Could not compile on IOS - InAppMessagingDisplayResources.bundle missing

[sebastian-zarzycki-apzumi]

Bug Report

Current behavior:

When creating a prod build (Ionic), it crashes with:

error: Resource "/Users/rattkin/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/driverhood-fdggvwggwpvrhxbzlvxxdbhztdnu/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/FirebaseInAppMessaging/InAppMessagingDisplayResources.bundle" not found. Run 'pod install' to update the copy resources script.

The following build commands failed:
	PhaseScriptExecution [CP]\ Copy\ Pods\ Resources /Users/rattkin/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/driverhood-fdggvwggwpvrhxbzlvxxdbhztdnu/Build/Intermediates.noindex/driverhood.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/driverhood.build/Script-53D89128D701315A18804F16.sh

xcodebuild: Command failed with exit code 65

I did pod install in platforms/ios but it didn't change anything. Also did pod repo update.

Looks like a problem with Firebase/InAppMessaging pod?

Expected behavior:
It should compile properly.

Steps to reproduce:
ionic cordova build ios --prod

Environment information

• Cordova CLI version
  9.0.0 (cordova-lib@9.0.1)
• Cordova platform version

Installed platforms:
  android 8.1.0
  browser 6.0.0
  ios 5.1.1
Available platforms: 
  electron ^1.0.0
  osx ^5.0.0
  windows ^7.0.0

• Plugins & versions installed in project (including this plugin)

call-number 0.0.2 "Cordova Call Number Plugin"
cordova-plugin-actionsheet 2.3.3 "ActionSheet"
cordova-plugin-androidx 1.0.2 "cordova-plugin-androidx"
cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter 1.1.0 "cordova-plugin-androidx-adapter"
cordova-plugin-camera 4.1.0 "Camera"
cordova-plugin-device 2.0.3 "Device"
cordova-plugin-dialogs 2.0.2 "Notification"
cordova-plugin-facebook4 6.3.0 "Facebook Connect"
cordova-plugin-firebasex 8.1.1 "Google Firebase Plugin"
cordova-plugin-geolocation 4.0.2 "Geolocation"
cordova-plugin-googleplus 8.4.0 "Google SignIn"
cordova-plugin-inappbrowser 3.2.0 "InAppBrowser"
cordova-plugin-ionic-webview 4.1.3 "cordova-plugin-ionic-webview"
cordova-plugin-market 1.2.0 "Market"
cordova-plugin-network-information 2.0.2 "Network Information"
cordova-plugin-sign-in-with-apple 0.0.1 "cordova-plugin-sign-in-with-apple"
cordova-plugin-splashscreen 5.0.3 "Splashscreen"
cordova-plugin-statusbar 2.4.3 "StatusBar"
cordova-plugin-whitelist 1.3.4 "Whitelist"
cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing 5.6.4 "SocialSharing"
es6-promise-plugin 4.2.2 "Promise"
ionic-plugin-deeplinks 1.0.20 "Ionic Deeplink Plugin"
uk.co.workingedge.phonegap.plugin.launchnavigator 5.0.4 "Launch Navigator"

• Dev machine OS and version, e.g.
  mac OS 10.15.3 Catalina

iOS build issue:

• Node JS version
  v10.18.1
• XCode version
  11.3.1

[sebastian-zarzycki-apzumi]

Works when I revert cordova-plugin-firebasex version to 8.0.1. In-app messaging support in recent releases must have broken something.

[jrista]

Also encountering the same issue. Tried running pod repo update and pod install in the cocoapods preparation phase of my CI build as well, to no avail:

      - run:
          name: Ionic - Prepare Cordova iOS & CocoaPods Dependencies
          command: |
            ionic cordova prepare ios --confirm --no-build
            cd platforms/ios/
            pod dependencies
            ionic cordova plugin rm cordova-plugin-firebasex
            ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-firebasex
            ionic cordova prepare ios --confirm --no-build
            pod repo update
            pod install

Getting this plugin working is, as you can see above, a major chore. CocoaPods' pod dependencies cannot be run unless the plugin is present, however the initial install of the plugin fails because CocoaPods is not installed properly. So one must first prep the cordova platform and install the plugin (in a failed state), do pod dependencies, then remove the plugin, add it back, re-prepare the platform, and now it seems also pod repo update and then run pod install...

There has got to be an easier way to get this plugin working... O-o

In the full error report:

PhaseScriptExecution [CP]\ Copy\ Pods\ Resources /Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/WICShopper.build/Release-iphonesimulator/WICShopper.build/Script-4C9A577E4E098CD9C9C43025.sh (in target 'WICShopper' from project 'WICShopper')
    cd /Users/distiller/project/platforms/ios
    /bin/sh -c /Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/WICShopper.build/Release-iphonesimulator/WICShopper.build/Script-4C9A577E4E098CD9C9C43025.sh
error: Resource "/Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Products/Release-iphonesimulator/FirebaseInAppMessaging/InAppMessagingDisplayResources.bundle" not found. Run 'pod install' to update the copy resources script.

