iOS build error: SDK "iphoneos4.2" cannot be located

afroninjadotcom · June 23, 2017, 5:16pm

I recently upgraded to haxe 3.3 from 3.1 on osx, to keep synced with my PC installation of openFL.

However now when I build for iOS I receive this error:
SDK “iphoneos4.2” cannot be located.

In particular it seems to show up when I run this command:
lime rebuild src/NativeSupport ios

I have to run that command before doing a full build to ensure that my extension is compiled correctly.
When updating haxe it moved the base installation directory from /usr/lib to /usr/local/lib so I’m not sure if that has anything to do with it at this point.

My issue seems related to this: Cannot build for IOS
though I am not building for simulator

I’m locked in to openfl 3.6.1, lime 2.9.1.
Also running xcode 7.2.1
This is a legacy project so I’m looking to update as little as possible to ensure that everything still builds.

singmajesty · June 23, 2017, 8:29pm

Haxe 3.2.1 should be more reliable than Haxe 3.3, but this issue appears to be one that was resolved in newer HXCPP releases, it was caused by this line:

github.com

HaxeFoundation/hxcpp/blob/4e2bf15e0167ca4a050305a5413456f2ec3cba5d/toolchain/finish-setup.xml#L85


<set name="HXCPP_IOS_STDCPP" value="1" unless="HXCPP_CPP11" if="iphonesim"/>
<set name="HXCPP_IOS_STDCPP" value="1" unless="HXCPP_CPP11" if="appletvos"/>
<set name="HXCPP_IOS_STDCPP" value="1" unless="HXCPP_CPP11" if="appletvsim"/>


<set name="DESTDIR" value="bin" />
<set name="DESTDIR" value="lib" if="static_link" unless="HXCPP_IOS_STDCPP"/>
<set name="NDLLDIR" value="ndll" />
<set name="NDLLDIR" value="lib" if="static_link" />




<!-- <set name="IPHONE_VER" value="4.2" unless="IPHONE_VER" /> -->


<set name="HXCPP_DEBUG_LINK" value="1" if="debug" unless="HXCPP_NO_DEBUG_LINK" />


<set name="HX_LINK_SUFFIX" value="${LIBEXTRA}" />
<set name="HX_TARGET_SUFFIX" value="${LIBEXTRA}" />
<set name="HX_TARGET_PREFIX" value="${LIBPREFIX}" />


<section if="isMsvc">
<section unless="HXCPP_M64">
   <set name="HXCPP_NO_WINXP_COMPAT" value="1" if="HX_WINRT || winrt" />

You could try commenting yours out, or using a newer HXCPP version

afroninjadotcom · June 23, 2017, 10:48pm

updating hxcpp did the trick. thanks!