others-how to solve No Xcode project found, please specify one error when doing pod init with cocoapods

Oct 15, 2020

Problem

When we do pod initialization with cocoapods in MacOS like this:

➜  ~ pod init

we get this error:

[!] No Xcode project found, please specify one

Environment

MacOS 10.14
Ruby 2.3.7p456 (2018-03-28 revision 63024) [universal.x86_64-darwin18]
Gem 2.5.2.3
Cocoapod 1.9.3

Reason

The pod init function expects the current director to contains the file: MyProject.xcodeproj, wherein the MyProject is your xcode project’s name.

Solution

You should change your current directory to the directory that contains the .xcodeproj file like this:


➜  MyProject git:(master) ls -l
drwxr-xr-x  10 xx  staff   320B 10  8 21:34 MyProject
drwxr-xr-x@  5 xx  staff   160B 10  8 21:19 MyProject.xcodeproj

➜  MyProject git:(master) pod init  
➜  MyProject git:(master) ✗ ll
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  10 xx  staff   320B 10  8 21:34 MyProject
drwxr-xr-x@  5 xx  staff   160B 10  8 21:19 MyProject.xcodeproj
-rw-r--r--   1 xx  staff   246B 10 11 07:51 Podfile


➜  MyProject git:(master) ✗ cat Podfile 
# Uncomment the next line to define a global platform for your project
# platform :ios, '9.0'

target 'MyProject' do
  # Comment the next line if you don't want to use dynamic frameworks
  use_frameworks!

  # Pods for MyProject

end

Ok, everything is done.