"Undefined symbol: protocol descriptor for Swift.ExpressibleByFloatLiteral" issue while installing react native on macOS Big Sur

Question

I was trying to install React Native on my system, and found that it failed to install CocoaPods dependencies which is required by that template error.

sudo arch -x86_64 gem install ffi fixed this issue but ended up with event-config.h" file not found error.

I changed the changed the flipper version in pod file to use_flipper!({'Flipper'=>'0.76.0'}) and then I reached to the error mentioned above. Any help on this issue would be appreciated.

node version : 15.10.0
react-native version: 0.63.4
Xcode version: 12.4

Error description below:

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Could not find or use auto-linked library 'swiftCoreGraphics'
Could not find or use auto-linked library 'swiftUIKit'
Could not find or use auto-linked library 'swiftDarwin'
Could not find or use auto-linked library 'swiftFoundation'
Could not find or use auto-linked library 'swiftMetal'
Could not find or use auto-linked library 'swiftObjectiveC'
Could not find or use auto-linked library 'swiftCoreFoundation'
Could not find or use auto-linked library 'swiftDispatch'
Could not find or use auto-linked library 'swiftCoreImage'
Could not find or use auto-linked library 'swiftQuartzCore'
Could not find or use auto-linked library 'swiftCore'
Could not find or use auto-linked library 'swiftSwiftOnoneSupport'
Undefined symbol: protocol descriptor for Swift.ExpressibleByFloatLiteral
Undefined symbol: associated type descriptor for Swift.ExpressibleByIntegerLiteral.IntegerLiteralType

Undefined symbol: associated conformance descriptor for Swift.ExpressibleByIntegerLiteral.Swift.ExpressibleByIntegerLiteral.IntegerLiteralType: Swift._ExpressibleByBuiltinIntegerLiteral

Undefined symbol: method descriptor for Swift.ExpressibleByFloatLiteral.init(floatLiteral: A.FloatLiteralType) -> A

Undefined symbol: protocol descriptor for Swift.ExpressibleByIntegerLiteral
Undefined symbol: value witness table for Builtin.Int32
Undefined symbol: __swift_FORCE_LOAD_$_swiftCoreImage
Undefined symbol: associated type descriptor for Swift.ExpressibleByFloatLiteral.FloatLiteralType
Undefined symbol: __swift_FORCE_LOAD_$_swiftQuartzCore
Undefined symbol: __swift_FORCE_LOAD_$_swiftDispatch
Undefined symbol: method descriptor for Swift.ExpressibleByIntegerLiteral.init(integerLiteral: A.IntegerLiteralType) -> A
Undefined symbol: __swift_FORCE_LOAD_$_swiftCoreFoundation
Undefined symbol: protocol witness table for Swift.Int : Swift._ExpressibleByBuiltinIntegerLiteral in Swift
Undefined symbol: __swift_FORCE_LOAD_$_swiftObjectiveC
Undefined symbol: __swift_FORCE_LOAD_$_swiftCoreGraphics
Undefined symbol: _swift_getForeignTypeMetadata
Undefined symbol: __swift_FORCE_LOAD_$_swiftFoundation
Undefined symbol: associated conformance descriptor for Swift.ExpressibleByFloatLiteral.Swift.ExpressibleByFloatLiteral.FloatLiteralType: Swift._ExpressibleByBuiltinFloatLiteral
Undefined symbol: __swift_FORCE_LOAD_$_swiftUIKit
Undefined symbol: __swift_FORCE_LOAD_$_swiftMetal
Undefined symbol: Swift.Float.init(Swift.Double) -> Swift.Float
Undefined symbol: __swift_FORCE_LOAD_$_swiftDarwin
Undefined symbol: protocol witness table for Swift.Float : Swift._ExpressibleByBuiltinFloatLiteral in Swift

Solution 1

You need to exclude architecture arm64 if you are using M1 mac.

Also add this code at the end of the pod file

post_install do |installer|
    installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
      target.build_configurations.each do |config|
        config.build_settings["ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH"] = "NO"
      end
    end
  end

Do pod install, Clean the build folder and restart the build it will resolve the issue.

Solution 2

What really worked for me, only add this Excluded Architectures and you will be fine, if you are using a Mac with M1 of course

Solution 3

I managed to resolve this issue by adding an empty swift file to the project in Xcode. This had the side effect of creating a bridging header file which (for me at least) got my project to compile.

Comments

[Nirmal Dalmia]

Why isn't this an accepted answer! I was struggling with the problem for hours and this solution just works!

[Felipe Esteves]

I didn't need to add the podfile stuff. it works like a charm!

[Nicolas Braun]

When doing so, node fails to launch. Maybe because it's trying to launch an x86 version of. it ? Any idea? env: node: No such file or directory

[yansusanto]

This is to confirm that it works for XCode 13 on M1 Mac. And this should be the accepted answer.

[Minhaz Panara]

This resolved my issue.

[Akila Devinda]

@NicolasBraun I'm having the same issue. DId you try to solve that ?

[Yurij]

@AkilaDevinda, just do brew install node and it will be fixed.

[Yurij]

I wonder, why do we should exclude arm64 when building on M1 Macs?

[Dror Bar]

I have this issue but I don't have a Mac with M1 (have Intel chip)

[Dipan Sharma]

@DrorBar can you please post the whole error you are facing ?

[Dror Bar]

@DipanSharma It is the same as original poster. Regardless, after a couple of hours, searching and trying many suggestions, I finally managed to solve it by following step by step the following helpful comment: github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/…