What to do with “Linker Command failed with exit code 1” error in Xcode 8

One of those super ridiculous situations in which Xcode couldn’t be more unhelpful is if it tells you flat out: “Yeah erm… there’s an error here, but I’m not going to tell you where to start looking”. Other than the above error message, we see no log output or any further clue that may help us to investigate further.

Nice going, Xcode! You have such a dry sense of humour….

Lucky for us, there is a way to dig at least a little deeper by manually revealing what’s bugging Xcode: right-click the error message, and select reveal in log.

Now we can read the log file at our own leisure and see if we can make head or tail of it.

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