You may have installed or moved Xcode to a new location. The path listed above is the default location of Xcode. Please note that the path to Xcode on your machine may vary. Sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer Open Terminal on your Mac and run the following command. Now we have to ensure that our system knows where our Xcode is and specifically where the developer tools which come bundled with it are installed. Xcode can be installed from the Mac AppStore or by downloading a xip file from the apple developer site. Pretty self explanatory and in all probability you should have done this step already. The setup used for the purpose of this writeup: If you have encountered this error, follow the steps below to fix it and setup CocoaPods correctly. It is a long error message in the Console which would probably state how even the “pod repo update” was attempted and it failed as well.įor the people who aren’t aware how Pods work and not familiar with the Xcode CocoaPods workflow, this error is very hard to decipher and fix. This will will likely result in an non – functional Xcode project. It is mostly during the first build or sometimes after an OS update or after a hard disk change or moving to a new machine, that problems creep up and the Unity build fails with the message – “ iOS framework addition failed due to a Cocoapods installation failure. Once everything is setup, the builds usually almost always run successfully and rarely give problems. which require CocoaPods, then these steps enlisted below should help you run a smooth and successful build.Įven if you are not using Unity and just using Xcode project, these steps should ensure that the pods get installed in your project successfully. If you are using Unity to build your iOS projects and use SDK’s like Firebase, Facebook etc.

Ios pod file