react-native: React Native fails to start on Apple Chip M2 with macOS Monterey 12.4

Description

Hi,

I currently need to build an app and I chose RN in order to work on cross platform (iOS and Android). I never had issues before working with RN before upgrading to the Apple M series chipset.

I followed some commands to install all the packages needed to start working on my app following this guide, but I am getting the following error after running npx react-native run-ios.

Failed to build iOS project. We ran "xcodebuild" command but it exited with error code 65. To debug build logs further, consider building your app with Xcode.app, by opening AwesomeApp.xcodeproj.

I have tried multiple solutions from other “open issues”, but I couldn’t manage to resolve the issue and I would get even more issues by following some proposed solutions from other GitHub users.

Here are my versions:

npm: 9.5.1
node: v19.8.1
pod: 1.12.0
gem: 3.0.3.1
react-native: 0.71.6
npx: 9.5.1
Brew: Homebrew 4.0.10-dirty

My computer specs:

macOS Monterey: 12.4
Chipset: Apple M2

I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how I can fix this error. Are there any issues with the versions of the packages?

React Native Version

0.71.6

Output of `npx react-native info`

System: OS: macOS 12.4 CPU: (8) arm64 Apple M2 Memory: 598.59 MB / 16.00 GB Shell: 5.8.1 - /bin/zsh Binaries: Node: 19.8.1 - /opt/homebrew/bin/node Yarn: 1.22.19 - /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn npm: 9.5.1 - /opt/homebrew/bin/npm Watchman: 2023.03.27.00 - /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman Managers: CocoaPods: 1.12.0 - /opt/homebrew/bin/pod SDKs: iOS SDK: Platforms: DriverKit 21.4, iOS 15.5, macOS 12.3, tvOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5 Android SDK: Not Found IDEs: Android Studio: 2021.2 AI-212.5712.43.2112.8815526 Xcode: 13.4.1/13F100 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild Languages: Java: 19.0.1 - /usr/bin/javac npmPackages: @react-native-community/cli: Not Found react: 18.2.0 => 18.2.0 react-native: 0.71.6 => 0.71.6 react-native-macos: Not Found npmGlobalPackages: react-native: Not Found

Steps to reproduce

sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin ffi cocoapods
npx react-native init MyProject
cd MyProject
npm start

(open another Terminal window in the MyProject directory)

npm run ios

Snack, code example, screenshot, or link to a repository

https://github.com/georgeka98/react-native-issue.git

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created a year ago
Comments: 17 (3 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

@georgeka98 Since you don’t have a Pods folder, I bet you haven’t installed dependencies of the iOS project. I suggest you Install cocoapods, and then cd to ios path then use pod install to install dependencies for the iOS project. I assume this should work because the issue is just a lack of dependencies. 😂

bruceeewong on May 7, 2023

It looks like something funky is going in your app/awesomeProject/ios/Pods.

remove the contents of that /Pods directory,
follow the if you’re having trouble with iOS to rebuild the contents of that folder
rebuild with npm run ios

blakef on Apr 6, 2023