Pods not installing properly

Question

I had been installing pods and the pods get installed properly . However , in the Project navigator , the .xcconfig files are red in color and I cannot set the same in the project-> info -> configurations either as they don't get listed and only none is listed. When debugged , I could find that the .xcconfig files were getting accessed by the xcode in the following path

/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/xxxxxxxxxx/Documents/xxxxxxxx/app/Pods/Pods/Target Support Files/Pods-broadcastuploadSetupUI/Pods-broadcastuploadSetupUI.release.xcconfig

/Pods is there twice , Because of which I am getting the following errors :

diff: /Podfile.lock: No such file or directory
diff: /Manifest.lock: No such file or directory
error: The sandbox is not in sync with the Podfile.lock. Run 'pod install' or update your CocoaPods installation.

I am working with Xcode 9 beta . Can anyone kindly help ?

PS , I have tried sudo gem install , pod update , disintegrate , install and everything that is available on the internet as a solution. I'd be glad if anyone could help

This is my podfile :

#platform :ios, ‘11.0’
source 'https://URL_TO_ACCESS_PODSPEC_FOR_POD'
source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'


target 'app' do
pod 'objective-zip', '~> 1.0'
pod 'AssistScreenShareKit'
use_frameworks!
end

target ‘broadcastupload’ do
    pod 'AssistScreenShareKit'
use_frameworks!
end

target ‘broadcastuploadSetupUI' do
pod 'AssistScreenShareKit'
use_frameworks!
end

Error :

The file “Pods-app.release.xcconfig” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file. (/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/xxxxxxxx/Documents/xxxxx/app/Pods/Pods/Target Support Files/Pods-app/Pods-app.release.xcconfig)

Answer 1

Steps to install pod

1. Open a terminal window, and $ cd into your project directory.
2. To create a Podfile you need to to run $ pod init.
3. Open your Podfile. The first line should specify the platform and version supported.

  platform :ios, '9.0' use_frameworks! target 'yourProjectName' do pod 'Alamofire' end 

4. Then install the pod

pod install

Answer 2

First delete all pods and Podfile.lock

1. open terminal and go to folder path

2. Edit your podfile by this

   platform :ios, '8.0' use_frameworks! target 'MyApp' do //add your all pods end
   

3. pod install

4. close xcode and open MyApp.xcworkspace file

check for more: Command-line Reference

This will help you.

Answer 3

update your Cocoapods version, I had this problem with Cocoapods 1.5.3 and it was fixed in 1.6.1

to do that open terminal and just type gem install cocoapods