Running the recommended command, pod install, does not seem to have any effect. I've looked for the specified .bundle file, and I cannot find it anywhere. The plugin does seem to have broken in the latest release.

[sebastian-zarzycki-apzumi]

The bundle is there, in the platforms/ios/build directory, but it's "flat", instead of sitting in a subdirectory called FirebaseMessaging or something like that. It's like either the referencing script has the wrong path, or the bundle isn't landing in the right spot.

[jrista]

I've tried to move back to version 8.0.1, but I am still having build problems. The current build error is this, which occurs whether I run pod install or not:

PhaseScriptExecution [CP]\ Check\ Pods\ Manifest.lock /Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/WICShopper.build/Release-iphonesimulator/WICShopper.build/Script-6CDB74AC9D91AFB94F3486DA.sh (in target 'WICShopper' from project 'WICShopper')
    cd /Users/distiller/project/platforms/ios
    /bin/sh -c /Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/WICShopper.build/Release-iphonesimulator/WICShopper.build/Script-6CDB74AC9D91AFB94F3486DA.sh
diff: /Podfile.lock: No such file or directory
diff: /Manifest.lock: No such file or directory
error: The sandbox is not in sync with the Podfile.lock. Run 'pod install' or update your CocoaPods installation.

This issue has left us dead in the water and unable to progress with our development. Any chance we could get some insight from the plugin authors?

[sebastian-zarzycki-apzumi]

Clean and reset the whole project, I suppose?

[jrista]

Every build in our CI is from a clean slate. We pull the repo, then run the necessary ionic/cordova commands to prepare, install plugins, etc. from scratch. We don't check in our platforms or plugins directories (one of the reasons we've stuck with Cordova, rather than move to Capacitor, as Capacitor usually requires that you fiddle with low-level native code and you end up having to check it all in...bleh. :P)

[sebastian-zarzycki-apzumi]

Are you using the modern build system for XCode, or legacy build system? Do you still have cordova-plugin-cocoapodsx in your project? It was dropped some time ago and maybe it clashes with something, if it's still left.

[jrista]

This is a relatively new project, started late last year with Ionic 4 and Cordova 9. It doe snot use cocoapodsx.

The project worked fine until last week, then it suddenly broke. We've been developing and deploying builds for several months, until maybe mid-week last week. The only change appears to be FirebaseX.

[jrista]

I have now tried several previous versions of the plugin. I restored our CI build script to what it used to be, before I started fiddling with it to try and resolve this issue. We originally started with v7.0.1 of this plugin back in November last year. I've tried 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 8.0.0 and 8.0.1. All of these versions result in this same error:

