diff --git a/cocoapods/NJSHeaderOnly.mm b/cocoapods/NJSHeaderOnly.mm
deleted file mode 100644
index b92186050..000000000
--- a/cocoapods/NJSHeaderOnly.mm
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-// We need this file to please cocoapods as cocoapods
-// doesn't support pure C++ libraries. We need mm so
-// cocoapods enables Objective-C++
-
-int NJSHeaderOnly() {
-    return 42;
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/cocoapods/NSJHeaderOnlyObjc.m b/cocoapods/NSJHeaderOnlyObjc.m
deleted file mode 100644
index 391624f06..000000000
--- a/cocoapods/NSJHeaderOnlyObjc.m
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-// cocoapods is weird we also need this.
-
-int NSJHeaderOnlyObjc() {
-    return 42;
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/nlohmann_json.podspec b/nlohmann_json.podspec
index b56586a23..f0a347540 100644
--- a/nlohmann_json.podspec
+++ b/nlohmann_json.podspec
@@ -96,9 +96,7 @@ Pod::Spec.new do |s|
   #  Not including the public_header_files will make all headers public.
   #
 
-  s.source_files  = "cocoapods/**/*.{h,m,mm}", "single_include/**/*.hpp"
-  s.exclude_files = "Classes/Exclude"
-
+  s.source_files  = "single_include/**/*.hpp"
   s.public_header_files = "single_include/nlohmann/json.hpp"