Xcode 10.2 Update issue Build system error -1: Unable to load contents of file list: input/output xcfilelist

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After upgrading to Xcode 10.2 I am getting 2 errors

:-1: Unable to load contents of file list: 'xxxxx/Pods/Target Support Files/Pods-xxxx/Pods-xxxxx-frameworks-Debug-input-files.xcfilelist' (in target 'xxxxx')

:-1: Unable to load contents of file list: 'xxxxx/Pods/Target Support Files/Pods-xxxxx/Pods-xxxxx-frameworks-Debug-output-files.xcfilelist' (in target 'xxxxx')

I updated all my pod and changed build system to "Legacy Build System" but still getting the same build error

If this is an old project try to change build system to Legacy from file->Workspace Settings. — Subhash, Jul 28 '19 at 01:35

score 153 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 14 '19 at 12:49

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I struggled with this for several hours today and this is what finally worked for me:

sudo gem update cocoapods --pre
pod update
clean
build

From what I've read, this is an issue with the new build process that is enabled by default in Xcode 10.2 though I've not found the workaround clearly documented anywhere yet. There may be a more elegant solution than what I described.

edited Jun 14 '19 at 12:49

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answered Apr 04 '19 at 16:40

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Cocoapods 1.7 has been changed to Xcode new build system – mkhoshpour Jul 08 '19 at 08:43
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I have this issue, and that solution worked for my local machine, however, this is still happening on the CI build system, any ideas? – Ziv Kesten Aug 29 '19 at 11:54
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After running the above command I get. 'Updating installed gems', 'Nothing to update' – Abdullah Khan Jan 25 '21 at 08:26
How can i solve this in CI system? Azure pipeline. – M Karimi Jun 23 '22 at 03:05
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@MKarimi in my case the issue was related to the configuration being passed to 'xcodebuild' command, it was overriding the one provided in scheme, either remove it or try to match with a valid one – Shaz Aug 03 '22 at 09:32

score 105 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 14 '19 at 11:37

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delete 'Pods/', 'Podfile.lock', 'yourappname.xcworkspace'
pod deintegrate
pod install

it's work for me

I have encountered this problem every time, using the above method to solve, I do not know why, how to completely solve

edited Jun 14 '19 at 11:37

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answered May 07 '19 at 06:37

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Tried all above things but only solution worked was this. Thanks @symbool – Shubham Ojha Jun 22 '19 at 06:21
Only this solution worked for me. Delete workspace - it's a necessary step. – Vadim Kurochkin Jul 15 '20 at 11:06
I think the key is removing the Podfile.lock – alizx Jun 19 '21 at 14:30
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It seems that if you've added new configurations, doing the above will add the matching input and output files needed by each configuration. – Mario Nov 05 '21 at 18:24
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This worked for me. Just used the pod deintegrate and pod install. I had gotten the error after creating multiple schemes/environments – cherucole Nov 14 '21 at 10:07
Worked for me as well – pratik97179 May 28 '22 at 17:54
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I'm encountering this issue in my Flutter app in Xcode. Do I run the pod command from the IOS root of my project? – Powermaster Prime Sep 30 '22 at 02:23

score 56 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 10 '19 at 08:27

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To illustrate the answer of @nfranzmeier:

Go to your project:

Select the right target
Build Phases
Unfold [CP] Embed Pods Frameworks script phase
Remove the files under Input Files Lists and Output Files Lists sections by selecting each of them and clicking on the - button

And you're done!

answered Jul 10 '19 at 08:27

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helped, it's the actual solution – Raheel Sadiq Nov 06 '19 at 09:43
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Tried this on Xcode 11.4, Xcode spits "error: The sandbox is not in sync with the Podfile.lock. Run 'pod install' or update your CocoaPods installation." Running 'pod install' would just put the two file lists back in place. – CodeBrew Apr 19 '20 at 17:18
Tried this on Xcode 12.4 Diff: /Podfile.lock: No such file or directory Diff: /Manifest.lock: No such file or directory The sandbox is not in sync with the Podfile.lock. Run 'pod install' or update your CocoaPods installation. – HarrisHan Feb 23 '21 at 02:26
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This works for me on XCode 12.5. Also I removed the [CP] Copy Pods Resources – hernan May 15 '21 at 22:16
After trying the accepted solution I had no luck, this is what worked for me – wisenickel Feb 21 '22 at 03:01
what does this do ? – Ced Apr 18 '23 at 20:55
Tried all the above answers. But only this worked!!.THANK YOU – Uvais Jun 23 '23 at 06:35

score 31 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 14 '20 at 05:41

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None of the solutions above worked for me. What did the trick was:

