Pods was rejected as an implicit dependency for 'libPods.a' because its architectures 'XXX' didn't contain all required architectures

A friend updated Cocoapods in our project. When I pulled the latest stuff from git I got the following error:

Pods was rejected as an implicit dependency for 'libPods.a' because its architectures 'x86_64' didn't contain all required architectures 'i386'

This results in

ld: library not found for -lPods-___PODLIBRARY____
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

I have searched around for hours now trying to find it. The most common fixes I've tried are..

Deleted derived data
Delete build data
Delete pods, and reinstalled with 'pod install'
Clean project
All of the above at the same time
Experimented with 'Build Active Architecture Only', both in our project and in Pod Project. Inserted armv7 and armv7s as hard code instead of $ variable
Experimented with 'Architectures', both in our project and in Pod Project. Inserted armv7 and armv7s as hard code instead of $ variable

We are aiming for iOS 8, iPhones.

My friend got it to work by combining the first 4 options, but I cannot.

Does anyone have any suggestions? We're supposed to release before christmas so production time is precious :D

Solution 1:

Try to set Build Active Architecture Only to NO for 'Pods' project and your app's target

For me, what worked was to change the CocoaPod project "Base SDK" to "Latest iOS".

Try to run the project first on an iPhone 4s in simulator and after that it should work.

What fixed this problem for me was precisely the opposite of the most voted answer:

"Build Active Architecture Only" set to "YES"

both in main target and Pods target + Debug and Release