Undefined symbols for architecture arm64 - ios

Question

I am getting a Apple Mach-O Linker Error everytime I import a file from CocoaPods.
Undefined symbols for architecture arm64:
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_FBSession", referenced from: someFile
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64
I get about 12 of these, for the various Pods I use.
I am trying to build for the iPhone 5S using XCode 5.
I've been trying various solutions here on SO, but haven't got any of them to work yet.
How do I fix this Apple Mach-O Linker Error?
Just found another warning that might be interesting, I hope this leads me to the solution:
Ignoring file ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/SomeApp/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libPods.a,
file was built for archive which is not the architecture being linked (arm64):~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/someApp/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libPods.a

Answer 1

If your Architectures and Valid Architectures are all right, you may check whether you have added $(inherited) , which will add linker flags generated in pods, to Other Linker Flags as below:

Answer 2

The issue is that the cocoapods have not been built for arm64 architecture yet thus they cannot be linked when you build them. Likely you cannot use those packages until they are updated and use that architecture. You can fix the linker error by going to project -> target (your project name) -> build settings and change architectures to standard architectures (armv7, armv7s), and valid architectures to armv7, armv7s.
Note though, this means you won't get the full power of the 64 bit processor. You said you are building for the 5s, so there may be some reason you need this. If you for some reason absolutely need that power (perhaps you are building a game), and desperately need those files, you could submit a pull request and then recompile the project to arm64 by setting those same fields to arm64 in the files you pulled from the open source projects. But, unless you really need these files to be 64 bit compatible, that seems like a bit of overkill for now.
EDIT: Some people also reported that setting Build For Active Architectures to YES was also necessary to solve this problem.
As of 2014-04-28 the setting should look something like this:

Answer 3

I solved this problem by setting that:
ARCHS = armv7 armv7s
VALID_ARCHS = armv6 armv7 armv7s arm64

Answer 4

I ran into the same/similar issue implementing AVPictureInPictureController and the issue was that I wasn't linking the AVKit framework in my project.
The error message was:
Undefined symbols for architecture armv7:
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_AVPictureInPictureController", referenced from:
objc-class-ref in yourTarget.a(yourObject.o)
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture armv7
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
The Solution:
Go to your Project
Select your Target
Then, go to Build Phases
Open Link Binary With Libraries
Finally, just add + the AVKit framework / any other framework.
Hopefully this helps someone else running into a similar issue I had.

Answer 5

I also encountered the same problem , the above methods will not work . I accidentally deleted the files in the following directory on it .
Folder emplacement:
~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/

Answer 6

Set Architectures to armv7 armv7s, Build Active Architecture Only to NO, for every target in the project, including every one in Pods

Answer 7

I fixed mine by checking the selected implementation files in the target membership on the right side. This is useful especially in dealing with extensions i.e. custom keyboards.

Answer 8

Here are some explanations why build_active_architecture is set to NO.
Xcode now detects which devices you have connected and will set the active architecture accordingly. So if you plug a 2nd generation iPod Touch into your computer, Xcode should set the active architecture to armv6. Building your target with the above Debug configuration will now only build the armv6 binary to save time (unless you have a huge project you may not notice the difference but I guess the seconds add up over time).
When you create a Distribution configuration for publishing to the App Store, you should make sure this option is not set, so that Xcode will instead build the fat universal binary
http://useyourloaf.com/blog/2010/04/21/xcode-build-active-architecture-only.html

Answer 9

This might be related to libz.dylib or libz.tbd, just have to add it to your targets for the linking binaries, and try to compile again.

Answer 10

You need to just remove arm64 from Valid Architecture and set NO to Active Architecture Only . Now just Clean, Build and Run. You will not see this error again.
:) KP

Answer 11

Solved after deleting the content of the DerivedData-->Build-->Products-->Debug-iphoneos

Answer 12

I solved it by setting valid archs to armv7 armv7s and setting build active architectures only to YES in release and then doing a new "pod install" from the command line

Answer 13

Following worked for me:
Remove all pods
cd ios && pod deintegrate
Comment this line in ios/Podfile -> use_flipper!()
Reinstall all pods arch -x86_64 pod install
Run your app :) npm run ios
Environment:
Node version: 14.17.1
RN version: 6.0.0
OS: macOS BigSur m1

Answer 14

Given an iPhone 5s and not yet having received a 64 bit version of a third party library, I had to go back to 32 bit mode with the latest Xcode (prior to 5.1 it didn't complain).
I fixed this by deleting arm64 from the Valid Architectures list and then setting Build Active Architecture Only to NO. It seems to me this makes more sense than the other way around as shown above. I'm posting in case other people couldn't get any of the above solutions to work for them.

Answer 15

I had the same problem after upgrading to Xcode 5.1 and fixed it by setting Architectures to armv7 armv7s

Answer 16

Had been stuck on this issue the whole day.
I had multiple Schemes, it was compiling fine for Demo, Internal, Release - however Debug scheme just would not compile and was complaining about the libPods.a missing.
The solution was to go to the Project -> Target -> Build Settings and change "Build Active Architecture Only" to YES. Clean and build! Finally hours of head itching solved!

