libCordova.a file missing in PhoneGap 2.9

Question

Can you plz help me? I am using XCode version 4.6.3 and phonegap version 2.9. The project is running fine in Simulator but when I want to make a IPA file, it always build fa

Answer 1

In addition to several other suggestions & post, I found that I was experiencing this problem on my AdHoc builds only.

The problem for me was the the CordovaLib subproject did not have an AdHoc configuration. Once I added an "AdHoc" configuration to the CordovaLib subproject, this started working.

Please note that I figured this out during debugging because if I set the Edit Scheme > Archive build configuration to "release" it would work OK, but if set to AdHoc it would give me a link error, telling me that this file could not be found:

/Users/jason/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/MommyNearest-ceourmykvgxdekbkmzenuvhcfnzk/Build/Intermediates/ArchiveIntermediates/MommyNearest/BuildProductsPath/Adhoc-iphoneos/libCordova.a