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npm link plugins fail to find source_files on iOS

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When developing a plugin and using npm link, npx cap update ios finds the plugin and runs the install, but none of the source files copy over from cocoapods.

I’m guessing this is a cocoapods issue but wanted to file it here so we can figure out exactly where things are breaking

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Created 5 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:6 (6 by maintainers)

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mlynchcommented, May 11, 2018

I can get it to work by putting the podspec into the ios folder in the plugin, but that ends up with some other weird behavior:

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jcesarmobilecommented, Feb 27, 2019

Should be fixed by https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/pull/1077

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