Xcode stuck on Indexing - xcode

Question

A project I've been working for 2 months stopped working for no reason because Xcode got stucked on "Indexing". I can't Build the project anymore. If I try to build, Xcode freezes and I have to force quit. This happens only with this project.
I tried cleaning all derived data but didn't help.
I'm using Xcode 4.5.2.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Open your Project Folder.
Find ProjectName.xcodeproj file.
Right-Click Copy and Paste to Safe Place.
Right-Click Show Package Contents.
Find project.xcworkspace file and delete that file.
Reopen Your Project and clean and Rebuild.
If your problem is not solved then replace the file with your backup file.

Answer 2

Close that project from Xcode
Open Xcode Organizer, find the problematic project
Delete Derived Data folder in the Organizer
Close/re-open Xcode
Nuking Derived Data is the first thing to try in all cases of Xcode misbehaving

Answer 3

I had this exact problem, it was caused by a 20 item array literal. Had to switch to different syntax. Pretty silly.

Answer 4

Close any opened Xcode
rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData
Right click your PROJECT_NAME.xcworkspace, choose 'show content', and delete 'xcuserdata' folder

Answer 5

Another thing to try if your trying to solve indexing issues and you're this far down the page!
Try adding this flag to your build settings.
-Xfrontend -warn-long-expression-type-checking=400
It will cause warning where the compiler take a long time to deduce a complex expression.
This may cause a build error which will go away after you find the slow expressions and then remove the build flag.

Answer 6

I had a similar problem, and found that I accidentally defined a class as its own subclass. I got no warning or error for this but the compiling got stuck.
class mainClass : mainClass
{
...
}

Answer 7

When using Xcode 6 and it says
Waiting for make
It might be that an instance of make is already running. Kill the process and indexing proceeds. Silly, but worked for me.

Answer 8

This happened to me. If you are using cocoapods do this:
Delete project.xcworkspace
Reinstall pods using pod install on the terminal
It will create a new project.xcworkspace
Open the new project.xcworkspace
-> Clean
-> Build

Answer 9

First, disconnect from network. Both your wired network and wireless network should turn off.
Second, kill the com.apple.dt.SourceKitService process. Then XCode would start to index again instead of stuck.

Answer 10

Hold alt > Product > Clean Build Folder

Answer 11

It's a Xcode bug (Xcode 8.2.1) and I've reported that to Apple, it will happen when you have a large dictionary literal or a nested dictionary literal. You have to break your dictionary to smaller parts and add them with append method until Apple fixes the bug.

Answer 12

For me completely closing out of Xcode and then restarting the project worked.
This is not the solution for the original question, I don't believe, but it is one more simple thing to try before deleting files and folders, etc. Credit to this answer for the idea.

Answer 13

I had a similar problem where Xcode would spend lots of time indexing and would frequently hang building the project, at which point I had to force-quit and relaunch Xcode. It was very annoying.
Then I noticed a warning in the project about improperly assigning self as a delegate. Sure enough, there was a missing protocol in the class declaration. Note that there is a similar assignment in the OP's sample code (though it is impossible to tell from the sample whether the correct protocol is declared):
leaderboardController.leaderboardDelegate == self;
After resolving that warning (by correctly declaring the implemented protocol), Xcode stopped misbehaving. Also, I should note that the project did execute correctly since the protocol methods were implemented. It was just that Xcode could not confirm that the protocol should in fact implemented by the class.

Answer 14

For me, I made a stupid mistake. I write a Class like this:
class A: A {
.......
}
A class inherit itself that causes the freezing. There is no message hint from Xcode.

Answer 15

Nothing worked for me, my project is too big (merging objective c, c++, swift, and java files with j2obj). I've disabled Xcode indexing and worked without code completion for months (and it's a pain). But finally I've found a workaround. The idea is to keep Xcode indexing the code, but to limit its CPU usage with an external tool like cputhrottle.
So first you need to install cputhrottle in terminal
brew install cputhrottle
Then limit the Xcode indexing process like this (20 = 20%)
sudo cputhrottle $(pgrep -f com.apple.dt.SKAgent) 20
I've exposed my "solution" here with mode details : How to prevent Xcode using 100% of CPU when indexing big projects

Answer 16

I'm working with Xcode 11.4.1 and I have the same problem with several projects. Every time, when internet connection is lost, indexing gets up. The best solution (it's just my opinion based on observing this problem):
- turn off internet and just kill the "com.apple...." process, then restart the Xcode(turn on connection)
or more easier
- just restart the Mac(with the internet)

Answer 17

Had similar problem in Xcode 6.4. The progress bar indicated that "Indexing" was "Paused". Tried deleting project.xcworkspace, then deleting Derived Data as described above. Did not appear to help. Noting that the posts above also suggest fixing warnings, and since I had inherited this huge project with 180 warnings, I said to myself, "What the hell this looks like a good day to fix warnings". As I was fixing warnings, a half hour later, I noticed that the "Indexing" progress bar had increased from 10% to about 20%. An hour later, it was at 50%, then another hour to 80%, then after another half hour it was done! Conclusion: Add "take a long lunch or a nap" to the above suggestions.

