Xcode 4.5 no such file or directory - libCordova.a

Question

clang: error: no such file or directory: \'/Users/admin/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/__TESTING__-fzbkvdbnndieeagphtjhdndiyttl/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/li

Answer 1

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

This was actually a good clue to what the problem was, which was that somehow the CordovaLib subproject did not have an AdHoc configuration (it had ONLY "Debug" and "Release" configurations).

Therefore, when building for an AdHoc release (to use with Testflight) it would not create a symlink for this file correctly. Once I added an "AdHoc" configuration to the CordovaLib subproject, this started working.