Cocoapods: pod install fails on Apple Silicone M1 Mac

[helloniklas]

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What did you do?

Run pod install on a MacBook Air with M1.

What did you expect to happen?

Install all pod dependencies correctly.

What happened instead?

LoadError - dlopen(/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.12.2/lib/ffi_c.bundle, 0x0009): missing compatible arch in /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.12.2/lib/ffi_c.bundle - /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/ffi-1.12.2/lib/ffi_c.bundle
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'

CocoaPods Environment

Stack

   CocoaPods : 1.10.0
        Ruby : ruby 2.6.3p62 (2019-04-16 revision 67580) [universal.arm64e-darwin20]
    RubyGems : 3.0.3
        Host : macOS 11.0.1 (20B29)
       Xcode : 12.2 (12B45b)
         Git : git version 2.24.3 (Apple Git-128)
Ruby lib dir : /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib
Repositories : cocoapods - git - https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs @ 9eb5851a030ff0171d18508d3cb94c85a7bfb9f1

               trunk - CDN - https://cdn.cocoapods.org/

Installation Source

Executable Path: /usr/local/bin/pod

Plugins

cocoapods-deintegrate : 1.0.4
cocoapods-plugins     : 1.0.0
cocoapods-search      : 1.0.0
cocoapods-stats       : 1.1.0
cocoapods-trunk       : 1.4.1
cocoapods-try         : 1.1.0

Podfile

# Uncomment the next line to define a global platform for your project
# platform :ios, '9.0'

target 'App' do
  # Comment the next line if you don't want to use dynamic frameworks
  use_frameworks!

  # Pods for App
  pod 'Amplify'
  pod 'AmplifyPlugins/AWSPinpointAnalyticsPlugin'
  pod 'AmplifyPlugins/AWSCognitoAuthPlugin'

end

[randychampagne]

I also encountered this issue while following the Ionic getting started tutorial on a Macbook Air with M1 chip. This workaround got me passed the issue but I suppose folks with more macos/ios dev experience can provide additional help.

[helloniklas]

@randychampagne many thanks, that works.

[dnkoutso]

This seems an issue with installing ffi gem on M1. At this time cocoapods depends on ffi gem but we are hoping to remove it in a future version which is the only thing that would circumvent this issue.

In the meantime please seek out alternatives on how to successfully install ffi gem within M1 environment.