Xcode build fails with "fatal error: malformed or corrupted AST file" Crashlytics.h Xcode build fails with "fatal error: malformed or corrupted AST file" Crashlytics.h xcode xcode

Xcode build fails with "fatal error: malformed or corrupted AST file" Crashlytics.h


First, try going to Product -> Clean menu in Xcode. Then rebuild when it finishes.

If that doesn't work, go to your [Name]-Prefix.pch file in the Supporting Files folder, and delete the #import line. Build. It will have errors, it's ok, now start typing it again and make sure to select the right choice from the drop-down suggest menu so it auto-fills the rest of the line for you. (This step worked for me).

Good luck! Love it when Xcode goes weird like this :)


I hit this issue after updating my version of Xcode via the Mac App Store.

After updating Xcode, the xcode-select Command Line Tools version of Xcode was still set to the old version. This was creating some kind of mismatch in xcodebuild.

I solved the issue like so:

  1. Xcode > Preferences > Command Line Tools. Select the newest Xcode version.
  2. Quit Xcode
  3. Delete the ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData directory.
  4. Run build script again. Success!

For SEO purposes, when I was hitting this issue I saw the following errors:

error: InputFile /Users/user/source/Your-PCH-Prefix.pch 0 1406772618 191 33188... malformed line 9; 'InputFile' should have exactly five arguments

Also:

xcodebuild[53039:5503] stream error: stream error at offset 29: created by an unsupported XCDependencyGraph buildxcodebuild[53039:4e0b] stream error: stream error at offset 29: created by an unsupported XCDependencyGraph build** BUILD FAILED **The following build commands failed:    Write auxiliary files    MappingModelCompile