React Native pod install failed on Apple Silicon (M1)

Question

I got my new Macbook Pro which has M1 chip.

I tried to run my react native project but stucked on pod install.

After that, I created an empty project and tried on that still getting the same error.

### Command

```
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/bin/pod install
```

### Report

* What did you do?

* What did you expect to happen?

* What happened instead?


### Stack

```
   CocoaPods : 1.10.1
        Ruby : ruby 2.6.3p62 (2019-04-16 revision 67580) [universal.arm64e-darwin20]
    RubyGems : 3.0.3
        Host : macOS 11.0.1 (20B29)
       Xcode : 12.4 (12D4e)
         Git : git version 2.24.3 (Apple Git-128)
Ruby lib dir : /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib
Repositories : 
```

### Plugins

```
cocoapods-deintegrate : 1.0.4
cocoapods-plugins     : 1.0.0
cocoapods-search      : 1.0.0
cocoapods-trunk       : 1.5.0
cocoapods-try         : 1.2.0
```

### Podfile

```ruby
require_relative '../node_modules/react-native/scripts/react_native_pods'
require_relative '../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-ios/native_modules'

platform :ios, '10.0'

target 'temp2' do
  config = use_native_modules!

  use_react_native!(:path => config["reactNativePath"])

  target 'temp2Tests' do
    inherit! :complete
    # Pods for testing
  end

  # Enables Flipper.
  #
  # Note that if you have use_frameworks! enabled, Flipper will not work and
  # you should disable these next few lines.
  use_flipper!
  post_install do |installer|
    flipper_post_install(installer)
  end
end

target 'temp2-tvOS' do
  # Pods for temp2-tvOS

  target 'temp2-tvOSTests' do
    inherit! :search_paths
    # Pods for testing
  end
end
```

### Error

```
LoadError - dlopen(/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.14.2/lib/ffi_c.bundle, 0x0009): missing compatible arch in /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.14.2/lib/ffi_c.bundle - /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.14.2/lib/ffi_c.bundle
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.14.2/lib/ffi.rb:6:in `rescue in <top (required)>'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.14.2/lib/ffi.rb:3:in `<top (required)>'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ethon-0.12.0/lib/ethon.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/typhoeus-1.4.0/lib/typhoeus.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/sources_manager.rb:74:in `cdn_url?'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/sources_manager.rb:36:in `create_source_with_url'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/sources_manager.rb:21:in `find_or_create_source_with_url'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer/analyzer.rb:178:in `block in sources'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer/analyzer.rb:177:in `map'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer/analyzer.rb:177:in `sources'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer/analyzer.rb:1073:in `block in resolve_dependencies'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/user_interface.rb:64:in `section'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer/analyzer.rb:1072:in `resolve_dependencies'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer/analyzer.rb:124:in `analyze'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer.rb:414:in `analyze'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer.rb:239:in `block in resolve_dependencies'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/user_interface.rb:64:in `section'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer.rb:238:in `resolve_dependencies'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/installer.rb:160:in `install!'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/command/install.rb:52:in `run'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/claide-1.0.3/lib/claide/command.rb:334:in `run'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/lib/cocoapods/command.rb:52:in `run'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/gems/cocoapods-1.10.1/bin/pod:55:in `<top (required)>'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/bin/pod:23:in `load'
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/cocoapods/1.10.1/libexec/bin/pod:23:in `<main>'
```

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After I make research about this topic I found several solutions but still my problem is not solved.

I already tried to install

sudo gem install ffi

and then tried pod install again. Still getting same error.

After that according to my research some people said to use terminal with rosetta or the another way to rosetta,

sudo arch -x86_64 gem install ffi
arch -x86_64 pod install

with these Intel based installation try I'm getting below error:

Analyzing dependencies
Fetching podspec for `DoubleConversion` from `../node_modules/react-native/third-party-podspecs/DoubleConversion.podspec`
Fetching podspec for `Folly` from `../node_modules/react-native/third-party-podspecs/Folly.podspec`
Fetching podspec for `glog` from `../node_modules/react-native/third-party-podspecs/glog.podspec`
[!] Couldn't determine repo type for URL: `https://cdn.cocoapods.org/`: Invalid ABI specified

Did somebody faced with this problem? What I'm doing wrong or what I need to do to run my project?