Answer 18

I experienced the same issue for Xcode 7.0 beta.
In my case, values for "Provisioning Profile" and "Product bundle identifier" of "Build Settings" differed between PROJECT and TARGETS.
I set the same values for them. And I also used the same values for TARGETS of "appName" and "appNameTest".
Then closed the project and reopened it.
That resolved my case.

Answer 19

In my case, deleting the derived data directory did not help. Apparently I had a file locked by another process, because after closing out a couple of terminal windows and emacs, and terminating a react-native packager process, everything resolved.

Answer 20

I have experienced this problem in some projects with Xcode 9.3.1 and in my case the problem is due to some swift code that for some reason Xcode doesn't like. This problem is hard to solve because is difficult to find what file is causing the problem.
When I have this problem, I removing some files from the Xcode project (removing references) and I try to test if indexing works. My process to do so
Remove some files
Close Xcode
Open Xcode
If indexing finish try to rename some method if works probably the files you have removed they have something strange for Xcode.
In my case I had a class definition with a reactive extension in the same file and for some reason Xcode doesn't like it, I moved the reactive extension to another file and now the indexing works fine.

Answer 21

2022 | Algorithm what to do:
Open activity monitor and kill there com.apple.dt.SKAgent
If did not help:
Close Xcode(cmd+Q). Run command in terminal:
rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData
If did not help:
Restart PC
If did not help:
Right click your PROJECT_NAME.xcworkspace, choose 'show content', and delete 'xcuserdata' folder
If did not help:
run your project build with additional warning. For doing this you need to write:
-Xfrontend -warn-long-expression-type-checking=100
to the following place:
and optimize code at all of places.
If did not help:
Z. Uninstall XCode and install it from scratch
If did not help:
Z+1. answer of El Belga https://stackoverflow.com/a/50541767/4423545

Answer 22

Also stop running app. if you have another application running with your xcode, stop it first and you should have your indexing continue.

Answer 23

For me, the cause was I opened the same file in both the Primary Editor and Assistant Editor at the same time. Once I closed Assistant Editor, it came through. (Xcode Version 7.2.1)

Answer 24

Close Your Xcode , close any git client(source tree or terminal)if it is opened and finally restart your project.

Answer 25

Faced this recently on XCode 7.3.1 - for me, I noticed RAM usage going to 100% on to CleanMyMac3. The problem magically fixed itself after I restarted my machine. In all fairness however, I'd already gone ahead and tried the accepted-answer, so you'll want to do the same before you restart just in case :-)

Answer 26

I fixed this by simply deleting the app from my device and rebuild.

Answer 27

I had the same issue in swift 2.2
It had to do with a generic function overloaded function
func warnLog() {
print("Warning line: \(#line) file: \(#file) ")
}
func warnLog<T>(input:T? = nil) -> T? {
print("Warning line: \(#line) file: \(#file) ")
return input
}
func warnLog<T>(input:T) -> T {
print("Warning line: \(#line) file: \(#file) ")
return input
}
all I needed to do is remove one of the non used overloads
func warnLog<T>(input:T? = nil) -> T? {
print("Warning line: \(#line) file: \(#file) ")
return input
}

Answer 28

My case: it was not the project.xcworkspace file, it was not the Derived Data folder.
I've wasted a lot of time. Worse, no error message. No clue on the part of Xcode. Absolutely lost.
Finally this function (with more than 10 parameters) is responsible.
func animationFrames(level: Float,
image: String,
frame0: String,
frame1: String,
frame2: String,
frame3: String,
frame4: String,
frame5: String,
frame6: String,
frame7: String,
frame8: String,
frame9: String,
frame10: String) {
}
To go crazy! The truth is that it is worrisome (because there is no syntax error, or any type)

Answer 29

For XCode 9.3 indexing issue - Uninstall the XCode and instal again from zero. Works for me.

Answer 30

This issue happened to me when my machine was out of swap space. Closed several programs and browser tabs and the build suddenly succeeded after 30 minutes of being stuck in place. Nothing to do with derived data, locked files, etc. on my side.