'React-Native: Error: Failed to install CocoaPods dependencies for iOS project, which is required by this template

While executing npx react-native init MyProject I ran into the following error:

✖ Installing CocoaPods dependencies (this may take a few minutes)
error Error: Failed to install CocoaPods dependencies for iOS project, which is required by this template.

Which seems to be related to an earlier error displayed:

checking for arm-apple-darwin-gcc... /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/cc -arch armv7 -isysroot 
checking whether the C compiler works... no
xcrun: error: SDK "iphoneos" cannot be located
xcrun: error: SDK "iphoneos" cannot be located
xcrun: error: SDK "iphoneos" cannot be located
xcrun: error: unable to lookup item 'Path' in SDK 'iphoneos'

XCode and its CLI seem to all run fine.

My configuration:

MacOS Catalina 10.15.1 (19B88)
NPM 6.11.3
React-Native 0.61.4
XCode 11.2.1 (11B500)

Any leads appreciated.

Solution 1:^[1]

Unfortunately the selected answer didn't work for me. I have Mac OS Catalina 10.15.4, and I have latest version of xcode Version 11.0 (11A420a). I found some suggestions to reinstall cocopods using homebrew or gem, and at first it didn't work for me, but using it as in below command worked perfectly.

sudo gem install cocoapods -n/usr/local/bin

Solution 2:^[2]

Ali Shirazee's solution worked well for me (thanks!).

After running:

npx react-native init myAppName --template react-native-template-typescript

I got the error:

error Error: Failed to install CocoaPods dependencies for iOS project, which is required by this template.
Please try again manually: "cd ./myAppName/ios && pod install". CocoaPods documentation: https://cocoapods.org/

Then I went into the folder and ran pod install as suggested in the error message but still got an error during the installation of Flipper-Glog.

Finally, I've opened Xcode, went into Preferences » Location and selected Xcode 11 from the Command Line Tools select list.

Xcode » Preferences » Location

After that, I simply ran pod install again and it all worked.

Solution 3:^[3]

I had this issue because I got a new M1 mac, and I found a solution based on this github issue answer and this stackoverflow answer

Everything seemed to start working when I installed the ffi gem with the terminal running in Rosetta

Solution 4:^[4]

I resolved this issue,

The situation with me was I recently bought a new mac and installed Xcode along with my development environment.

However I forgot to configure the Xcode command line tools, when I resolved it worked fine.

so follow these simple steps (refer to the screen shot).

Xcode > Preferences > Locations

on the command line tools select the option, in my case it was Xcode 11.7 (11....)

please note that i had deleted and reinstalled brew, cocoapods and node and it did not work until configured Xcode.

please refer to the screenshot.

then run sudo npx react-native init yourProjectName

Solution 5:^[5]

What worked for me on my Mac M1 machine was:

Before hand, download Xcode.

First: I went to the Applications through Finder and clicked into the Utilities folder. Inside the folder, I right clicked the Terminal icon and clicked Get Info from the popup. After, another popup should have appeared and I checked the box, Open using Rosetta.

Next, I did the same with Xcode. I went into the Applications folder, right clicked the Xcode icon, and checked Open using Rosetta

After I went into the terminal and copied in these commands:

sudo gem install cocoapods

Finally,

sudo gem install ffi

Afterwards I ran:

npx react-native init HelloRN

And I did not get an error.

Hopes this helps!

Solution 6:^[6]

Update repo then reinstall:

$ pod repo update

$ pod install

Solution 7:^[7]

In my case, the link between homebrew and cocoapods had broken I'm guessing during the catalina upgrade.

Following command fixed it: brew link --overwrite cocoapods

Solution 8:^[8]

This was also not working for me. I have tried every answer given in this thread and none of them worked for me. I was trying on Intel Mac not the Apple Silicon Mac

If similar thing happens to anyone else then try this.

sudo gem install cocoapods

Solution 9:^[9]

Make sure you don't have empty space in any folder names leading to your project directory (example 'My Documents'). Its simple, but this is how i fixed the error.

Solution 10:^[10]

For myself non of the above worked apart from this one which seemed to install a lot of missing Flipper kits and some other missing dependencies -

 pod install --repo-update

Solution 11:^[11]

"brew install cocoapods" worked for me. I'am using M1 14"

Solution 12:^[12]

In my case, the problem was because I haven't cocoapods installed.

brew install cocoapods

This solved my problem.

Solution 13:^[13]

After using the command from the selected message, I got the following error:

[!] Error installing Flipper-PeerTalk
[!] /usr/bin/git clone https://github.com/priteshrnandgaonkar/peertalk.git /var/folders/hw/0fc3vqbn4t34rk73tk1r9lwr0000gn/T/d20201016-18847-1n36woh --template= --single-branch --depth 1 --branch v0.0.3

Cloning into '/var/folders/hw/0fc3vqbn4t34rk73tk1r9lwr0000gn/T/d20201016-18847-1n36woh'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/priteshrnandgaonkar/peertalk.git/': Could not resolve host: github.com

Then I used A Khudairy's solution and it worked very well. Thanks for everyone.

(Just reporting this because, maybe, someone can find this new error on this process and now this page can be googled with this solution)

Solution 14:^[14]

It gave me the same error and also said:

*Please try again manually: "cd ./myApp/ios && pod install"*

which I did. It turned out that my CocoaPods version is below the required version. Your problem could also be this.

*[!] `React` requires CocoaPods version `>= 1.10.1`, which is not satisfied by your current version, `1.9.1`.*

Then i upgraded the Cocoapods by:

brew upgrade cocoapods

Solution 15:^[15]

finally, for my case, it can work by:

Try to open up Xcode, and it will ask to install the required dependencies/component for it to work (usually due to some update)
Install / Reinstall Cocoapods, type sudo gem install cocoapods
Try npx react-native init AwesomeProject hopefully it works :)

Solution 16:^[16]

Removing environment variable LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS in ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc solve it for me.

Then in terminal use source ~/.bashrc or source ~/.zshrc to make those changes in the terminal session.

Solution 17:^[17]

WARNING: pod update is dangerous because you'd update all of your dependencies to the latest version

For me doing pod update instead of pod install worked!

I was getting an error with Flipper-Glog

CocoaPods could not find compatible versions for pod "Flipper-Glog": In Podfile: Flipper-Glog (= 0.5.0.4)

Running pod install manually after the npx react-native init failed to install was not working so I added pod update and it installed not only Flipper-Glog but also all the others successfully.

Solution 18:^[18]

I have tried above all possible solution but failed:

then i made some changes and it worked perfectly.

just goto project/ios/podfile

open podfile and add bellow line

use_flipper!() --> just underneath/below to this line

use_flipper!({'Flipper' => '0.125.0'}) --> // you need to add this line

you can get help from this link below

https://fbflipper.com/docs/getting-started/react-native-ios/

Solution 19:^[19]

in my case, I just cd into ios in my project folder and run bundle install

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