid Reza Ansari, Mar 01 '19 at 09:13

score 34 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 29 '10 at 17:27

The red text indicates that the actual files are not at the path that the project has for them.

Get info on the framework and look under the General tab. The first section shows the name and path of the framework bundle itself. The most common cause of a problem with system supplied frameworks is that the path type has been changed to something that breaks the path. The default setting is Relative to Current SDK. Change the path until you get one that leads to the actual framework.

If you have the developer tools installed in a custom location, you are more likely to run into this problem. If you copy a project from someone with non-standard settings, you can encounter it as well.

Hello. I found a similar issue in xcode 4.6.1 dont know what to do. Please help me. — Pratik Somaiya, Jun 17 '13 at 12:33

score 22 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 16 '15 at 21:40

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Are you building for a Simulator or for Device?

Try building for Device.

answered Jul 16 '15 at 21:40

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Worked for me. I was building for "iPhone 6s", once I switched to "Generic iOS Device" it fixed them. – jakecraige Jun 24 '16 at 20:13

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 13 '10 at 10:29

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Found a way to fix this automagically:

Right click your main Xcode project file (the blue one at the top ),
Get info,
'General' tab,
At the bottom, set 'Base SDK for All configurations' to your desired one.

Done!

answered Dec 13 '10 at 10:29

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I'm getting 67 errors if i do like this and all frameWorks are having lock symbols. Plz try to solve my issue.... – Loquatious Mar 09 '12 at 13:03
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There is no Get Info when you right click the Project icon in Xcode 4.5. – Snowcrash Nov 27 '12 at 16:12
@SnowCrash double click on the project instead – Edd Mar 13 '15 at 10:17
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@Edd I can't find 'Base SDK for All configurations' in this menu either. – stealthysnacks Aug 19 '16 at 15:27

score 5 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 14 '21 at 06:13

Steps to fix this issue in M1 Macs:

Install "sudo gem install cocoapods-deintegrate cocoapods-clean" to install deintegrate if not installed.
Run "pod deintegrate" in terminal in your project folder to uninstall all pods.
Run "pod cache clean —all"
Run "pod install"
Go to Project Explorer Select "Pods" in blue
Select the each pods in the target section
Search for "Excluded Architecture" in Build Settings Tab under "All" sub category.
Add "Any iOS Simulator SDK" in both debug and release and set the value to "arm64" Repeat this for each Pod with the error "Framework not found". Clean Build the project.

Adding arm64 to the "Excluded Architecture" "Any iOS Simulator SDK" to the Pods project helped me, thanks. — Andrew Lee, Jun 14 '21 at 08:34

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered May 30 '13 at 03:23

I had faced this problem before. I got over it by copy the missing (in red) framework from my friend's Mac then copy it to the Framework folder.

This is the path of my framework folder:

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS6.1.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks

You may need to change the path depend on your system or your sdk version.

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 16 '13 at 08:11

Most likely you decided to remove some of the frameworks you don't need and you deleted them but selected "Move to Trash" instead of "Remove reference".

The problem is that this framework was not included in your project's folder. It sits in a System folder when it can be used by multiple projects. So not only did you cause the current project not to compile, but also all projects on your computer.

If you have any frameworks left, you can right-click on them and check "Show in Finder". Than you can find your deleted frameworks in the trash (if it's not wiped already), and put them back in the system's Frameworks folder.

If you can't find this folder, for me it was here: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS7.0.sdk/System/Library

Of course, when you go in Applications folder and select Xcode, you have to right-click on it and click "Show Package Contents".

If you deleted your frameworks even from the trash, than I guess you could re-install Xcode...

Sivanathan · Answer 7 · 2010-07-29T18:51:43.273

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@Taimur Hamza - Its happen (red color) following any one of reason,

Your downloaded project may be miss some required files
Before run the application at first time.

so, first you have to find that above reason is happen and try to solve via copy the framework from another running project and paste it your project.

edited Jul 29 '10 at 18:51

answered Jul 29 '10 at 17:21

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+1 This answer didn't deserve a checkmark. It's not really incorrect just poorly phrased. – TechZen Jul 29 '10 at 18:12

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