Unable to build iOS with clean install of Master-Client Firebase template (ld: warning: directory not found for option)

Getting following error upon running iOS simulator:

Executing after-prepare hook from /Users/leecocking/Dev/tns-ng-firebase-test/hooks/after-prepare/nativescript-plugin-firebase.js
Building project...
Xcode build...
=== BUILD TARGET tnsngfirebasetest OF PROJECT tnsngfirebasetest WITH CONFIGURATION Debug ===
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/FirebaseAuth'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/FirebaseCore'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/FirebaseDatabase'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/FirebaseStorage'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/GTMSessionFetcher'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/GoogleUtilities'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/QBImagePickerController'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/leveldb-library'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/nanopb'
ld: warning: Auto-Linking framework not found CoreServices
=== BUILD TARGET tnsngfirebasetest OF PROJECT tnsngfirebasetest WITH CONFIGURATION Debug ===
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/FirebaseAuth'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/FirebaseCore'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/FirebaseDatabase'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/FirebaseStorage'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/GTMSessionFetcher'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/GoogleUtilities'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/QBImagePickerController'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/leveldb-library'
ld: warning: directory not found for option '-F/Users/lc/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/tnsngfirebasetest-darwhbrwnocxeldyszqeyoxotdvt/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/nanopb'
ld: warning: linking ObjC for iOS Simulator, but dylib (/Users/lc/Dev/tns-ng-firebase-test/platforms/ios/internal/NativeScript.framework/NativeScript) was compiled for MacOSX
ld: warning: linking ObjC for iOS Simulator, but dylib (/Users/lc/Dev/tns-ng-firebase-test/node_modules/nativescript-plugin-firebase/platforms/ios/TNSMLKitCamera.framework/TNSMLKitCamera) was compiled for MacOSX
ld: warning: linking ObjC for iOS Simulator, but dylib (/Users/lc/Dev/tns-ng-firebase-test/node_modules/nativescript-ui-listview/platforms/ios/TNSListView.framework/TNSListView) was compiled for MacOSX
ld: warning: linking ObjC for iOS Simulator, but dylib (/Users/lc/Dev/tns-ng-firebase-test/node_modules/nativescript-ui-core/platforms/ios/TNSCore.framework/TNSCore) was compiled for MacOSX
ld: warning: ObjC dylib (/Users/lc/Dev/tns-ng-firebase-test/node_modules/tns-core-modules-widgets/platforms/ios/TNSWidgets.framework/TNSWidgets) was compiled for iOS Simulator, but dylibs others were compiled for MacOSX
ld: warning: Auto-Linking framework not found CoreServices

tns doctor says my environment is good:

✔ Getting environment information 

No issues were detected.
✔ Your ANDROID_HOME environment variable is set and points to correct directory.
✔ Your adb from the Android SDK is correctly installed.
✔ The Android SDK is installed.
✔ A compatible Android SDK for compilation is found.
✔ Javac is installed and is configured properly.
✔ The Java Development Kit (JDK) is installed and is configured properly.
✔ Xcode is installed and is configured properly.
✔ xcodeproj is installed and is configured properly.
✔ CocoaPods are installed.
✔ CocoaPods update is not required.
✔ CocoaPods are configured properly.
✔ Your current CocoaPods version is newer than 1.0.0.
✔ Python installed and configured correctly.
✔ The Python 'six' package is found.
✔ Xcode version 9.4.1 satisfies minimum required version 9.
✔ Getting NativeScript components versions information...
✔ Component nativescript has 5.0.3 version and is up to date.
✔ Component tns-core-modules has 5.0.5 version and is up to date.
✔ Component tns-android has 5.0.0 version and is up to date.
✔ Component tns-ios has 5.0.0 version and is up to date.

Environment nativescript-angular: ~7.0.0 nativescript-firebase-plugin: ~7.4.0 tns: 5.0.3 angular: ~7.0.0 webpack: ~7.0.0 xcode: 9.4.1 (was originally 10.1)

Steps to reproduce

1. Run tns create my-app-name --template tns-template-master-detail-ng
2. Run tns platform add ios
3. Run tns run ios --bundle

iOS always produces the same result, but Android always builds perfectly.

Troubleshooting

• Delete everything and start again
• Try tns platform remove ios then tns platform add ios
• Downgrade xcode from 10 to 9.4
• Ensure pod is up to date with pod repo update, pod update and pod install
• Try tns run ios --bundle --clean
• Try on a different computer (3 systems producing the same result actually)
• Open project directly with Xcode and try building

No matter what I do it’s the same result unfortunately.

[EddyVerbruggen]

FYI build error may be experienced because of an upstream issue in the Firebase iOS SDK as was reported in #1061. I’ve released 7.4.4 to fix that one.

[EddyVerbruggen]

@NickIliev Exactly, but according to their release notes there’s no version between 5.12.0 and 5.13.0, and 5.12.0 seems to work just fine for me (even after a pod repo update). And the resolved version in platforms/ios/Podfile.lock is indeed 5.12.0.

Btw, I just tried building with 5.13.0 and 5.14.0 and there’s a build error when Firestore is added to the firebase plugin config file, so I’ll stick to 5.12.0 until I’ve found a fix for that.