Report What did you do? run pod install What did you expect to happen? Firebase pods installing correctly What happened instead? CocoaPods states an LoadError giving out the reason: Image not found LoadError - dlopen(/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.15.0/lib/ffi_c.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: @rpath/libffi.7.dylib Referenced from: /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.15.0/lib/ffi_c.bundle Reason: image not found - /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.15.0/lib/ffi_c.bundle CocoaPods Environment Stack CocoaPods : 1.10.1 Ruby : ruby 2.6.3p62 (2019-04-16 revision 67580) [universal.x86_64-darwin20] RubyGems : 3.0.3 Host : macOS 11.2.3 (20D91) Xcode : 12.4 (12D4e) Git : git version 2.24.3 (Apple Git-128) Ruby lib dir : /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib Repositories : Plugins cocoapods-deintegrate : 1.0.4 cocoapods-plugins : 1.0.0 cocoapods-search : 1.0.0 cocoapods-trunk : 1.5.0 cocoapods-try : 1.2.0 Podfile ruby Uncomment the next line to define a global platform for your project platform :ios, '9.0' target 'CocoapodsTest' do Comment the next line if you don't want to use dynamic frameworks use_frameworks! Pods for CocoapodsTest pod 'Firebase/Core' pod 'Firebase/Auth' pod 'Firebase/Database' target 'CocoapodsTestTests' do inherit! :search_paths Pods for testing end target 'CocoapodsTestUITests' do Pods for testing end end Error LoadError - dlopen(/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.15.0/lib/ffi_c.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: @rpath/libffi.7.dylib Referenced from: /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.15.0/lib/ffi_c.bundle Reason: image not found - /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.15.0/lib/ffi_c.bundle /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.15.0/lib/ffi.rb:6:in `rescue in top (required)' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.15.0/lib/ffi.rb:3:in `top (required)' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ethon-0.12.0/lib/ethon.rb:2:in `top (required)' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/typhoeus-1.4.0/lib/typhoeus.rb:2:in `top (required)' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/sources_manager.rb:74:in `cdn_url?' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/sources_manager.rb:36:in `create_source_with_url' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/sources_manager.rb:21:in `find_or_create_source_with_url' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer/analyzer.rb:178:in `block in sources' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer/analyzer.rb:177:in `map' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer/analyzer.rb:177:in `sources' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer/analyzer.rb:1073:in `block in resolve_dependencies' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/user_interface.rb:64:in `section' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer/analyzer.rb:1072:in `resolve_dependencies' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer/analyzer.rb:124:in `analyze' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer.rb:414:in `analyze' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer.rb:239:in `block in resolve_dependencies' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/user_interface.rb:64:in `section' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer.rb:238:in `resolve_dependencies' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer.rb:160:in `install!' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/command/install.rb:52:in `run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/claide-1.0.3/lib/claide/command.rb:334:in `run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/command.rb:52:in `run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/bin/pod:55:in `top (required)' /usr/local/bin/pod:23:in `load' /usr/local/bin/pod:23:in `main' Tried Fixes I've tried some possible fixes found in this issue page. When running: sudo arch -x86_64 gem install ffi the output will be: Building native extensions. This could take a while... Successfully installed ffi-1.15.0 Parsing documentation for ffi-1.15.0 Done installing documentation for ffi after 3 seconds 1 gem installed When running: sudo gem install ffi the output will be: Building native extensions. This could take a while... Successfully installed ffi-1.15.0 Parsing documentation for ffi-1.15.0 Done installing documentation for ffi after 3 seconds 1 gem installed Note: The terminal is checked as: Open with Rosetta