CompileC /Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/WICShopper.build/Release-iphonesimulator/WICShopper.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/FirebasePlugin.o /Users/distiller/project/platforms/ios/WICShopper/Plugins/cordova-plugin-firebasex/FirebasePlugin.m normal x86_64 objective-c com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0.compiler (in target 'WICShopper' from project 'WICShopper')
    cd /Users/distiller/project/platforms/ios
    export LANG=en_US.US-ASCII
    /Applications/Xcode-11.3.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang -x objective-c -target x86_64-apple-ios11.0-simulator -fmessage-length=0 -fdiagnostics-show-note-include-stack -fmacro-backtrace-limit=0 -std=c99 -fobjc-arc -fmodules -gmodules -fmodules-cache-path=/Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/ModuleCache.noindex -fmodules-prune-interval=86400 -fmodules-prune-after=345600 -fbuild-session-file=/Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/ModuleCache.noindex/Session.modulevalidation -fmodules-validate-once-per-build-session -Wno-trigraphs -fpascal-strings -Os -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-missing-prototypes -Wunreachable-code -Wno-implicit-atomic-properties -Wno-objc-interface-ivars -Wno-arc-repeated-use-of-weak -Wimplicit-retain-self -Wduplicate-method-match -Wno-missing-braces -Wparentheses -Wswitch -Wunused-function -Wno-unused-label -Wno-unused-parameter -Wunused-variable -Wunused-value -Wempty-body -Wuninitialized -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-shadow -Wno-four-char-constants -Wno-conversion -Wconstant-conversion -Wint-conversion -Wbool-conversion -Wenum-conversion -Wno-float-conversion -Wnon-literal-null-conversion -Wobjc-literal-conversion -Wshorten-64-to-32 -Wpointer-sign -Wno-newline-eof -Wno-selector -Wno-strict-selector-match -Wundeclared-selector -Wdeprecated-implementations -DOBJC_OLD_DISPATCH_PROTOTYPES=0 -isysroot /Applications/Xcode-11.3.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator13.2.sdk -fasm-blocks -fstrict-aliasing -Wprotocol -Wdeprecated-declarations -g -fvisibility=hidden -Wno-sign-conversion -Winfinite-recursion -Wcomma -Wblock-capture-autoreleasing -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-semicolon-before-method-body -fobjc-abi-version=2 -fobjc-legacy-dispatch -iquote /Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/WICShopper.build/Release-iphonesimulator/WICShopper.build/WICShopper-generated-files.hmap -I/Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/WICShopper.build/Release-iphonesimulator/WICShopper.build/WICShopper-own-target-headers.hmap -I/Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/WICShopper.build/Release-iphonesimulator/WICShopper.build/WICShopper-all-target-headers.hmap -iquote /Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/WICShopper.build/Release-iphonesimulator/WICShopper.build/WICShopper-project-headers.hmap -I/Users/distiller/project/platforms/ios/build/emulator/include -I/Users/distiller/project/platforms/ios/build/emulator/usr/local/lib/include -I/Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/UninstalledProducts/include -I/Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/UninstalledProducts/iphonesimulator/include -I/Users/distiller/project/platforms/ios/build/emulator -I/Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/WICShopper.build/Release-iphonesimulator/WICShopper.build/DerivedSources-normal/x86_64 -I/Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/WICShopper.build/Release-iphonesimulator/WICShopper.build/DerivedSources/x86_64 -I/Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/WICShopper.build/Release-iphonesimulator/WICShopper.build/DerivedSources -F/Users/distiller/project/platforms/ios/build/emulator -include /Users/distiller/project/platforms/ios/build/sharedpch/SharedPrecompiledHeaders/749132040139485224/WICShopper-Prefix.pch -MMD -MT dependencies -MF /Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/WICShopper.build/Release-iphonesimulator/WICShopper.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/FirebasePlugin.d --serialize-diagnostics /Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/WICShopper.build/Release-iphonesimulator/WICShopper.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/FirebasePlugin.dia -c /Users/distiller/project/platforms/ios/WICShopper/Plugins/cordova-plugin-firebasex/FirebasePlugin.m -o /Users/distiller/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WICShopper-bvrgbdzwowyexyasjjjdflehrghx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/WICShopper.build/Release-iphonesimulator/WICShopper.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/FirebasePlugin.o
/Users/distiller/project/platforms/ios/WICShopper/Plugins/cordova-plugin-firebasex/FirebasePlugin.m:4:9: fatal error: 'Firebase.h' file not found
#import "Firebase.h"
        ^~~~~~~~~~~~

If I run pod install, I get the error I previously reported, about Podfile.lock and Manifest.lock missing.

We are completely dead in the water here.

[dpa99c]

Upon investigation, it seems this error only occurs when building from the CLI (via the xcodebuild tool) - building from Xcode works fine (hence - since I always build in Xcode - this issue was missed).
For comparison here's the (failed) CLI build console output) vs the (successful) Xcode build console output.

As to why this error should occur, I currently have no idea.
The Inapp Messaging component was added by merging PR #312 and on the face of it is a simple addition - just the addition of a Firebase SDK component via its Cocoapods reference with no associated plugin code changes.
The CLI build fails because InAppMessagingDisplayResources.bundle was not found. This seems be be an implicit component of the Firebase SDK (vs something which is explicitly specified by this plugin).
Hence there doesn't seem to be much that can be done from the plugin to resolve this short of removing the Inapp Messaging component of the Firebase SDK from this plugin, which of course will lose that associated functionality.

In the meantime, the workaround is to build from Xcode rather than the CLI.

[dpa99c]

I tried updating the podspecs to reference the latest v6.18.0 release of the Firebase SDK for iOS but the issue still occurs when building from the CLI 😞

[jrista]

We don't have the option of building with XCode in our CI (Continuous Integration) build. It has to be command line. So that cannot be the recommended solution. Both old versions, and the current version, are currently broken. I don't know if that is because of a Firebase SDK update that has broken all versions prior to 8.1.1, or something else...but we use Firebase Analytics and Cloud Messaging, and currently our development is halted because of the changes here.

Is there some way to get the previous version, 8.0.1, working without running into either of the errors I've posted above? We don't need In-App Messaging, but it doesn't seem as though 8.0.1 builds at the command line any better than 8.1.1...

[jrista]

I tried updating the podspecs to reference the latest v6.18.0 release of the Firebase SDK for iOS but the issue still occurs when building from the CLI 😞

Would it be possible to reference a previous version? Any chance we could get an 8.0.2 that references the same version of the SDK that worked prior to 8.1.1?

[dpa99c]

v8.0.1 builds fine from the CLI - see this console output from my build.

It's the addition of the Inapp Messaging component that has caused the issue with CLI builds on iOS.

[jrista]

Ok. I had to find and update all version references to the firebasex plugin and set them to 8.0.1, and explicitly reference 8.0.1 when I reinstall the plugin, after uninstalling it (because the first install of the plugin fails due to pods not being installed, but pods can't be installed until the plugin is installed...), before updating the pods, to get everything to work. Once I had all the version numbers configured explicitly to 8.0.1 in all places, the build finally started to work.