I am working on a Mac, M1 chip. I was working in React Native, when something happened with my system’s configurations while trying to get the Android Build to work. No npm, npx, (any node commands really) worked, I couldn’t do anything with my Pods, and essentially just everything was broken. I deleted and uninstalled everything to do with Node, Java, and Cocoapods but the issue I’m facing now is that I cannot install CocoaPods
I am following the directions from here and I am on my third try to just start a new React App. The Project will build, but I cannot install any pods and the whole app seems to not know that its supposed to be running off React as it won’t let me use imported components.
So I have a plethora of issues in front of me, but the biggest is my inability to install CocoaPods.
I run…
brew install CocoaPods
and get the following return…
Warning: cocoapods 1.11.3 is already installed and up-to-date.
But upon running npx react-native init I get the following error…
error Error: Failed to install CocoaPods dependencies for iOS project, which is required by this template.
So I tried as I was instructed, and attempted to run…
sudo arch -x86_64 gem install ffi
Which gives me this…
make install failed, exit code 2
And since that fails, I cannot successfully run…
arch -x86_64 pod install
So it looks like my code is breaking before I can even type a single line. I’ve been trying to just create a new React Project for hours now… this seems very overly complicated
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Answers
Update your ruby to recent version, for that you can use
rbenvviahomebrew. After that install cocoapods viagem installThere must have been some sort of corruption or only partially installed dependency. I ended up wiping my hard drive and restoring everything, it worked after that