Answer 17

Setting -ObjC to Other Linker Flags in Build Settings of the target solved the problem.

Answer 18

This worked for me:
ios sdk 9.3
into your build setting of app.xcodeproj
valid architecture: armv7 armv7s
Build Active architecture : No
Clean and build , worked for me.

Answer 19

If you faced this issue on your Flutter project while building in Release mode (or Archive) check out my this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/61446892/5502121
Long story short:
set your build system to New Build System in File > Project Settings…
remove ios and build_ios folders
run flutter create . to init new ios module
run pod install
run flutter pub get
check your Xcode build config (it should be Release mode and General iOS Device)
and you're good to go

Answer 20

The following worked for me to get GPUImage compiling without errors on Xcode 5.1 for both the 64-bit simulator and retina iPad Mini, without needing to remove arm64 from the Valid Architectures list (which defeats the purpose of owning a 64-bit device for testing 64-bit performance).
Download the .zip folder from the GitHub page: https://github.com/BradLarson/GPUImage
Unzip, and navigate to the 'framework' folder. From here, add and copy the 'Source' folder into your Xcode project. Ensure 'Copy items into destination group's folder' is ticked, and that 'Create groups for any added folders' is also ticked. This will copy the generic, iOS and Mac header/implementation files into your project.
If you don't need the Mac files because you're compiling for iOS you can delete the Mac folder either before you copy the files into your project, or simply delete the group from within Xcode.
Once you've added the Source folder to your project just use the following to begin using GPUImage's classes/methods:
#import "Source/GPUImage.h"
A few things to point out:
If you get an error saying 'Cocoa' not found, you've added the Mac folder/headers into your iOS project - simply delete the Mac group/files from your project and the warning will vanish
If you rename the Source folder (not the group in Xcode), use that name instead of "Source/GPUImage.h" in the #import instruction. So if you rename the folder to GPUImageFiles before you add to your project, use: #import "GPUImageFiles/GPUImage.h
Obviously ensure arm64 is selected in the Valid Architectures list to take advantage of the A7 64-bit processor!
This isn't a GPUImage.framework bundle (such as if you downloaded the framework from http://www.raywenderlich.com/60968/ios-7-blur-effects-gpuimage) so it may not the correct way to use GPUImage that Brad Larson intended, but it works for my current SpriteKit project.
There's no need to link to frameworks/libraries etc - just import the header and implementation source folder as described above
Hope the above helps - it seems there were no clear instructions anywhere despite the question being asked multiple times, but fear not, GPUImage definitely works for arm64 architecture!

Answer 21

This issue occurred for me after installing a pod via Podfile and pod install. After trying a bunch of different fixes I finally just imported the Pod manually (dragging the necessary files into my project) and that solved the problem.

Answer 22

As morisunshine answer pointed in right direction, a little tweak in his answer solved my problem for iOS8.2 .Thanks to him.
I solved this problem by setting that:
ARCHS = armv7
VALID_ARCHS = armv6 armv7 armv7s arm64
BUILD ACTIVE ARCHITECTURE ONLY= NO

Answer 23

Go to target Build Settings.
set BUILD ACTIVE ARCHITECTURE ONLY = NO for both Debug and Release
Build and run

Answer 24

In my case, I had to look for
C++ Standard Library and make sure that the libc++ was the one selected.

Answer 25

For me, I use opencv 2.4.9 in xcode 7.2 for iOS and the errors above occurred, and I solve the errors by using the opencv through pod install rather than offline opencv framework.
You can have a try by adding the opencv pod text below and delete the offline opencv framework if you have used.
pod 'OpenCV', '2.4.9'

Answer 26

None of the solutions fix this error in my case(Xcode 9), with TesseractOCRiOS. After hours of trial and error, I came up with a good solution. I just delete 'pod 'TesseractOCRiOS', '~> 4.0.0' in the Podfile, run pod install. And then, add pod 'TesseractOCRiOS', '~> 4.0.0' back to Podfile and run pod install again.
Bang! It works!

Answer 27

"The OPN [Debug] target overrides the OTHER_LDFLAGS build setting". This was the main issue. After adding $(inherited) in new line in other linker flags solved my issue.

Answer 28

in some case, if you define one more interface in a .h file, but did not implementation all these interface, this error occurred.
The linker can't found the implementation in .m file, so you need to implementation it in your .m file for every interface.
To resolve this error:
1.in .m file, supply the implementation for each interface.
2.rebuild

Answer 29

I faced the same issue.
My solution I found here: Why linker link static libraries with errors? iOS
Adding $(TOOLCHAIN_DIR)/usr/lib/swift/$(PLATFORM_NAME) to the library search paths fixed the problem.

Answer 30

This linker error message suggests that the source file defining it is not marked as being part of your app target. Find that source file, and use the File property inspector on the right to check the target membership entry for your app target.
Solution:
Select the file -> openFile Inspector -> see Target Membership -> check if unchecked target your running target