ios - ld: file not found: linker command failed with exit code 1

Question

I've got the following error when building the project in Xcode:

ld: file not found

/Users/MacBookPro/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Social_Events-cfnteabiivwfdzcoulzznhmgobhy/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/Social_Events.app/Social_Events clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

I'm stuck with this error for the past hour.. Any solutions? Code worked fine in iOS 7 and xCode 5.0. Now for iOS8 it gives me this error.

Using frameworks:

• CoreTelephony
• Mapkit
• Facebook.SDK v3.20
• Foundation
• CoreGraphics
• UIKit Framework

FULL ERROR:

<pre>
Ld /Users/MacBookPro/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Social_Events-cfnteabiivwfdzcoulzznhmgobhy/Build/Intermediates/Social_Events.build/Debug-iphoneos/Social_EventsTests.build/Objects-normal/arm64/Social_EventsTests normal arm64
    cd /Users/MacBookPro/Desktop/Social_Events/Social_Events/Social_Events
    export IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=7.1
    export PATH="/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
</pre>

>/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang -arch arm64 -bundle -isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS8.1.sdk -L/Users/MacBookPro/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Social_Events-cfnteabiivwfdzcoulzznhmgobhy/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos -F/Users/MacBookPro/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Social_Events-cfnteabiivwfdzcoulzznhmgobhy/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos -F/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS8.1.sdk/Developer/Library/Frameworks -F/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Frameworks -F/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/Library/Frameworks -F/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS8.1.sdk/Developer/Library/Frameworks -filelist /Users/MacBookPro/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Social_Events-cfnteabiivwfdzcoulzznhmgobhy/Build/Intermediates/Social_Events.build/Debug-iphoneos/Social_EventsTests.build/Objects-normal/arm64/Social_EventsTests.LinkFileList -dead_strip -bundle_loader /Users/MacBookPro/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Social_Events-cfnteabiivwfdzcoulzznhmgobhy/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/Social_Events.app/Social_Events -framework XCTest -fobjc-arc -fobjc-link-runtime -miphoneos-version-min=7.1 -framework XCTest -framework UIKit -framework Foundation -Xlinker -dependency_info -Xlinker /Users/MacBookPro/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Social_Events-cfnteabiivwfdzcoulzznhmgobhy/Build/Intermediates/Social_Events.build/Debug-iphoneos/Social_EventsTests.build/Objects-normal/arm64/Social_EventsTests_dependency_info.dat -o /Users/MacBookPro/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Social_Events-cfnteabiivwfdzcoulzznhmgobhy/Build/Intermediates/Social_Events.build/Debug-iphoneos/Social_EventsTests.build/Objects-normal/arm64/Social_EventsTests

>ld: file not found: /Users/MacBookPro/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Social_Events-cfnteabiivwfdzcoulzznhmgobhy/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/Social_Events.app/Social_Events
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

>(null): File not found: /Users/MacBookPro/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Social_Events-cfnteabiivwfdzcoulzznhmgobhy/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/Social_Events.app/Social_Events

Answer 1

You might be getting this error because you renamed your project and Tests cannot be found anymore. This is easy to fix:

Solve it in Xcode like this:

1. Select your project from the project navigator.
2. Select [Your project's Tests] under targets
3. Under General tab change the Host Application from the drop down
4. Build and run.

This problem happened to me because I renamed my project and the tests could't find it anymore.