Setting up cocoa pods with a react native project

Question

I've set up a fresh react native project, and instantiated a cocoa pod .xcworkspace doing:

cd ios
pod init 
pod install

I've then added a pod that I want to use (in this case being Buddybuild, although it doesn't really matter which pod i add, as the behavior is similar)

After I run pod install and include the header #import <BuddyBuildSDK/BuddyBuildSDK.h> in my AppDelegate.m , it is always returning me a /Users/nik/dev/myproject/ios/myproject/AppDelegate.m:14:9: 'BuddyBuildSDK/BuddyBuildSDK.h' file not found

I've battled with this all day and I have no idea why. The headers are all there in the Pods/headers/Public folder. They're being included in the header search paths in build settings as well as you can see here:

I'd highly appreciate help on this as I'm very stuck.

EDIT Also here's my Podfile:

i'm relatively positive. i ran all the appropriate commands. i mean, how can i check? — volk, Apr 18 '17 at 14:47
any framework results in a `SomeFramework/SomeFramework.h' file not found` — volk, Apr 18 '17 at 14:55
uncomment use_framework in your pod file and do pod install again. — Tushar Sharma, Apr 18 '17 at 16:25

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 18 '17 at 18:21

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Turns out the issue was an xcode thing. After much Googling the issue that solved it was making sure that my projects configurations were properly set. So going to Project -> Info -> Configurations And choosing the right Pods-projectName.debug and Pods-projectName.release configurations.

answered Apr 18 '17 at 18:21

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Are you using custom build configurations by any chance? I'm trying to get pods to work but it's not building them because the custom build configurations are using Release – SimonTheEngineer Feb 06 '18 at 16:31
@SimonTheEngineer I wasn't using any custom configurations. I wish I could help but this was long ago and I've long stopped working on that project :( Sorry – volk Jul 09 '18 at 21:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 05 '19 at 09:38

For RN 0.58.6 I noticed you don't need any react or react-native pods.

If you create a brand new project using react-native init (for 0.58.6) you will notice there is no need for a pod file.

My pod file looks like this:

platform :ios, '9.0'
project 'MyRNProject.xcodeproj'
install! 'cocoapods', :deterministic_uuids => false

target 'MyRNProject' do
  # Comment this line if you're not using Swift and don't want to use dynamic frameworks
  use_frameworks!

  # Add pods that you need here

  target 'MyRNProject' do
    inherit! :search_paths
    # Pods for testing
  end

end

In Project target Linked framework or libraries I have:

framework deps (CoreFoundation.framework, SystemConfiguration.framework Pods_MyRNProject.framework etc)
RCT and RN deps
other libs that I use

Setting up cocoa pods with a react native project

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