expo: [SDK 49][expo-updates][android] gradle plugin error on build when running on Windows

Patch fix for this issue (for expo-update@0.18.8)

diff --git a/node_modules/expo-updates/expo-updates-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/expo/modules/updates/ExpoUpdatesPlugin.kt b/node_modules/expo-updates/expo-updates-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/expo/modules/updates/ExpoUpdatesPlugin.kt
index 2d81db9..fa5454b 100644
--- a/node_modules/expo-updates/expo-updates-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/expo/modules/updates/ExpoUpdatesPlugin.kt
+++ b/node_modules/expo-updates/expo-updates-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/expo/modules/updates/ExpoUpdatesPlugin.kt
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ abstract class ExpoUpdatesPlugin : Plugin<Project> {
         }
 
         if (Os.isFamily(Os.FAMILY_WINDOWS)) {
-          it.commandLine("cmd", "/c", args)
+          it.commandLine("cmd", "/c", *args.toTypedArray())
         } else {
           it.commandLine(args)
         }

I am running into a similar issue on Mac after upgrading to Expo SDK 49 and react-native 0.72.4:

 ℹ️  Applying gradle plugin 'expo-updates-gradle-plugin' (expo-updates@0.18.12)

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring project ':app'.
> Cannot query the value of extension 'react' property 'entryFile' because it has no value available.

This issue doesn’t occur if I use expo-updates: “~0.16.4”, however then all my expo packages don’t seem to be linking correctly and they can’t compile.

I am using gradle-7.5.1 in gradle-wrapper.properties, because I was having similar compilation issues with expo 49 and gradle, and this was the only way I could get gradle to run.

distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5.1-all.zip

What worked for me was explicitly defining entryFile by uncommenting it in android/app/build.gradle file and then replacing it with the path of the index file which has the registerRootComponent expo method.

    //   The entry file for bundle generation. Default is 'index.android.js' or 'index.js'
    entryFile = file("../../index.js")

NOTE: make sure that the android/app/build.gradle is updated for react-native 0.72.4 as it should be wrapped by react configuration block. https://react-native-community.github.io/upgrade-helper/?from=0.71.13&to=0.72.4

It looks like for me PR https://github.com/expo/expo/pull/23983 brought regression and I have to patch fix also line 92 Current patch fix for expo-updates@0.18.12 which I used to successfully build local development build

diff --git a/node_modules/expo-updates/expo-updates-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/expo/modules/updates/ExpoUpdatesPlugin.kt b/node_modules/expo-updates/expo-updates-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/expo/modules/updates/ExpoUpdatesPlugin.kt
index 6cd4226..b010ebb 100644
--- a/node_modules/expo-updates/expo-updates-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/expo/modules/updates/ExpoUpdatesPlugin.kt
+++ b/node_modules/expo-updates/expo-updates-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/expo/modules/updates/ExpoUpdatesPlugin.kt
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ abstract class ExpoUpdatesPlugin : Plugin<Project> {
         }
 
         if (Os.isFamily(Os.FAMILY_WINDOWS)) {
-          it.commandLine("cmd", "/c", args)
+          it.commandLine("cmd", "/c", *args.toTypedArray())
         } else {
           it.commandLine(args)
         }
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ abstract class ExpoUpdatesPlugin : Plugin<Project> {
       project.exec {
         val args = listOf(*nodeExecutableAndArgs.get().toTypedArray(), "-e", "console.log(require('path').dirname(require.resolve('expo-updates/package.json')));")
         if (Os.isFamily(Os.FAMILY_WINDOWS)) {
-          it.commandLine("cmd", "/c", args)
+          it.commandLine("cmd", "/c", *args.toTypedArray())
         } else {
           it.commandLine(args)
         }

@weykon were you able to build successfully without patch fix on line 92 after upgrade to expo-update@0.18.12?

+1

Patch fix for this issue

diff --git a/node_modules/expo-updates/expo-updates-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/expo/modules/updates/ExpoUpdatesPlugin.kt b/node_modules/expo-updates/expo-updates-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/expo/modules/updates/ExpoUpdatesPlugin.kt
index 2d81db9..fa5454b 100644
--- a/node_modules/expo-updates/expo-updates-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/expo/modules/updates/ExpoUpdatesPlugin.kt
+++ b/node_modules/expo-updates/expo-updates-gradle-plugin/src/main/kotlin/expo/modules/updates/ExpoUpdatesPlugin.kt
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ abstract class ExpoUpdatesPlugin : Plugin<Project> {
         }
 
         if (Os.isFamily(Os.FAMILY_WINDOWS)) {
-          it.commandLine("cmd", "/c", args)
+          it.commandLine("cmd", "/c", *args.toTypedArray())
         } else {
           it.commandLine(args)
         }

it worked with #23983 code !

even after installing expo-updates still getting same error. Tried this solution as well. Can anyone update on this?

It appears that this is fixed in https://github.com/expo/expo/pull/23983 .

@Kudo

@RicardoBrito1938 Can you paste the command you are running? It looks like issue is in command you are running than some build level error

Yes , sure, here it it

npx expo prebuild --clean

cd android

./gradlew clean

./gradlew assembleRelease --stacktrace --debug

These are the local commands I run to get the same error eas is triggering

@RicardoBrito1938 Can you paste the command you are running? It looks like issue is in command you are running than some build level error

Hey guys, i got build failed but it happened with this message

“> Task :app:createBundleReleaseJsAndAssets FAILED Unknown or unexpected option: --platform”