I have the same issue. I did a successful build a few months ago. I'm on 10.10.4 and Xcode Version 6.4 (6E35b). I did a git clone into a clean directory and followed the instructions (at
https://wiki.videolan.org/IOSCompile/ ) and I also get a build failure as shown above - here's the error
x harfbuzz-0.9.17/autogen.sh
x harfbuzz-0.9.17/README
x harfbuzz-0.9.17/ar-lib
x harfbuzz-0.9.17/configure.ac
x harfbuzz-0.9.17/compile
x harfbuzz-0.9.17/Makefile.in
[info] Building MobileVLCKit (Aggregate static plugins, Release)
[info] Building MobileVLCKit (MobileVLCKit, Release)
** BUILD FAILED **
The following build commands failed:
Libtool build/MobileVLCKit.build/Release-iphonesimulator/MobileVLCKit.build/Objects-normal/i386/libMobileVLCKit.a normal i386
Libtool build/MobileVLCKit.build/Release-iphonesimulator/MobileVLCKit.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/libMobileVLCKit.a normal x86_64