Go to Xcode > Project > Info > Configurations
Set the values for Debug > Pods-XXX.debug and Release = Pods-XXX.release

This solved the issue for me on Xcode 12.0 beta

answered Aug 14 '20 at 05:41

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this helped me - my project had "Release" renamed to "Release-External" – abjurato Jan 13 '21 at 09:03
This was the only one worked for me, thanks :). – moji Mar 23 '21 at 03:29
This is the actual solution for this issue, thanks @soCohesive – Jorge Vicente Mendoza Oct 19 '21 at 21:13
I spent hours working on this problem, and this was the only one that worked for me too !! THANKS !!! – Giulia Lage Aug 05 '22 at 14:53
Thanks, this is the only one which worked for me – Alessio May 04 '23 at 06:57

score 19 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 16 '22 at 13:35

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This worked out for me:

cd ios && pod deintegrate

pod install

Then go ahead and rerun your project

answered Mar 16 '22 at 13:35

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score 18 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 06 '20 at 09:23

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Just pod install fixes this.

You don't necessarily want to update your pods (especially if you have not locked in versions explicitly). We had this error after creating a new Scheme.

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Shubham Ojha · Answer 7 · 2019-11-01T12:26:02.373

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This solved my problem:

Open **Terminal**
1) run -> pod deintegrate
2) run -> pod install

In **Xcode**
3) Click Product Menu
4) Keep Pressing Option Button
5) Click Clean Build Folder
6) Run

edited Nov 01 '19 at 12:26

answered Aug 13 '19 at 18:20

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score 10 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 26 '20 at 04:13

I had changed the Run Configurations, from: Debug to DEV, but didn't change the Scheme:

On top left, select your project name, next to your device:

Then, select your project and click "Edit"

Last, change from Debug to your desired "Run configuration", in my case was DEV:

Do that, for every single one in the list on the left, but for Profile, leave that one as Release or your equivalent:

score 7 · Answer 9 · answered Apr 16 '19 at 15:57

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You can just edit your xxxx.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj file and delete the offending lines xxxinput-files.xcfilelist and xxxoutput-files.xcfilelist from the inputFileListPaths() outputFileListPaths() so they're empty again and then save it and rebuild

answered Apr 16 '19 at 15:57

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I had to open the file with an external editor an search for it as on XCode it doesn't appear. Maybe the problem is that I'm using XCode 10 and 11 for different projects and maybe I opened the conflicting one with the wrong version. – BuguiBu Nov 28 '19 at 14:32

score 7 · Answer 10 · answered May 01 '20 at 04:42

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For me, this was caused because I was setting up a custom configuration (.xcconfig) file for different environments. I wasn't importing the Pods/Target Support Files/Pods-XXXXXX/Pods-XXXXXX.release.xcconfig into my configuration file.

This guide helped me find the missing step. https://thoughtbot.com/blog/let-s-setup-your-ios-environments

Thanks Patrick.

answered May 01 '20 at 04:42

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Thanks I have the same issue, different flavors. But it has been pretty hard to get to this point. Trying this solution now. – jasxir May 06 '21 at 08:09
If you know, do let me know if it's possible to add dynamic value in #include so the same file can be used for debug and release. Thanks. – jasxir May 06 '21 at 08:17

Jochen Holzer · Answer 11 · 2021-04-01T11:38:22.883

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In my case the error happened when archiving the app.

The cause was that the wrong build configuration was selected in the build scheme. This happened after introducing xcconfig-files for staging environment.

