readlink -f added in XCode < 14.3 causes archiving error

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Unfortunately the fix with readlink -f (#123890) doesn't work for older Xcode/MacOS reporting error: readlink: illegal option -- f when trying to flutter build ipa. My env is:

[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.7.12, on macOS 12.0)
[✓] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS (Xcode 13.4.1)

It started to happen when I did flutter upgrade to the latest (from 3.7.7 or so).

To reproduce:

Test on the platform as above
Call flutter clean
Call flutter build ipa or precede it with flutter pub get (doesn't matter in fact)
After some time you get Encountered error while archiving for device. and a few rows above there's error message:

mkdir -p
/Users/rocket/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Runner-bvkptabgpblonedyoijtfiqcpvjk/Build/Intermediates.noindex/A
rchiveIntermediates/Runner/BuildProductsPath/Release-iphoneos/Runner.app/Frameworks
Symlinked...
readlink: illegal option -- f
usage: readlink [-n] [file ...]
Command PhaseScriptExecution failed with a nonzero exit code

Expected results

No errors when building archives. No -f flag added on XCode version < 14.3

Actual results

Building archive is broken with error message Encountered error while archiving for device. caused by the -f flag.

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mkdir -p
    /Users/rocket/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Runner-bvkptabgpblonedyoijtfiqcpvjk/Build/Intermediates.noindex/A
    rchiveIntermediates/Runner/BuildProductsPath/Release-iphoneos/Runner.app/Frameworks
    Symlinked...
    readlink: illegal option -- f
    usage: readlink [-n] [file ...]
    Command PhaseScriptExecution failed with a nonzero exit code
    note: Using new build system
    note: Planning
    note: Build preparation complete
    note: Building targets in dependency order

    Result bundle written to path:
        /var/folders/vr/480fjlkx2p35rdk07lgmc4z80000gn/T/flutter_tools.PAAjsj/flutter_ios_build_temp_dirsR80Xg/temporary_x
        cresult_bundle


Encountered error while archiving for device.

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I don't have Android and Chrome installed on this machine so not included in the doctor log.

[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.7.12, on macOS 12.0 21A5248p darwin-x64, locale en-PL)
    • Flutter version 3.7.12 on channel stable at /Users/rocket/Desktop/flutter/SDK/flutter
    • Upstream repository https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
    • Framework revision 4d9e56e694 (3 days ago), 2023-04-17 21:47:46 -0400
    • Engine revision 1a65d409c7
    • Dart version 2.19.6
    • DevTools version 2.20.1

[✓] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS (Xcode 13.4.1)
    • Xcode at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
    • Build 13F100
    • CocoaPods version 1.12.1

[✓] VS Code (version 1.76.0)
    • VS Code at /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents
    • Flutter extension version 3.54.0

[✓] Connected device (2 available)
    • iPhone 12 (mobile) • E8A448FD-2C4D-4A3E-BBFE-0A0D1B38FAB6 • ios        •
      com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimRuntime.iOS-15-5 (simulator)
    • macOS (desktop)    • macos                                • darwin-x64 • macOS 12.0 21A5248p
      darwin-x64

[✓] HTTP Host Availability
    • All required HTTP hosts are available

@rafaellop

Hi @rafaellop, please provide the full verbose output of flutter build ipa -v. The output may be huge, so kindly put it into a .txt/.log file or upload it to a service like pastebin so that we can trace the logs.

Thank

Here's the log from the flutter --verbose build ipa (I did it earlier)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/071sivciqffzhgd/log.txt?dl=0

Thanks for the logs.

Can you also share your podfile, podfile.lock & pubspec.yaml files?

Thank you

This isn't coming from Flutter, which explicitly doesn't add the flag unless you're running >= Xcode 14.3

flutter/packages/flutter_tools/lib/src/migrations/cocoapods_script_symlink.dart

Lines 36 to 40 in 5d3c1ca

    
           // If Xcode not installed or less than 14.3 with readlink behavior change, skip this migration. 
        
           if (version == null || version < Version(14, 3, 0)) { 
        
             logger.printTrace('Detected Xcode version is $version, below 14.3, skipping "readlink -f" workaround.'); 
        
             return; 
        
           }

This is coming from CocoaPods:
https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/releases/tag/1.12.1

Essentially CocoaPods 1.12.1 isn't compatible with Xcode 13.x if that doesn't understand the -f flag.

@rafaellop

@rafaellop I strongly suggest filing an issue with CocoaPods with reproduction steps.

The workaround from Flutter would be to figure out which Xcode version understands this flag and bump the minimum required to that.

So I did a test on a clean project in the same environment:

flutter create test
Added google_fonts: ^4.0.3 to the pubspec.yaml
Called flutter build ipa
Called open ios/Runner.xcworkspace

Finally checked in the XCode the Project Navigator -> Pods -> Targets Support Files -> Pods Runner -> Pods-Runner-frameworks file and it now contains readlink -f in the row 44. I suppose the -f shouldn't be there.

I also did another test and instead of the google_fonts package I added some random package (url_launcher) to the pubspec.yaml and the effect is exactly the same. After flutter build ipa the -f flag appears. flutter pub get before flutter build ipa has no effect on the flag appearance (the Pods section of the project is not yet created in the XCode).

I have same question😢.

MacOS big sur 11.7.6 with xcode 13.2.1.

mkdir -p /Users/Apple/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Runner-cvmzclsfhrthrpcxtfbbfpvtascf/Build/Intermediates.noindex/ArchiveIntermediates/Runner/BuildProductsPath/Release-iphoneos/Runner.app/Frameworks
Symlinked...
readlink: illegal option -- f
usage: readlink [-n] [file ...]
Command PhaseScriptExecution failed with a nonzero exit code

@rafaellop

flutter create test

Added google_fonts: ^4.0.3 to the pubspec.yaml

Called flutter build ipa

Called open ios/Runner.xcworkspace

Finally checked in the XCode the Project Navigator -> Pods -> Targets Support Files -> Pods Runner -> Pods-Runner-frameworks file and it now contains readlink -f in the row 44. I suppose the -f shouldn't be there.

The -f is coming from CocoaPods, not Flutter. @rafaellop did you file an issue with them? I don't see one.

flutter create test
Added google_fonts: ^4.0.3 to the pubspec.yaml
I am on macOS 13.3.1 so I wasn't able to open Xcode 13.4, but I am using its toolchain on the command line to flutter build ipa. I ran flutter build ipa --export-method development (because I don't have the bundle ID set up for the App Store) and it archived correctly.

I'm not sure what else we could do here other than bump the minimum Xcode version to 14.

I am going to bump the Flutter-enforced minimum version to Xcode 14. If you're seeing this:

I strongly suggest filing an issue with CocoaPods with reproduction steps.

Ideally they would add a workaround to this on their side but I don't see a single issue actually reporting it, so they may not even know.

Increase Xcode minimum version to 14 (#125639)

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readlink -f added in XCode < 14.3 causes archiving error #125286

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	// If Xcode not installed or less than 14.3 with readlink behavior change, skip this migration.
	if (version == null \|\| version < Version(14, 3, 0)) {
	logger.printTrace('Detected Xcode version is $version, below 14.3, skipping "readlink -f" workaround.');
	return;
	}

readlink -f added in XCode < 14.3 causes archiving error #125286

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