Blank app fails debug build - /Info.plist file not found

Question

In a larger context I resorted back to creating a blank project and running my build commands. Same error:

ionic start myApp blank
cd myApp
ionic cordova run         


        

Answer 1

This problem is caused because Xcode 10 contains a new build system which is currently not compatible with cordova-ios@4 - see here.

The solution for now is to run Cordova with the --buildFlag='-UseModernBuildSystem=0' option to instruct Xcode to use the old build system, e.g.:

 cordova run ios --debug --target "iPhone-8" --buildFlag='-UseModernBuildSystem=0'

Update: For my own convenience, I've wrapped this in a shell script:

#!/bin/bash
# Adds build flag to make cordova-ios@4 work with Xcode 10
cordova "$@" --buildFlag='-UseModernBuildSystem=0'

I saved this in a file called cordova-xcode10, made sure it's in the path and made it executable (chmod a+x cordova-xcode10), then I can just do:

cordova-xcode10 run ios --target "iPhone-8"

and it will work with Xcode 10