Phonegap build issues

I have had the worst two days.  Here I have my app, Notiffi, pretty much ready to go.  I have it set up in iTunes connect, ready to go.  I am ready for the last step in the process, archiving.  I hit Archive and BOOM.  Nothing.  Build works.  Debug works.  Archive does not work, and it still doesn’t as I’m writing this.  Also, suddenly I start getting linker errors like this when I was building it and so I couldn’t even check to see if the app worked any more.

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(null): "_OBJC_CLASS_$_CDVPlugin", referenced from:
(null): _OBJC_CLASS_$_ChildBrowserCommand in ChildBrowserCommand.o
(null): _OBJC_CLASS_$_PushNotification in PushNotification.o
(null): "_OBJC_CLASS_$_CDVViewController", referenced from:
(null): _OBJC_CLASS_$_MainViewController in MainViewController.o
(null): "_OBJC_METACLASS_$_CDVPlugin", referenced from:
(null): _OBJC_METACLASS_$_ChildBrowserCommand in ChildBrowserCommand.o
(null): _OBJC_METACLASS_$_PushNotification in PushNotification.o
(null): "_OBJC_CLASS_$_CDVPluginResult", referenced from:
(null): Objc-class-ref in PushNotification.o
(null): "_OBJC_METACLASS_$_CDVViewController", referenced from:
(null): _OBJC_METACLASS_$_MainViewController in MainViewController.o
(null): Symbol(s) not found for architecture armv7
(null): Linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

While Archiving (at the moment) still isn’t working I did find a way to get the linker errors to go away.  I presume that it was because of some incorrect paths in Xcode, but I’m a PHP, Java, HTML and JavaScript developer and so compiler issues on a Mac with Xcode are things that I know a lot about.  Linux?  Sure.  Mac/Xcode?  Not a bit.

But my workaround for this was relatively easy.  I removed CordovaLib as a subproject and built it separately.  Then I did find ./ -name libCordova.a on my home directory, created a new dir called /lib in my project and copied libCordova.a there.  I cleaned the project, rebuilt and and voila! it worked.

Now on to fix the Archiving problem.  For some reason I get this

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Command /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin/copypng emitted errors but did not return a nonzero exit code to indicate failure

and

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/Users/tk421/Documents/Notiffi/Notiffi/Plugins/ChildBrowserCommand.h:5:9: 'Cordova/CDVPlugin.h' file not found

Hopefully these will be easy issues

[UPDATE]

They were not easy issues. I basically created a brand new Cordova project and copied all of my source files in.  Clearly there was something wrong in my build configuration, but I don’t know what it was.