Error building ios with cordova

Question

I have a problem when I build the ios platform with cordova. I have all the certificates for the app and device, but when I try to run in my ios device, doing ionic run ios, the

Answer 1

I've found this issue in several occasions and some of the provided answers worked quite well till today, when no one worked.

My environment: MacOS high Sierra 10.13, ionic cli 3.18.0 and cordova 7.1.0.

My problem was that if I run ionic cordova prepare it fails saying that I need to add a platform and if a I add a platform with ionic cordova platform add ios it fails with the error specified in the answer:

Error: Source path does not exist: resources/ios/icon/icon-40@3x.png

What solved my issue was manually creating the platforms folder: mkdir platforms. After creating this folder, adding a platform worked as usual.

I hope it could help someone out there.