Creating a Pod, Cocoapods lint source_files issue

Question

I am creating a static library and I want to make a podspec so it can be included in other projects as well. To generate proper pod structure I used a command :

pod lib create <library_name>

It generated the following structure

• .podspec
• CHANGELOG.md
• Classes
• Project
• README.md
• Rakefile
• LICENSE

I created a new Xcode project inside the "projects" directory. I also added two files to the project called Test1.h and Test2.h and saved them inside classes directory. Plus I added, header search path variable to xCode project settings, "../Classes/" so the classes & headers in other directories are are seen by compiler. (Is there a way to have a group in Xcode such that all classes added to it, go to Classes directory, and compiler can see them automatically ?)

So now it looks like this

• .podspec
• CHANGELOG.md
• Classes
  • Test1.h
  • Test2.m
• Project
  • (folder)
  • .xcodeproj
  • Tests
  • Podfile
• README.md
• Rakefile
• LICENSE

In my podspec I have the following setting for source files

s.source_files = 'Classes/*.{h,m}'

But when I run :

pod spec lint .podspec

I get the following error :

• ERROR | The source_files pattern did not match any file.

Analyzed 1 podspec.

[!] The spec did not pass validation.

What is the issue here? I have been stuck on this for hours.

Answer 1

This was also driving me nuts for 'hours'. I then discovered that the files and tags must be present in the source git repo. So make sure you push your code and your tags to the remote repo...

Update:

You can also do a 'pod lib lint' to lint the local files not the git repo.