score 12 · Answer 1 · answered May 27 '21 at 08:30

12

for homebrew users

step 1 brew install cocoapods step 2 sudo arch -x86_64 gem install ffi step 3 arch -x86_64 pod install

fixed my issue

answered May 27 '21 at 08:30

Syed Amir Ali

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This answer saved my 2 days. This worked for me 10000% perfectly. Thank you very much – SatelBill Mar 02 '22 at 21:42
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Does this mean .. I will need to use `arch -x86_64 pod install` every time i want to do `pod install` in the future? – Aung Myint Thein Jun 19 '22 at 02:54
yes @AungMyintThein but there is another solution for this use rosetta terminal – Syed Amir Ali Jul 21 '22 at 15:05

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered May 27 '21 at 13:38

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My problem with ffi resolved with just brew install cocoapods =)

Firstly I tried to install from bundler and there was a specific old version of cocoapods which didn't support m1 yet; then I used brew and now with the latest cocoapods it works fine

answered May 27 '21 at 13:38

Scvairy

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This should be the accepted answer, because it preserves the ability to use homebrew. I didn't try the accepted answer because I didn't want to completely scrap homebrew just for the sake of RN so I don't know if it works, but this _did_ work for me. – noisiveRevision Oct 22 '21 at 20:04

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 30 '21 at 12:21

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This resource helped me: https://www.lopau.com/error-running-cocoapod-pod-install-on-big-sur-with-ffi/

Run sudo gem inst ffi -- --disable-system-libffi

answered Mar 30 '21 at 12:21

Royalty

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This worked successfully for me while running pod update when upgrading react native .64 to .65 – Before The Empire Dec 15 '21 at 21:55

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 19 '21 at 01:16

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My problem was installing cocoapods with gem (which most tutorials online will tell you). Try uninstalling cocoapods with the following command:

gem uninstall cocoapods

Then install it again using brew

brew install cocoapods

homebrew installed the arm64 version, while gem seems to default to something else.

answered Nov 19 '21 at 01:16

TheDuDe

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Thank you, for me this is the correct way and the best! – Mike Vargas Mar 17 '22 at 22:48

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '21 at 18:25

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I realized that homebrew installation messed up cocoapods.

Simply, I uninstalled homebrew and start from beginning. Then it worked.

answered Jan 31 '21 at 18:25

Alexander Chef

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 01 '22 at 05:20

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this worked for me: (M1 Pro)

arch -x86_64 sudo gem install cocoapods
arch -x86_64 pod repo update
arch -x86_64 pod install

sources: https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/10349

answered Feb 01 '22 at 05:20

Rajesh N

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 16 '21 at 17:27

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I faced the same issue on M1 chip MacBook. Finally did the below

In rosetta terminal :

-- sudo rm -rf ~/.cocoapods/repos

Inside iOS folder

pod install

answered Aug 16 '21 at 17:27

ABM

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 19 '21 at 18:30

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the solution for me was to init the app like this

arch -x86_64 npx react-native init awsomeproject

answered Sep 19 '21 at 18:30

Blue

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Nov 25 '21 at 08:19

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Install the latest version of Xcode from App Store, and then run these two commands in the Terminal:

sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
sudo xcodebuild -runFirstLaunch

answered Nov 25 '21 at 08:19

AmerllicA

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Mar 30 '22 at 10:19

In my case the problem was that CocoaPod flipper was out of date. The change in the pod file from

 use_flipper()!

to

use_flipper!({ 'Flipper' => '0.95.0', 'Flipper-Folly' => '2.6.7', 'Flipper-RSocket' => '1.4.3', 'Flipper-DoubleConversion' => '3.1.7', 'Flipper-Glog' => '0.3.9', 'Flipper-PeerTalk' => '0.0.4' })

helped me.

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Mar 31 '22 at 11:03

Mac M1 architecture is not directly compatible with Cocoapods. If you encounter issues when installing pods, you can solve it by running:

sudo arch -x86_64 gem install ffi
arch -x86_64 pod install

These commands install the ffi package, to load dynamically-linked libraries and let you run the pod install properly, and runs pod install with the proper architecture.

score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Sep 11 '22 at 09:22

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For me, this command worked

arch -x86_64 pod install

answered Sep 11 '22 at 09:22

Md. Robi Ullah

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React Native pod install failed on Apple Silicon (M1)

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