It seems something went wrong while linking. Error: Expected "/*" or ";" but "\"" found.

[LakshmananPonnusmay]

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[atkit]

@LakshmananPonnusmay can you provide description and steps to reproduce?

[Ehesp]

C'mon @LakshmananPonnusmay you need to give some more than that, you haven't even filled the issue template out.

Which lib is causing linking issues for a start?

[peterp]

@Ehesp @atkit I experienced this this morning; it was with react-native-fetch-blob

> react-native run ios
[...]
2017-04-21 15:33:14.006 xcodebuild[69189:4920661] Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "Unexpected character / at line 1" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Unexpected character / at line 1, kCFPropertyListOldStyleParsingError=Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "Missing ';' on line 1032" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Missing ';' on line 1032}}

The offending line in the xcodeproj:HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS = "$(inherited)""$(SRCROOT)/../node_modules/react-native-fetch-blob/ios/**";

Steps to reproduce

> npm install --save react-native-fetch-blog
> react-native link
> react-native run ios

[ncuillery]

@peterp See my comment here #13461 (comment)