PhoneGap and Cordova upgrade to satisfy iOS8 64bit requirements

Using Phonegap and Cordova 3.3.1 for sometime I did not have any issue. However, after updating command line tools, Xcode and IOS simulator used to 7.1, I can no longer build a project even when creating from scratch.

I got about 12 errors, some related to plugins:

Ld /Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HelloWorld-dsvozgctlgpqhxgogbudpossnucy/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/HelloWorld.app/HelloWorld normal x86_64

    cd /Users/konstantinos/Development/phonegap/profileapp/platforms/ios

    export IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=6.0

    export PATH="/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/usr/bin:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"

    /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang -arch x86_64 -isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator8.1.sdk -L/Users/konstantinos/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HelloWorld-dsvozgctlgpqhxgogbudpossnucy/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator -F/Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HelloWorld-dsvozgctlgpqhxgogbudpossnucy/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator -filelist /Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HelloWorld-dsvozgctlgpqhxgogbudpossnucy/Build/Intermediates/HelloWorld.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/HelloWorld.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/HelloWorld.LinkFileList -Xlinker -objc_abi_version -Xlinker 2 -weak_framework CoreFoundation -weak_framework UIKit -weak_framework AVFoundation -weak_framework CoreMedia -weak-lSystem -force_load /Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HelloWorld-dsvozgctlgpqhxgogbudpossnucy/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/libCordova.a -ObjC -fobjc-arc -fobjc-link-runtime -Xlinker -no_implicit_dylibs -mios-simulator-version-min=6.0 -framework AssetsLibrary /Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HelloWorld-dsvozgctlgpqhxgogbudpossnucy/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/libCordova.a -framework CoreGraphics -framework MobileCoreServices -framework CoreLocation -Xlinker -dependency_info -Xlinker /Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HelloWorld-dsvozgctlgpqhxgogbudpossnucy/Build/Intermediates/HelloWorld.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/HelloWorld.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/HelloWorld_dependency_info.dat -o /Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HelloWorld-dsvozgctlgpqhxgogbudpossnucy/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/HelloWorld.app/HelloWorld



ld: warning: ignoring file /Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HelloWorld-dsvozgctlgpqhxgogbudpossnucy/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/libCordova.a, file was built for archive which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64): /Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HelloWorld-dsvozgctlgpqhxgogbudpossnucy/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/libCordova.a

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:

  "_CDVLocalNotification", referenced from:

      -[AppDelegate application:didReceiveLocalNotification:] in AppDelegate.o

  "_CDVPluginHandleOpenURLNotification", referenced from:

      -[AppDelegate application:handleOpenURL:] in AppDelegate.o

  "_OBJC_CLASS_$_CDVCommandDelegateImpl", referenced from:

      _OBJC_CLASS_$_MainCommandDelegate in MainViewController.o

  "_OBJC_CLASS_$_CDVCommandQueue", referenced from:

      _OBJC_CLASS_$_MainCommandQueue in MainViewController.o

  "_OBJC_CLASS_$_CDVViewController", referenced from:

      _OBJC_CLASS_$_MainViewController in MainViewController.o

  "_OBJC_METACLASS_$_CDVCommandDelegateImpl", referenced from:

      _OBJC_METACLASS_$_MainCommandDelegate in MainViewController.o

  "_OBJC_METACLASS_$_CDVCommandQueue", referenced from:

      _OBJC_METACLASS_$_MainCommandQueue in MainViewController.o

  "_OBJC_METACLASS_$_CDVViewController", referenced from:

      _OBJC_METACLASS_$_MainViewController in MainViewController.o

ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64

clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

...
ld: warning: ignoring file /Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/project/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libCordova.a, missing required architecture arm64 in file /Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/project/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/libCordova.a (2 slices)
Undefined symbols for architecture arm64:
  "_OBJC_CLASS_$_CDVPlugin", referenced from:
...

I then started by upgrading sole phonegap but with no result. Then, I had upgraded cordova to the last version, and created a new project and see that the problem has been disappeared.

Current versions at this time are:

$ sudo npm list -g phonegap
/usr/local/lib
└── phonegap 4.2.0-0.24.2 

$ sudo npm list -g cordova

/usr/local/lib

├── cordova@4.3.0 

└─┬ phonegap@4.2.0-0.24.2

  └── cordova@4.2.0 

I had also upgraded ios-sim to the last version (3.1.1 from 1.8.2) using:
sudo npm update -g ios-sim

as well as, just in the case, ios-deploy (1.4.0).

Moreover, according to the guidelines provided bellow, to upgrade and fix the issue, for your old projects, you may do the following:

npm install -g cordova
cd my_project
cordova platform update ios

Updating ios project...

iOS project updated with cordova-ios@3.8.0

Then your project will be ok.

References

Xcode 5.1 (5B130a) build errors
64-bit and iOS 8 Requirements for New Apps
iOS 64-bit Support Now Available on PhoneGap Build
iOS 64-bit apps in Cordova
Apache Cordova iOS 3.7.0