Downloaded Xcode 14.3 this morning and it will not build the project. It fails building the CocoaPods project with this error:
It varies which pod causes the failure, but always the first to link.
cd'ing into there confirms that there is no arc dir. The regular Xcode app (Version 14.2 (14C18)) runs just fine.
Any ideas?
Potentially useful information:
- Project with objc, swift and c
- Uses CocoaPods
- Uses automatic reference counting
- macOS Ventura 13.2.1 (22D68)
- Version 14.3 beta (14E5197f)
If you build a standard iOS app created from New > Project > iOS > App template and then looking at the build transcript, there are no references to libarclite_iphoneos.a. That’s because the app’s deployment target is modern enough that it can rely on ARC being built in to the system. Indeed, that’s always the case with Xcode 14, where it’s minimum supported deployment target is iOS 11 [1].
Presumably your app’s deployment target is not lower than what Xcode supports, so the question becomes: Why is your project trying to link libarclite_iphoneos.a, something it most definitely does not need? I don’t have a ready answer to that but it’s likely to be related to your third-party build system. I recommend that you escalate this via its support channel.
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[1] ARC was added to the system so far back that I can’t honestly remember when it happened. However, Wikipedia says iOS 5, and I’ve no reason to disbelieve it.
