Happy to report that the proposed fix builds on Xcode 8.3.1 as well.

Interesting. Sometimes when I do a build it changes:

{ isa = PBXFileReference; lastKnownFileType = "wrapper.pb-project"; path = "CordovaLib.xcodeproj"; sourceTree = CORDOVALIB; };

to:

{ isa = PBXFileReference; lastKnownFileType = "wrapper.pb-project"; name = CordovaLib.xcodeproj; path = CordovaLib/CordovaLib.xcodeproj; sourceTree = "<group>"; };

... but sometimes it doesn't. When it changes it, it builds fine. When it doesn't, it results in my build error. So Xcode does offer a backwards compatible change (it transforms it for you), but it is not reliable.

Tested by creating a new project, adding the ios platform, then observing the .pbxproj before and after a build.

Looks like its not Xcode, since when I just do a cordova platform add ios it does that transformation, not sure why – I attribute it to caching shenanigans. I tried adding the platform locally and it fails (no transformation).

GitHub user shazron opened a pull request:

https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/pull/307

CB-12673 - ios platform does not build on Xcode 8.3.2

1. 1. 1. Platforms affected

self

1. 1. 1. What does this PR do?

Fixes the CordovaLib.xcodeproj reference in the template. Xcode 8.3.2 will not build a cordova-ios platform with the old reference.

1. 1. 1. What testing has been done on this change?

1. Installed Xcode 8.3.2
2. Created a new Cordova project
3. Added a cordova-ios platform (4.3.1) locally from disk using a file path
4. cordova build --emulator

1. 1. 1. Checklist

• [X] [Reported an issue](http://cordova.apache.org/contribute/issues.html) in the JIRA database
• [X] Commit message follows the format: "CB-3232: (android) Fix bug with resolving file paths", where CB-xxxx is the JIRA ID & "android" is the platform affected.

You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:

$ git pull https://github.com/shazron/cordova-ios CB-12673

Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:

https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/pull/307.patch

To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:

This closes #307

commit 679d87ee10f440162923615fc178bd06be20c43b
Author: Shazron Abdullah <shazron@gmail.com>
Date: 2017-04-19T21:41:23Z

CB-12673 - ios platform does not build on Xcode 8.3.2

Github user shazron commented on the issue:

https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/pull/307

Not sure why CI is failing on an unrelated unit-test, it passes locally. Investigating.

Commit 39160bde6fb4a951f94c6eb525c2a44e4f09102e in cordova-ios's branch refs/heads/master from Shazron Abdullah
[ https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cordova-ios.git;h=39160bd ]

CB-12673 - ios platform does not build on Xcode 8.3.2

This closes #307

Github user asfgit closed the pull request at:

https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/pull/307

Github user leshik commented on the issue:

https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/pull/307

@shazron hi, doesn't work for me with latest cordova-ios@4.4.0 – same error (`<Cordova/CDVViewController.h> file not found`).
What can I do to troubleshoot the issue?

Github user shazron commented on the issue:

https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/pull/307

@leshik can you try with a new fresh project? perhaps in a new existing project you need to `cordova platform rm ios` then `cordova platform add ios`
Confirm you are getting the latest: `cordova platform ls`

Github user qcgm1978 commented on the issue:

https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/pull/307

@shazron I create a new project and open it in Xcode, when I modified js file in www folder, it not update after click run button to execute it in emulator.

Github user shazron commented on the issue:

https://github.com/apache/cordova-ios/pull/307

@qcgm1978 not sure why you commented here, it's not relevant to the issue. Cordova was meant to be used through the CLI, not Xcode. `www` is for edits when using the cordova cli, it will process and copy to the respective platforms folders. Since you are in Xcode dev mode only, you modify the `Staging\www` contents.