Differential D5877
[Docs] Update nix docs to work with Xcode + iOS Authored by • jon on Dec 15 2022, 4:59 PM.
Details React Native will run This enables the developer run the build from Xcode, when following the nix Currently, the Nix environment would only succeed if ran from the command line Related to: This would be pretty involved, as it requires a clean environment. An already provisioned Steps:
I don't expect people to wipe their systems to test this, more that this would
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Event TimelineComment Actions See here – I don't think we need to ask the user to install Node 16. After the React Native / Expo updates, the path to Node should be saved when you run yarn, and the iOS build scripts should check that Node path and use it Comment Actions
On master, I'm unable to build the iOS app from Xcode just using the existing nix docs. I'll post error once I switch to m1 machine. But essentially it says: "Can't find node, please add to path, or set NODE_BINARY ". The problem is that Xcode nukes the environment for each build step, so it has to fallback to FHS / Homebrew paths. Just confirmed on m1, after doing yarn cleaninstall, cleaning build in Xcode, then attempting another build that it failed with previously mentioned error. Just to be clear, this doesn't seem to be an issue with yarn, which works fine from command line. But rather using Xcode + the react native script. According to the comments (and what you eluded to), the script seems to be deprecated, and likely not be needed in the future, but currently is needed for master to build. I'm fine with abandoning this diff if it will be obsolete soon. Comment Actions Also ran into expo-constants having a similar issue, which seems to have been fixed in the past few months, but we are still using older version. The expo update seems like the correct path forward. For the time being, I guess I'll just launch from command line yarn react-native run-ios ... |