Builds broken due to changes in rive-runtime

[bjartebore]

Description

Our build pipeline started failing today with the error Error (Xcode): Undefined symbol: rive::Vec2D::transformMat2D(rive::Vec2D const&, rive::Mat2D const&).

Looking into this it seems to be due to changes in https://github.com/rive-app/rive-runtime.

The update_dependencies.sh in rive_common fetches the HEAD of main from https://github.com/rive-app/rive-runtime for each time we do a clean build, something that often happens in pipelines. The github dependencies should be locked to taged versions or a hash to avoid breaking changes in dependencies.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Run flutter pub cache clean
2. Create flutter project
3. Add rive
4. Add reference to rive
5. build app with flutter build ipa
6. See error ⚠️

Device & Versions (please complete the following information)

• Device: Android and iOS

• Flutter Version:

Flutter 3.27.3 • channel stable • git@github.com:flutter/flutter.git
Framework • revision c519ee916e (3 days ago) • 2025-01-21 10:32:23 -0800
Engine • revision e672b006cb
Tools • Dart 3.6.1 • DevTools 2.40.2

[bjartebore]

Here is a simple fix to mitigate the issue until it is fixed, run this script after flutter pub get

import 'dart:io';
import 'dart:isolate';

void main() async {
  var uri = Uri.parse('package:rive_common/rive_common.dart');
  var packageRoot = await Isolate.resolvePackageUri(uri);

  if (packageRoot != null) {
    var dir = File(packageRoot.toFilePath()).parent.parent;
    var file = File('${dir.path}/update_dependencies.sh');
    // Modify the dependency to use a specific commit
    var contents = await file.readAsString();
    final replaceText = 'git clone https://github.com/rive-app/rive-cpp';
    var modifiedContents = contents.replaceAll(
      RegExp('$replaceText(.*)'),
      '$replaceText && git -C ./rive-cpp checkout 93054af1389039f8c51f77aea17ae4757c838a33',
    );

    await file.writeAsString(modifiedContents);
  }
}

[mtwichel]

I just want to share our team all also had this issue, and @bjartebore's script worked for us as a work-around. Thanks for doing that!

[HayesGordon]

I am closing this issue as we have updated the entire build process for Rive Flutter in version 0.14.0-dev.1. Now, we distribute prebuilt native libraries; however, you still have the option to build them yourself.

You can read more here:

• Migration Guide
• Rive Native for Flutter
• Rive Flutter Docs

If you're having issues updating to the latest, please open a new issue with reproducible steps.