Apple Mach-O Linker Error when compiling for devic

Question

I've just upgraded to xcode 4.0 and I can no longer deploy to iPhone, I get a Apple Mach-O Linker Error, it still works for the simulator though.

    Ld /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Intermediates/iParcel.build/Debug-iphoneos/iParcel.build/Objects-normal/armv7/iParcel normal armv7
    cd /Users/yveswheeler/iParcel
    setenv IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET 3.2
    setenv PATH "/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin:/Developer/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
    /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/g++-4.2 -arch armv7 -isysroot /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS4.3.sdk -L/Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos -F/Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos -filelist /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Intermediates/iParcel.build/Debug-iphoneos/iParcel.build/Objects-normal/armv7/iParcel.LinkFileList -dead_strip -all_load -ObjC -lxml2 -miphoneos-version-min=3.2 -framework UIKit -framework CoreGraphics -framework QuartzCore /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libThree20.a /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libThree20Core.a /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libThree20Network.a /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libThree20Style.a /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libThree20UI.a /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libThree20UICommon.a /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libThree20UINavigator.a -framework AddressBook -lz.1.2.3 -framework Foundation -framework CFNetwork -framework MobileCoreServices -framework SystemConfiguration -framework MessageUI -framework AudioToolbox -o /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Intermediates/iParcel.build/Debug-iphoneos/iParcel.build/Objects-normal/armv7/iParcel

arm-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1: /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libThree20.a: No such file or directory
arm-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1: /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libThree20Core.a: No such file or directory
arm-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1: /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libThree20Network.a: No such file or directory
arm-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1: /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libThree20Style.a: No such file or directory
arm-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1: /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libThree20UI.a: No such file or directory
arm-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1: /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libThree20UICommon.a: No such file or directory
arm-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1: /Users/yveswheeler/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/iParcel-fkeqjcjcbbhjwhdssjptkdxzzzxh/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libThree20UINavigator.a: No such file or directory
Command /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/g++-4.2 failed with exit code 1

Answer 1

Check to make sure that you don't have a specific framework search path specified. if you go to the info on the target and just remove the framework search path entries it should use the defaults for your specified deployment version.

Answer 2

For Swift language ...

I am getting this error " ld: file too small (length=0) .... "

In my case I just clean the project and then rebuild it ..

Steps:-

1) goto Project -> Clean

2) goto Project -> Build

Hope this helps..

Answer 3

You may need to update your build settings.

Verify the iOS target version and the processor architectures, as you may not have the old SDKs with XCode 4.

You may see «Missing SDK» on the build settings. Change that to whatever applies.

Answer 4

If you are using CoreData, and you use XCode to generate NSManagedObject subclasses for your entities, make sure you only generate one for each entity.

My problem was that it generated multiple NSManagedObject subclasses for the same entity (and put them in different folders).

I just deleted all of them and regenerated the NSManagedObject subclasses.

Answer 5

None of these answers helped me. Then I tried to reinstall Cocoapods:

pod deintegrate

pod install

Problem solved!

Answer 6

I mistakenly defined a new constant with the same name as an existing constant in a different file and it caused this error for me using xCode 4.3.1. xCode didn't complain but the compiler doesn't like it.