Cordova ios error building Images.xcassets

Question

I've spent a lot of time trying to work this out to no avail.

I udpated cordova and since el capitan my mac now has issues with NPM and cordova.

I got it to install but I have to use sudo for cordova now.

I tried the following:

sudo cordova platform remove ios
sudo cordova platform add ios
sudo cordova build ios

And this gives me the following output:

** BUILD FAILED **


The following build commands failed:
    CompileAssetCatalog build/emulator/<AppName>.app <AppName>/Images.xcassets
(1 failure)
ERROR building one of the platforms: Error code 65 for command: xcodebuild with args: -xcconfig,/Users/MacUserName/Desktop/<AppName>/<AppName>/platforms/ios/cordova/build-debug.xcconfig,-project,<AppName>.xcodeproj,ARCHS=i386,-target,<AppName>,-configuration,Debug,-sdk,iphonesimulator,build,VALID_ARCHS=i386,CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR=/Users/MacUserName/Desktop/<AppName>/<AppName>/platforms/ios/build/emulator,SHARED_PRECOMPS_DIR=/Users/MacUserName/Desktop/<AppName>/<AppName>/platforms/ios/build/sharedpch
You may not have the required environment or OS to build this project
Error: Error code 65 for command: xcodebuild with args: -xcconfig,/Users/MacUserName/Desktop/<AppName>/<AppName>/platforms/ios/cordova/build-debug.xcconfig,-project,<AppName>.xcodeproj,ARCHS=i386,-target,<AppName>,-configuration,Debug,-sdk,iphonesimulator,build,VALID_ARCHS=i386,CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR=/Users/MacUserName/Desktop/<AppName>/<AppName>/platforms/ios/build/emulator,SHARED_PRECOMPS_DIR=/Users/MacUserName/Desktop/<AppName>/<AppName>/platforms/ios/build/sharedpch

Cordova version

sudo cordova -v
6.0.0

Update: I'm now running 6.1.1, still the same issue

Cordova iOS platform version

sudo cordova platform ios -v
6.1.1

Mac Version: 10.11.3
XCode Version:7.2.1

Answer 1

I managed to solve this issue by removing the non-storyboard splash references in config.xml, the newest version of cordova seems to be only using the storyboard ones:

So removed:

    <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default~iphone.png" width="320" height="480"/>
    <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default@2x~iphone.png" width="640" height="960"/>
    <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default-Portrait~ipad.png" width="768" height="1024"/>
    <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default-Portrait@2x~ipad.png" width="1536" height="2048"/>
    <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default-Landscape~ipad.png" width="1024" height="768"/>
    <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default-Landscape@2x~ipad.png" width="2048" height="1536"/>
    <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default-568h@2x~iphone.png" width="640" height="1136"/>
    <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default-667h.png" width="750" height="1334"/>
    <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default-736h.png" width="1242" height="2208"/>
    <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default-Landscape-736h.png" width="2208" height="1242"/>

And kept only these:

        <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default@2x~iphone~anyany.png" />
        <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default@2x~iphone~comany.png" />
        <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default@2x~iphone~comcom.png" />
        <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default@3x~iphone~anyany.png" />
        <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default@3x~iphone~anycom.png" />
        <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default@3x~iphone~comany.png" />
        <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default@2x~ipad~anyany.png" />
        <splash src="res/ios/splash/Default@2x~ipad~comany.png" />