tns run ios fails on case-sensitive filesystem on macOS (possible typo)

[noumaans]

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When executing tns run ios, there are two subdirectories being created under platforms, called ios and iOS. The ios subdirectory contains most of the files, but the iOS (note the upper-case here) contains nativescript/nativescript.entitlements file.

Most probably somewhere in the code, the CLI is referring to ios and iOS directories with two different cases (upper and lower case). The issue will manifest itself only on macOS with drives partitioned with a case-sensitive filesystem.
This issue probably escaped since typically macOS partitions are not case-sensitive, and in case-sensitive filesystems prevalent on *nix people don't use tns run ios.

Here is the output from tns run ios:

Project successfully prepared (iOS)
Executing after-prepare hook from /Users/.../nativescript/hooks/after-prepare/nativescript-dev-sass.js
All SASS source files removed from app package
Building project...
Build settings from command line:
    ARCHS = i386 x86_64
    CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY = 
    CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR = /Users/.../nativescript/platforms/ios/build/emulator
    ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH = NO
    SDKROOT = iphonesimulator10.3
    SHARED_PRECOMPS_DIR = /Users/.../nativescript/platforms/ios/build/sharedpch
    VALID_ARCHS = i386 x86_64
=== BUILD TARGET nativescript OF PROJECT nativescript WITH CONFIGURATION Debug ===
Check dependencies
ProcessProductPackaging "" build/nativescript.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/nativescript.build/nativescript.app.xcent
    cd /Users/.../nativescript/platforms/ios
    export PATH="/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/usr/bin:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin:/Users/.../nativescript/node_modules/.bin"
    builtin-productPackagingUtility -entitlements -format xml -o /Users/.../nativescript/platforms/ios/build/nativescript.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/nativescript.build/nativescript.app.xcent
warning: Falling back to contents of entitlements file "nativescript.entitlements" because it was modified during the build process. Modifying the entitlements file during the build is unsupported.error: The file “nativescript.entitlements” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file.

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Error on tns run ios on case-sensitive macOS filesystem

Which platform(s) does your issue occur on?

iOS

Please provide the following version numbers that your issue occurs with:

• CLI: (run tns --version to fetch it)
  3.1.3

• Cross-platform modules: (check the 'version' attribute in the
  node_modules/tns-core-modules/package.json file in your project)
  "tns-core-modules": "3.1.1",
  "tns-core-modules-widgets": "3.1.1"
  "@types/node": "~7.0.5",

• Runtime(s): (look for the "tns-android" and "tns-ios" properties in the
  package.json file of your project)
  "tns-ios": {
  "version": "3.1.0"
  },
  "tns-android": {
  "version": "3.1.1"
  }

• Plugin(s): (look for the version number in the package.json file of your
  project)

Please tell us how to recreate the issue in as much detail as possible.

Execute tns run ios on a case-sensitive macOS partition.

Is there code involved? If so, please share the minimal amount of code needed to recreate the problem.

No.

[dtopuzov]

Hi @noumaans

This looks to be duplicate of #2946
We've already fixed it and the fix is available in nativescript@next.

Steps to try it:

npm un -g nativescript
npm cache clean
npm i -g nativescript@next

[dtopuzov]

@noumaans If you still encounter the issue with nativescript@next please let us know.

[noumaans]

Upgrading to nativescript@next revealed another issue (which was hidden for a few days).

There is a call in build process to ld but it will not execute since it is coded as Ld:

=== BUILD TARGET nativescript OF PROJECT nativescript WITH CONFIGURATION Debug ===
error: the following command failed with exit code 0 but produced no further output
Ld /Users/.../Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/nativescript-.../Build/Intermediates/nativescript.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/nativescript.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/nativescript normal x86_64

The error from Ld is (for obvious reasons) Ld: command not found

Thanks