Codemagic CI/CD: file cannot be found: '/Users/builder/clone/ios/.symlinks/plugins/rive_native/native/build/iphoneos/bin/release/librive_native.a'

[falzfalzfalz]

Description

Hello, i've recently added Rive to my codebase, everything works fine locally when building but they have a special build time configuration hidden by the compiler. I'vd been getting this error in my build. Any idea how to fix this ?

This is the error:
Error (Xcode): Build input file cannot be found: '/Users/builder/clone/ios/.symlinks/plugins/rive_native/native/build/iphoneos/bin/release/librive_native.a'. Did you forget to declare this file as an output of a script phase or custom build rule which produces it?

Steps To Reproduce

Build steps of the CI

1. Install Flutter and SDKs
2. Install pods
3. Generate code with build runner
4. Android build is working with flutter build appbundle
5. iOS build is not working with flutter build ipa

Expected behavior

Both builds to complete

Device & Versions (please complete the following information)

• Device: [e.g. Android Emulator, iOS Simulator]
• OS: [e.g. Android SDK API Level 30, iOS 14.5]
• Flutter Version: Copy-paste the output of flutter --version
  e.g.:

Flutter 3.32.8 • channel stable
Tools • Dart 3.8.1

[HayesGordon]

This is similar to this response: #495 (comment)

We hook into the platform build step and run: dart run rive_native:setup --verbose --clean --platform ios, on iOS for example.

But this appears to not allways be working in all the environments. I think there is something we can do better for iOS and macOS to avoid this.

But for now, I'd recommend just always executing the script manually, especially in a CI environment. You can provide multiple platforms, too, for example:

dart run rive_native:setup --verbose --clean --platform macos,windows,linux

[falzfalzfalz]

@HayesGordon, would you happen to have a bash command in mind to verify rive_native is added to the environment correctly and configured before running an expensive CD pipeline ? For context, the CD in codemagic runs on Apple Mac Mini M2 machines and the latest OS. Thanks.

[HayesGordon]

@HayesGordon, would you happen to have a bash command in mind to verify rive_native is added to the environment correctly and configured before running an expensive CD pipeline ? For context, the CD in codemagic runs on Apple Mac Mini M2 machines and the latest OS. Thanks.

I don't have a bash command handy, but the script should copy-paste the Windows/Linux/macOS libs in /build/rive_native/native/build relative to the app root directory. So, if you see any libs there, then it means things should be ready.

Otherwise, you can see if you can find our marker file in the correct location within the rive_native package, wherever it is downloaded as a Pub package.

For example, macOS:

ls /Users/gordon/.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/rive_native-0.0.7/macos/rive_marker_macos_setup_complete

Or you can run this (Windows as an example):

dart run rive_native:setup --platform windows 

Which will output something like this if the libraries are already there:

Building package executable... 
Built rive_native:setup.
[rive_native]   Starting Rive Native Setup...

[rive_native]   rive_native libraries already present for windows. Not building/downloading libraries.
[rive_native]   
[rive_native]   To force a rebuild/download, run with `--clean`

Note, though, that running this script isn't computationally expensive, unless you pass the --build flag, which will build everything. Otherwise, it will just download the libs from our CDN.

[PieterAelse]

I also had to add the command to our BitRise CI. So that's a bit unfortunate, but I found this ticket before the Rive upgrade got in.

But in the future it will not be needed anymore?

[HayesGordon]

@PieterAelse, the command always needs to run. However, it may be unnecessary if we can update the build actions to run the command for you automatically.

[nqhhdev]

❌ error: Build input file cannot be found: '/Users/[REDACTED]/git/ios/.symlinks/plugins/rive_native/native/build/iphoneos/bin/release/librive_native.a'. Did you forget to declare this file as an output of a script phase or custom build rule which produces it? (in target 'rive_native' from project 'Pods')

Flutter version: 3.32.8

rive: ^0.14.0-dev.8

I have the same issue on Bitrise. Any update?

[HayesGordon]

❌ error: Build input file cannot be found: '/Users/[REDACTED]/git/ios/.symlinks/plugins/rive_native/native/build/iphoneos/bin/release/librive_native.a'. Did you forget to declare this file as an output of a script phase or custom build rule which produces it? (in target 'rive_native' from project 'Pods')

Flutter version: 3.32.8

rive: ^0.14.0-dev.8
I have the same issue on Bitrise. Any update?

@nqhhdev are you running: dart run rive_native:setup --verbose --clean --platform ios?