How i fixed it:

select the build scheme in Xcode (next to the "play" button)
select product -> scheme -> edit scheme
check if the correct build scheme is selected

see here:

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answered Mar 31 '21 at 16:26

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score 3 · Answer 12 · answered Mar 09 '20 at 15:41

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In my case 
 -> pod deintegrate
 -> pod clean 
 -> pod install 
 then rebuild the project works fine. 
 My XCode = 11.3.1

answered Mar 09 '20 at 15:41

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Welcome to Stack Overflow. You've left three answers in this same form. It would be good to make clear how you are sure that "your case" is the same as the case presented in the question and to explain how these steps do what they do and why that solves the problem that was presented. – Jason Aller Mar 09 '20 at 16:15
actual problem is accessing "frameworks-Debug-output-files.xcfilelist" file. all 3 problems indicate that they cannot access that file, that is why i have given the save answer. – Mahfuz Mar 10 '20 at 17:45
My XCode version is 11.4.1 had the same issue, if my guess is correct a pod libraries are either missing or not matching the ones cloned from github and the above process is required to install and update the correct libraries and references. Hope this helps. – Suhirthan May 24 '20 at 04:32

score 2 · Answer 13 · answered Jan 04 '23 at 18:42

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For myself it works like that:

For example app name is "xyz"

click xyz(top) -> project(xyz)-> info -> configuration -> Debug -> xyz -> "Select Pods-xyz.debug"

xcode-13 or above

answered Jan 04 '23 at 18:42

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score 1 · Answer 14 · answered Nov 27 '21 at 15:49

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cd ios

rm Podfile.lock

edit Podfile as below

# Uncomment this line to define a global platform for your project
platform :ios, '10.0'
>> Uncommented and bumped the version to 10

flutter clean

flutter pub get

pod repo update

pod update

answered Nov 27 '21 at 15:49

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score 1 · Answer 15 · answered Jun 22 '22 at 16:17

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If still have this problem and using flutter, you should open Runner Info Tab (in Xcode) set configuration file to None. then run pod deintegrate pod install.

answered Jun 22 '22 at 16:17

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He hasn't said that he is using flutter. – Rohit Gupta Jun 25 '22 at 12:23

score 0 · Answer 16 · answered Mar 17 '20 at 08:48

For me (using Mac Mojave) using the above solutions didn't work..

I manage to successfully overcome this issue by installing RVM on my Mac via:

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --auto-dotfiles --autolibs=enable --rails

As described on this page.

And then re-install cocoapods via:

gem install cocoapods

And lastly run again:

pod install

I hope this helps someone who was stuck endlessly like me :)

score 0 · Answer 17 · answered Oct 12 '20 at 18:31

I have the same issue and do the below steps and now am able to make build successful

go to Project->Configurations and set the valid configuration file for configuration.
if you see already set correct valid configuration file then do pod install
if you are not able see valid configuration file then pod install and Now you can see the valid configuration file just choose the right one now.

Note : I have this issue on Xcode 11.7

score 0 · Answer 18 · edited Dec 09 '21 at 16:04

These are the steps that worked for me:

In the terminal, inside of project document, type:

pod update
If pod is not found, you should install Cocoapods:

sudo gem install cocoapods
If it returns a ruby/gem error, you should install (or reinstall) Ruby:

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

rvm install ruby-2.7.2

sudo gem install cocoapods
Try to update pods again, and when it is finished, open .xcworkspace file.

score 0 · Answer 19 · answered Mar 13 '22 at 13:07

I solve the cloud_firestore not found the issue as well by this after integrating a new version of that cloud_firestore. (optional) update the podfile with the required version of cloud_firestore for fast compiling (saves 500k+ lines of execution).

delete 'Pods/', 'Podfile.lock', 'yourappname.xcworkspace'

pod deintegrate

pod install

score 0 · Answer 20 · answered Jul 28 '22 at 19:05

I resolved this issue with....

Go to your Targets in xcode
Go to Build Phases
Next go to Run Script and check it has any files in input file lists or output file lists
Now, Remove files (input-files.xcfilelist / output-files.xcfilelist) using symbol - from Input file Lists and Output file Lists respectively

score 0 · Answer 21 · answered Sep 24 '22 at 13:24

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Try to go to your project directory.
Navigate to /ios
Remove Podfile.lock
Run project

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score 0 · Answer 22 · answered Jun 30 '23 at 17:51

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For me, using Flutter, I had recreated my MacOs app and hadn't yet run it. Running the app adds the necessary files.

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score -4 · Answer 23 · answered Apr 11 '21 at 14:29

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Change build configuration from release mode to debug mode.

answered Apr 11 '21 at 14:29

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Xcode 10.2 Update issue Build system error -1: Unable to load contents of file list: input/output xcfilelist

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